This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap English Language – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap English Language Quiz 38 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How to speak and write persuasively A) Tone. B) Rhetoric. C) Ethos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetoric. 2. "His ears perked up when he heard his name" is an example of metonymy because A) Ears are associated with hearing. B) Names are usually auditory. C) His ears physically moved. D) He didn't actually hear his name. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ears are associated with hearing. 3. "I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." -J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understatement. 4. Which term describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both, and is easier to determine in spoken language than in written language? A) Tone. B) Transition. C) Wit. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 5. What skill is developed in AP English Language that helps students understand information from charts and graphs? A) Memorization. B) Inferring information. C) Artistic drawing. D) Physical endurance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inferring information. 6. What rhetorical device is being used?"We will pass the STAAR test! We will achieve commended! We will celebrate by eating donuts!" A) Anecdote. B) Alliteration. C) Paradox. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 7. What is an aphorism? A) A figure of speech that addresses an absent or imaginary person. B) A terse statement expressing a general truth or moral principle. C) A grammatical unit containing a subject and a verb. D) The emotional mood created by a literary work. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A terse statement expressing a general truth or moral principle. 8. The AP Multiple Choice portion tests ..... A) How well you can read. B) How well you can analyze passages for their use of rhetoric. C) How well you can write an essay. D) How well you can understand spanish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How well you can analyze passages for their use of rhetoric. 9. Which of the following tone words could NOT be a synonym for happy? A) Amiable. B) Amicable. C) Ecstatic. D) Artificial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Artificial. 10. Weirdly normal A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 11. What does the term 'antecedent' refer to in grammar? A) A word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. B) A rhetorical device involving repetition. C) A comparison between two different things. D) A short narrative detailing an interesting episode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. 12. Which term describes the repetition of words in reverse order? A) Anaphora. B) Antithesis. C) Antimetabole/Chiasmus. D) Asyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antimetabole/Chiasmus. 13. What is 'rhetorical question'? A) Appealing to emotion. B) A figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute. C) A question presented by the author that is not meant to be answered. D) An apparently self-contradictory statement, the underlying meaning of which is revealed only by careful scrutiny. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A question presented by the author that is not meant to be answered. 14. Fill in the blank:Logos is the appeal to ..... and reason. A) Logic. B) Emotion. C) Authority. D) Tradition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logic. 15. A score of '3' on an AP Exam typically means a student is: A) Not qualified for college credit. B) Possibly qualified for college credit. C) Qualified for college credit at many schools. D) Extremely well qualified for college credit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Qualified for college credit at many schools. 16. A sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast is called a ..... (Example:George Orwell: "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." ) A) Balanced sentence. B) Loose sentence. C) Periodic sentence. D) Cumulative sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Balanced sentence. 17. Fill in the blank: ..... is a conclusion based on premises or evidence. A) Inference. B) Assumption. C) Prediction. D) Observation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inference. 18. Sensory details or figurative language used to describe or arouse emotion and appeals to the reader or audience's senses. A) Imagery. B) Inference. C) Irony. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 19. A sentence with two or more principal clauses and one or more subordinate clauses is called a ..... A) Compound-complex sentence. B) Simple sentence. C) Complex sentence. D) Compound sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compound-complex sentence. 20. The writer wants to add the following sentence to the third paragraph (sentences 6-9) to provide additional explanation.This means that the United States must convert to metric units whenever it is dealing with the rest of the world.Where would the sentence best be placed? A) Before sentence 6. B) After sentence 6. C) After sentence 7. D) After sentence 8. E) After sentence 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After sentence 6. 21. What do we call timed writing number 1? A) Synthesis. B) Rhetorical analysis. C) Argument. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synthesis. 22. Many stories begin with this to supply the reader with essential background information. A) Hyperbole. B) Allusion. C) Classification. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exposition. 23. Chose the device that matches the definition.Writing in praise of a dead person, most often inscribed upon a headstone A) Epitaph. B) Eulogy. C) Elegy. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epitaph. 24. A personal story told within a narrative A) Analogy. B) Allusion. C) Antecedent. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anecdote. 25. Which rhetorical device is used in the example 'It was the best of times; it was the worst of times'? A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Anaphora. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesAp English Language Quiz 1Ap English Language Quiz 2Ap English Language Quiz 3Ap English Language Quiz 4Ap English Language Quiz 5Ap English Language Quiz 6Ap English Language Quiz 7Ap English Language Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books