This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap English Language – Quiz 42 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap English Language Quiz 42 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the rhetorical term for a word or phrase that links different ideas and signals a shift from one idea to another, often using words like furthermore, consequently, nevertheless, for example, in addition, likewise, similarly, and on the contrary? A) Transition. B) Understatement. C) Undertone. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transition. 2. If I am absent, I have . days to get my work made up from the day that I come back to school. A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 3. Which rhetorical term is defined as:'Figure of reasoning in which one or more questions is/are asked and then answered, often at length, by one and the same speaker; raising and responding to one's own question(s). A common usage is to ask the question at the beginning of a paragraph and then use the paragraph to answer it.'? A) Hypophora. B) Anaphora. C) Epistrophe. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypophora. 4. Which of the following best describes the main idea of the practice passage? A) The author's personal and cultural connection to McDonald's. B) The history of the Filet-O-Fish. C) Comparing fast food cultures in different countries. D) The global impact of McDonald's. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The author's personal and cultural connection to McDonald's. 5. What is the definition of 'epistrophe'? A) Characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. B) Tone; instructional, designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson. C) Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words. D) The literal meaning of a word, the dictionary definition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words. 6. Which of the following best describes the format of Section I of the AP English Language and Composition Exam? A) Free-response essays. B) Multiple-choice questions based on nonfiction passages. C) Oral presentations. D) Creative writing prompts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Multiple-choice questions based on nonfiction passages. 7. When words literally state the opposite of the writer/speaker's meaning. A) Irony. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Situational Irony. D) Verbal Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verbal Irony. 8. What is the rhetorical device called that involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses? A) Juxtaposition. B) Anaphora. C) Allusion. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 9. Joan Didion, "On Self-Respect" (1961)"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth is potentially to have everything:the ability to discriminate, to love, and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference." Didion's argument relies primarily on: A) Moral reasoning. B) Emotional appeal. C) Personal narrative. D) Empirical evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moral reasoning. 10. Which sentence best describes argument writing? A) The author's personal opinion to persuade someone to do something. B) Expressing a point of view on a subject and supporting it with evidence. C) Main idea that you think of, and then back it up with your own beliefs. D) When you tell the reader what he or she should do in a certain situation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expressing a point of view on a subject and supporting it with evidence. 11. What part of the timed writing will score the most points? A) Introduction. B) Body. C) Conclusion. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Body. 12. What rhetorical device is being used?"I lie down by the side of my bride" A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 13. On Laziness" (Christopher Morley, 1876)"If you have ever been in love, you will know that it is much easier to rest upon a couch and dream of great deeds than to rise up and actually perform them."Morley's use of "dream of great deeds" functions to A) Mock human tendency toward procrastination. B) Criticize the arrogance of romantic ideals. C) Warn against idleness as a moral failure. D) Encourage ambition and perseverance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mock human tendency toward procrastination. 14. What do you want to do in the synthesis essay? A) Form an opinion. B) Take a position. C) Use all of the sources. D) Summarize the sources. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Take a position. 15. Which rhetorical term involves reversing the order of analogous words or phrases? A) Apostrophe. B) Chiasmus. C) Clause. D) Coherence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chiasmus. 16. An argument that assumes audience agreement about a key idea without justification. A) Circular Logic. B) Begging the Question. C) Red Herring. D) Bandwagon. E) Ad Hominem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Begging the Question. 17. A writer strengthens a causal claim MOST effectively by A) Asserting the relationship repeatedly. B) Providing a sequence of unrelated examples. C) Explaining how one factor directly leads to another. D) Appealing to shared values. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Explaining how one factor directly leads to another. 18. Opinion that an author tries to prove or defend A) Claim. B) Evidence. C) Reasons. D) Credibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Claim. 19. What is the substitution of the name for an attribute of the thing meant? A) Metonymy. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 20. When running out of time on the multiple choice portion of the AP test, it is best to ..... A) Leave the answers blank. B) Fill in every question and guess. C) Put your head down. D) Ask for more time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fill in every question and guess. 21. A sentence that reveals the dominant argument or impression of the essay A) Position. B) Exigence. C) Rhetorical triangle. D) Rhetorical analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Position. 22. Sentence used to command or enjoin. A) Hortative sentence. B) Imperative sentence. C) Complex sentence. D) Cumulative (loose) sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imperative sentence. 23. Fill in the blank:The attitude of a writer, usually implied, toward the subject or audience is called ..... A) Tone. B) Theme. C) Plot. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 24. How many multiple-choice questions are on the AP English Language exam, and how long do students have to complete them? A) 30 questions in 45 minutes. B) 45 questions in 1 hour. C) 60 questions in 1 hour 30 minutes. D) 25 questions in 30 minutes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 45 questions in 1 hour. 25. Which rhetorical appeal focuses on the credibility and character of the speaker? A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Kairos. 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