This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap Language And Composition – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap Language And Composition Quiz 12 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Expository A) Explanatory. B) Constant; without variety. C) Safe from harm; protected. D) Having keen understanding; discerning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Explanatory. 2. Repetition of initial consonant sounds: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 3. Immune A) Safe from harm; protected. B) Shallow; on the surface only. C) To support; to prop up. D) Constant; without variety. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Safe from harm; protected. 4. Superficial A) Shallow; on the surface only. B) To intimidate; to discourage. C) Explanatory. D) Safe from harm; protected. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shallow; on the surface only. 5. Choose the part of speech for each vocabulary word. Word:Ephemeral is a ..... A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjective. 6. The constant mention of the Devil's book and the required signatories in Act IV is an example of: A) A persuasive logical argument against the existence of witchcraft. B) The pervasive use of non sequitur in the court's thinking. C) A satirical critique of bureaucracy and the perversion of legal process. D) An emotional appeal (Pathos) to the citizens' desire for public transparency. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The pervasive use of non sequitur in the court's thinking. 7. After losing an important game, Jackson sat quietly, his shoulders slumped and his eyes downcast. Which word best names a tone showing sadness and low spirits after a setback? A) Dejected. B) Audacious. C) Insolent. D) Facetious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dejected. 8. When a speaker offers clear, reasonable and rational ideas to an audience and backs them up with facts, statistics or expert testimony; he or she is using- A) The appeal of ethos. B) The appeal of logos. C) His or her persona. D) The appeal of pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The appeal of logos. 9. What does juxtaposition achieve in writing? A) Creates contrast, emphasizes meaning, or reveals unexpected relationships. B) Establishes trust, expertise, or moral authority. C) Explains, informs, or analyzes ideas. D) Uses specific examples to clarify an idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Creates contrast, emphasizes meaning, or reveals unexpected relationships. 10. What is the term for a rhetorical device that involves a direct address to an absent or imaginary person, or to a personified abstraction? A) Apostrophe. B) Metonymy. C) Synecdoche. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 11. A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second A) Chiasmus. B) Antithesis. C) Apostrophe. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chiasmus. 12. Shallow; on the surface only A) Superficial. B) Lucid. C) Immune. D) Aesthetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Superficial. 13. Innovate A) To be creative; to introduce something new. B) Unclear; clouded; partially hidden; hard to understand. C) Having more than one meaning; vague. D) Lack of emotion or interest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To be creative; to introduce something new. 14. How long will you have to write your three essays? A) 2 hours. B) 3 hours. C) 2 hours 15 minutes. D) 4 hours 30 minutes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2 hours 15 minutes. 15. In which part of the argumentative essay will you include your evidence? A) Introduction. B) Body Paragraph. C) Hook. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Body Paragraph. 16. Choose the part of speech for each vocabulary word. Word:Rectify is a ..... A) Verb. B) Noun. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verb. 17. In order to score at least a 4 on the AP rubric, you MUST cite how many different sources? A) 3 sources. B) All of them. C) 5 sources. D) 2 sources. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3 sources. 18. Choose the best describing antonym for each vocabulary word. Word:Factious A) Quarrelsome. B) Divided. C) United. D) Chaotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) United. 19. A reference to something outside of a literary work, like a Bible story or verse. A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Mood. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 20. How do you start your call to action? A) You should know . B) Everyone should . C) You will . D) I want you to know . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Everyone should . 21. What does "diction" refer to? A) The part of a rhetorical situation that provokes a writer. B) The sensory, emotional, or cultural associations of a word. C) The specific word choices writers make to convey their ideas. D) The presentation of two things as similar based on common attributes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The specific word choices writers make to convey their ideas. 22. Which of these is NOT a good way to use commentary in an essay? A) Analysis of a quote. B) Hypothetical detail. C) Anecdote. D) Restate the quoted material. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Restate the quoted material. 23. The three parts of the Aristotelian triangle are: A) Ethos, pathos, logos. B) Speaker, audience, context. C) Speaker, audience, subject. D) Audience, occasion, subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker, audience, subject. 24. Ephemeral A) The rainbow was beautiful but ephemeral, lasting only a few minutes. B) The ephemeral mountain has stood for centuries. C) He ephemeralized his backpack before school. D) The ephemeral dog barked all night long. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The rainbow was beautiful but ephemeral, lasting only a few minutes. 25. What does dialect reveal in rhetorical analysis? A) Voice, cultural identity, or the author's purpose in character depiction. B) A brief reference to a well-known person, place, or event. C) Deliberate exaggeration for emphasis. D) An appeal to emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voice, cultural identity, or the author's purpose in character depiction. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesAp Language And Composition Quiz 1Ap Language And Composition Quiz 2Ap Language And Composition Quiz 3Ap Language And Composition Quiz 4Ap Language And Composition Quiz 5Ap Language And Composition Quiz 6Ap Language And Composition Quiz 7Ap Language And Composition Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books