This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap Language Terms – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap Language Terms Quiz 3 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Tell me pacifically what she said." A) Euphemism. B) Malapropism. C) Syntax. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Malapropism. 2. A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" is the definition of A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 3. An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes. It borrows words or phrases from an original and pokes fun at it. A) Parody. B) Clause. C) Pun. D) Classicism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parody. 4. An imitation of a person, situation, or event that is intended to be humorous but that may also reveal a truth about that person, situation, or event. A) Parody. B) Idiom. C) Personification. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parody. 5. What rhetorical device is used in: "We are the people in a quandary about the present. We are the people in search of our future. We are the people in search of a national community. We are the people." A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Parallelism. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 6. Grammatical arrangement of words. the grouping of words. A) Tone. B) Diction. C) Allusion. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syntax. 7. Example: "She's the pineapple of perfection." A) Malapropism. B) Anaphora. C) Allusion. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malapropism. 8. Means persuading by the use of reasoning, using true premises and valid arguments. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 9. To mention or reference a person, event, place, or thing in text. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Didactic. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 10. Example: "When I was your age, we didn't even have the internet." A) Allusion. B) Flashback. C) Assonance. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 11. Means being convinced by the credibility of the author. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 12. The effective use communication in speaking or writing is called A) Chatting. B) Rhetoric. C) Essay. D) Speaking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetoric. 13. Nomenclature A) Religious order. B) Type of government. C) Piece of jewelry. D) System of naming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) System of naming. 14. What is Synecdoche? A) A form of understatement often involving double negatives. B) A part of something used to represent the whole or vice versa. C) The repetition of similar sounds within nearby words. D) A literary device that depicts a shift from past to present. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A part of something used to represent the whole or vice versa. 15. Example: "I'll just have to grin and bear it." A) Aphorism. B) Hyperbole. C) Euphemism. D) Colloquialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphemism. 16. When the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc, knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out. A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic irony. 17. Making an implied comparison, not using like, as, or other such words A) Simile. B) Metonymy. C) Metaphor. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 18. Jargon is the diction used by groups which partake in a similar profession or activity A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. What is Malapropism? A) An incorrect word used humorously in place of a similar-sounding one. B) An over-the-top exaggeration for emphasis or humor. C) The deliberate juxtaposition of opposing ideas. D) The blending of multiple words to create a new one. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An incorrect word used humorously in place of a similar-sounding one. 20. Example: "The leaves danced joyfully in the breeze." A) Anthropomorphism. B) Pathetic Fallacy. C) Chiasmus. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathetic Fallacy. 21. Mimicry A) Happiness. B) Sadness. C) Silence. D) Imitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imitation. 22. Example: "He's a real Romeo with the ladies." A) Allusion. B) Euphemism. C) Synecdoche. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 23. Example: "I'm feeling a bit under the weather." A) Synecdoche. B) Pathetic Fallacy. C) Colloquialism. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Colloquialism. 24. What is a Portmanteau? A) A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. B) The substitution of a related term for the object itself. C) A word formed by blending two or more words. D) A brief, clever statement about life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A word formed by blending two or more words. 25. The attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea. A) Euphemism. B) Personification. C) Satire. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 26. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." -From Macbeth A) Antithesis. B) Chiasmus. C) Maxim. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chiasmus. 27. What is Colloquialism? A) A casual or conversational word or expression specific to a region or culture. B) A deliberate understatement for ironic effect. C) A figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole. D) The blending of two words to form a new one. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A casual or conversational word or expression specific to a region or culture. 28. The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations. A) Diction. B) Vernacular. C) Syntax. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Denotation. 29. Means persuading by appealing to the reader's emotion A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 30. Uses a short story or life experience as an example to support a point. A) Anaphora. B) Anecdote. C) Parallelism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anecdote. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesAp Language Terms Quiz 1Ap Language Terms Quiz 2Ap Language Terms Quiz 4Ap Language Terms Quiz 5Ap Language Terms Quiz 6Ap English Language QuizAp Language And Composition QuizAp Language Synthesis QuizAp Language Vocabulary Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books