This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap Language Terms – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap Language Terms Quiz 4 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. Example: "The leaves danced joyfully in the breeze." A) Anthropomorphism. B) Pathetic Fallacy. C) Chiasmus. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathetic Fallacy. 6. Mimicry A) Happiness. B) Sadness. C) Silence. D) Imitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imitation. 7. Example: "He's a real Romeo with the ladies." A) Allusion. B) Euphemism. C) Synecdoche. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 8. Example: "I'm feeling a bit under the weather." A) Synecdoche. B) Pathetic Fallacy. C) Colloquialism. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Colloquialism. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." -From Macbeth A) Antithesis. B) Chiasmus. C) Maxim. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chiasmus. 12. 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. 13. The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations. A) Diction. B) Vernacular. C) Syntax. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Denotation. 14. 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. 15. 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. 16. When the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens. A) Paradox. B) Sarcasm. C) Hyperbole. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 17. Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human. A) Personification. B) Mood. C) Oxymoron. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 18. Word choice, particularly as an element of style. A) Diction. B) Allusion. C) Tone. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 19. A question that is asked, but the audience isn't intended to answer it is called A) Rhetorical question. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 20. A newspaper article shows a histogram displaying the average life expectancy of a certain region. Which rhetorical appeal did they use? A) Pathos. B) Exaggeration. C) Logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 21. What is Allusion? A) A direct comparison between two unlike things. B) An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work. C) The attribution of human qualities to non-human objects. D) The formation of new words by blending. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work. 22. Fallacious A) Untrue. B) Funny. C) Tasty. D) Confusing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Untrue. 23. Alter-ego A) Plain, everyday speech. B) An indirect reference to something. C) A character that is used by the author to speak the author's own thoughts. D) Ordinary or familiar type of conversation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A character that is used by the author to speak the author's own thoughts. 24. Example: "You have to take the bitter with the sweet." A) Euphemism. B) Assonance. C) Parallelism. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 25. Using words such as like or as to make a direct comparison between two different things. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Analogy. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesAp Language Terms Quiz 1Ap Language Terms Quiz 2Ap Language Terms Quiz 3Ap Language Terms Quiz 5Ap Language Terms Quiz 6Ap Language Terms Quiz 7Ap English Language QuizAp Language And Composition QuizAp Language Synthesis QuizAp Language Vocabulary Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books