This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap Language Vocabulary – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap Language Vocabulary Quiz 1 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting similarity A) Oxymoron. B) Invective. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 2. Used to describe fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking A) Didactic. B) Anaphora. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Didactic. 3. What is the antonym of "reprehensible" ? A) Immoral. B) Sinful. C) Honorable. D) Obvious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Honorable. 4. Evince A) To display clearly, to make evident, toprovoke. B) Having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity. C) A word, phrase, statement, or ideahas more than one meaning or canbe understood in more than one way. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To display clearly, to make evident, toprovoke. 5. Comparing two different things using the words like, as, or than to show how they're similar A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Figurative language. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 6. Pretended; disguised A) Compulsive. B) Duplicitous. C) Feigned. D) Ephemeral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Feigned. 7. Theoretical; lacking substance (the opposite of concrete) A) Hypothetical. B) Eccentric. C) Disdain. D) Abstract. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypothetical. 8. Extravagant; wasteful A) Guile. B) Prodigal. C) Hypocritical. D) Eccentric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prodigal. 9. A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. A) Loose sentence. B) Periodic sentence. C) Cumulative sentence. D) Balanced sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Periodic sentence. 10. My response to their comments what a simply a ..... shrug of my shoulders. A) Contemplative. B) Peril. C) Resigned. D) Elegiac. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resigned. 11. A manner of viewing things; a particular attitude a matter A) Figure of speech. B) Point of view. C) Tone. D) Detail. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point of view. 12. Many people are feeling ..... about the idea of the coronavirus ..... becoming a pandemic. A) Contempt/ diligently. B) Apprehensive/ subtly. C) Benevolent/ inevitably. D) Apprehensive/ inevitably. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apprehensive/ inevitably. 13. Used for commands A) Imperative mood. B) Indicative mood. C) Mood. D) Subjective mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imperative mood. 14. Shining brightly A) Resplendent. B) Poignant. C) Epicure. D) Bolster. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resplendent. 15. Imaginative language not meant to be taken literally A) Figurative language. B) Analogy. C) Apostrophe. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 16. The easiest poetic device to identify is ..... A) Alliteration. B) Contemplative. C) Surly. D) Ascetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 17. If something is farfetched or unlikely, it is ..... A) Impulsive. B) Impossible. C) Impunity. D) Implausible. E) Immature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Implausible. 18. A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words A) Mood. B) Invective. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Description. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 19. Having a sullen or gloomy disposition A) Morose. B) Wry. C) Effusive. D) Immersion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Morose. 20. That part of grammar that treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations A) Syntax. B) Satire. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. 21. To belittle or discredit A) Innuendo. B) Wry. C) Disparage. D) Admonition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Disparage. 22. Someone who is ..... gives orders in a way that shows they feel superior or more important than other people. A) Sordid. B) Dubious. C) Kind-hearted. D) Imperious. E) Rebuff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imperious. 23. The use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Figure of speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 24. The judge ruled that the jury made a ..... decision. A) Combative. B) Haughty. C) Feign. D) Capricious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Capricious. 25. The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive A) Euphemism. B) Didactic. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 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