"Salvation" AP Questions

The speaker in this excerpt can best be described as a person who

• has grown accustomed to lying throughout his life

• recognized early on that lying is its own punishment

• realized that telling lies inevitably results in an increasingly large web of deception

• understands the importance of telling people what they need to hear

• realized early on that his lies might go undetected by other people but never by Jesus

in Paragraph 2, what is the principle rhetorical function of the sentence, "I believed her"?

• to signal a shift from second to first person

• to stress the change from figurative language to more concrete expression

• to draw a conclusion based on the previous three sentences

• to emphasize the change in the narrator's viewpoint

• to contrast with the longer sentences that precede and follow it

Paragraph 3 contains all of the following EXCEPT

• anaphone

• parallel structure

• cumulative (loose) sentence

• periodic sentence

• figurative language

Which of the following is an example of IRONY?

• "But most of us just sat there" (Paragraph 3)

• "So he got up and was saved" (Paragraph 6)

• I wanted something to happen to me, but nothing happened" (Paragraph 7)

• "I began to be ashamed of myself" (Paragraph 11)

• "Women leaped in the air" (Paragraph 13)

As Hughes depicts him, Westley is all of the following EXCEPT

• humorous

• practical

• reflective

• deceitful

• cynical

"Waves of rejoicing swept the place" (Paragraph 13) is an example of

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

• metonymy

• apostrophe

What is the effect of the structure of the final sentence in the piece?

• Its length indicates the importance of the ideas the older speaker is expressing.

• Its loose structure shows the confusion of thoughts overwhelming the young speaker.

• Its figurative language suggests that the young speaker will become a writer.

• Its grammatical incorrectness indicates the speaker's uncertainty about how he feels.

• Its repeated use of coordinating conjunctions illustrates the immaturity of the speaker.