AP Lang. Syntax Practice
Authored by Kevin Lentz
English
11th Grade
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This quiz focuses on syntactic analysis and rhetorical devices within the context of AP Language and Composition, targeting 11th-grade students preparing for advanced placement coursework. The questions assess students' ability to identify and categorize various sentence structures, rhetorical devices, and grammatical patterns that are fundamental to sophisticated writing analysis. Students must demonstrate mastery of classical rhetorical figures such as chiasmus, antithesis, and anaphora, while also recognizing structural elements like periodic and cumulative sentences, inverted syntax, and triadic constructions. The quiz requires students to distinguish between basic sentence types (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory) and more complex structural classifications (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex). To succeed, students need a solid foundation in grammatical terminology, an understanding of how authors manipulate sentence structure for rhetorical effect, and the analytical skills to recognize patterns in famous quotations from figures like JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. Created by Kevin Lentz, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 11. This quiz serves as targeted practice for students preparing for the syntactic analysis components of the AP Language and Composition examination. Teachers can deploy this assessment as a diagnostic tool at the beginning of a rhetoric unit to gauge students' familiarity with advanced grammatical concepts, or as formative assessment during instruction on sentence structure and rhetorical devices. The quiz works effectively as homework reinforcement after lessons on syntax and style, allowing students to practice identifying the sophisticated sentence structures they encounter in complex texts. It also functions well as a warm-up activity before analyzing challenging prose passages or as review material before AP practice exams. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.3.A and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4, which emphasize understanding how authors use syntax and rhetorical devices to achieve specific effects and convey meaning in literature and informational texts.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What special type of sentence is the following: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
chiasmus
anaphora
inverted
rhetorical
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What special type of sentence is the following: "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools"
chiasmus
antithesis
interrogative
triadic
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What special type of sentence is the following: "What happens to a dream deferred?"
antithesis
periodic
cumulative
rhetorical question
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What special type of sentence is the following: After shopping at the mall, walking the dogs, and washing the car, I finally got to stay in and relax.
cumulative
inverted
periodic
imperative
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What special type of sentence is the following: "I came; I saw; I conquered."
chiasmus
antithesis
triadic
inverted
Tags
CCSS.L.2.1F
CCSS.L.1.1J
CCSS.L.7.1B
CCSS.L.3.1I
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What special type of sentence is the following: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessing; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
inverted
cumulative
triadic
parallel
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.1A
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What special type of sentence is the following: Down that dark path sits the haunted house.
inverted
cumulative
chiasmus
interrogative
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.L.11-12.3
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