Unit 2 AP Lang Vocabulary Quiz

Two items, ideas, characters, etc placed side by side for comparison. Sometimes intentional, Sometimes Not.

• Oxymoron
• Juxtaposition
• Allegory
• Litotes

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

One of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences.

• Apostrophe
• Anaphora
• Aphorism
• Ambiguity

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What do the images of a violet past its prime, sable-colored hair that is now white, and trees that are barren of leaves symbolize?

• Old age and the passage of time

• Springtime and new life

• These images symbolize nothing

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which of the following excerpts from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is a symbolism example?

• I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence

• I doubted if I should ever come back.

• Then took the other [road], as just as fair, / And having perhaps the better claim, / Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which of the following excerpts from Robert Frost’s poem “Birches” contains examples of onomatopoeia?

• When I see birches bend to left and right

  Across the lines of straighter darker trees,

  I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.

• But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay

  As ice-storms do. Often you must have seen them

  Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning

  After a rain.

• They click upon themselves

  As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored

  As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

Which of the following lines from Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” contains a metaphor?

• “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

• “But thy eternal summer shall not fade”

• “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see”

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is the function of the following rhetorical question from Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”?

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

• Shakespeare wasn’t sure if a summer’s day was an appropriate comparison, and wanted validation that it would be a good metaphor.

• This first line of the sonnet proposes a possible metaphor for the author’s beloved, and the rest of the sonnet carries out the implications of this possibility.

• The lover described in the poem is so clearly the opposite of a summer day that the comparison is laughable.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Which words are an example of anaphora in this quote from Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech?

Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

• Slums and ghettos

• Mississippi…Alabama…South Carolina…Georgia…Louisiana

• Go back to

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CCSS.SL.11-12.3

Which of the following Oscar Wilde statements is a paradox?

• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

• All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

• I can resist everything except temptation.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is the function of the juxtaposition of Othello’s darker skin color with Desdemona’s lighter skin color?

• To imply that Othello is somehow evil while Desdemona is completely innocent.

• To incite the anger of Desdemona’s father and other Venetian statesmen.

• To create suspicion about Othello’s moral character.

• All of these.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6