WorksheetsAP Lang Vocab Set 2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
What is a hyperbole?
A comparison using "like" or "as".
A statement that gives non-human objects human characteristics.
An exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literally.
an expressing whose meaning is different from the literal meaning.
Identify the literal meaning of the idiom in bold. After going to the zoo, the mall, and the movies, Cassie was sick of bending over backwards to entertain her nieces.
a. Cassie was doing very little to entertain her nieces.
b. Cassie was making small efforts to entertain her nieces.
c. Cassie was trying very hard to entertain her nieces.
d. Cassie was not trying at all to entertain her nieces.
Choose the correct imperative sentence according to the image:
Don´t arrive late to class!
Don´t do the homework !
Let me eat hamburgers !
It is likely that:
Which is an example of inverted syntax?
I am walking in the woods.
I walk in the woods.
In the woods I am walking.
The woods are being walked in.
What is verbal irony?
when someone says the opposite of what they mean
when the opposite of what we expect to happen, happens
when the audience knows something that the characters don't
What is situational irony?
when someone says the opposite of what they mean
when the opposite of what we expect to happen, happens.
when the audience knows something that the character don't
Why would a writer use juxtaposition?
To surprise the reader
To create startling contrasts between two objects or ideas
To control the pacing of a text
To add a sense of musicality
What is this an example of: "They don’t exactly have an ordinary relationship." ?
Litotes
Allusion
Hyperbole
Which of the following appeals to logic?
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
Which of the following appeals to emotion?
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
What is the malapropism in this example?
"Grandpa had surgery to remove the cadillacs from his eyes."
surgery
remove
cadillacs
eyes
What are the words in blue an example of?
Explain the relationship between motif and theme:
There is no connection
They are the same
Motif helps reader understand the theme
What is this an example of: We should stop using hairspray because it is snowing in New York.
hasty generalization
non sequitur
ad hominem
moral equivalence
Parody is
an in-depth study of a well known piece of work.
an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for criticism or to make a political statement.
an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
something that is in popular culture.
