WorksheetsAP Vocabulary Review 5
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
prove that (someone) is wrong, deny or contradict (a statement or accusation)
refute
recapitulate
ostracize
palatial
Which phrases are examples of anaphora in the following passage?
'Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness'.
let us fight
to do away with
all men’s happiness
both a and b
Repetition is a _________ used rhetorical device
rarely
frequently
occasionally
uncommonly
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: we have not only the fingerprints, the lack of an alibi, a clear motive, and an expressed desire to commit the robbery… We also have video of the suspect breaking in. The case could not be more open and shut."
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
What is rhetoric?
The art of war
The art of disagreement
The art of persuasion
The art of logic
Which of these would be an argument using pathos?
Statistics about an athlete
Kobe Bryant promoting Call of Duty
A political poll about the economy
A picture of malnourished animals
What is the best definition for repetition?
repeating a specific phrase to add rhythm or structure
repeating a word or phrase to add emphasis
word choice that is used to make the reader feel a specific emotion
referring to well-known people, books, or institutions
What is the best definition for rhetorical questions?
Repeating a specific phrase to add structure or rhythm.
Repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.
Comparing two unlike things for emphasis.
A question that has an obvious answer, only used to further an argument
“Nory was a Catholic because her mother was a Catholic, and Nory’s mother was a Catholic because her father was a Catholic, and her father was a Catholic because his mother was a Catholic, or had been.”
Personification
Euphemism
Repetition
Alliteration
What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:
"The nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
analogy
charged language
parallelism
antithesis
Which rhetorical device is:
Will we be extremists
for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or
for the extension of justice?
analogy
allusion
antithesis
rhetorical questions
Which rhetorical device is used in the following sentence?
"Cars have made life far more convenient for us, but at what cost?"
rhetorical question
parenthesis
metaphor
euphemism
Which of the following best describes the main purpose of satire?
to be funny
to encourage people to rebel
to make people angry
to bring about change
Which movie about a green ogre is actually a satire of the fairy tale genre?
The Muppets
Shrek
What is satire.
Often not very entertaining
A literary device used to create change through the use of sarcasm, humor, and ridicule.
No longer a popular form of writing
All of the above
If we ban Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars, so we should not ban Hummers.
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalization
Circular Argument
Red Herring
A writer's style includes all of the following elements except:
sentence structure
subject matter
figures of speech
word choice
What is tone?
a type of figure of speech
a form of poetry
the changes that occur in a character
the attitude of an author
Describing a character as pale and gaunt suggests a tone of
happiness
joy
concern
admiration
Repetition is...
When the author hints at events yet to happen in a story
The same thing again
Recurs throughout the story and helps develop theme
The mode of narration
Symbolism is...
Conversation between two or more people
Using symbols to represent concepts or idea
Exaggeration to prove a point
Contrast between how things seem and how they really are
Tone is...
Overall mood and message
The same thing again
Comparing two things saying one is another
Previous events split up the present happenings
Synecdoche is defined as....
A figure of speech in which a part is used to
signify the whole.
When we hint at something and expect the other person to understand what we are referencing.
which is an example of a synecdoche?
using the 5 senses to convey an image to the reader
repeating the same consonant sound
using the word sails to refer to the actual boat
using the phrase old man to refer to your father
Which of the following statements is true?
Synecdoche is often used within literature to keep a natural conversational style.
Synecdoche is a type of figure of speech which is not literal.
Synecdoche is using a part of something to represent the whole thing.
All of the statements are true
In the following sentence, what word is an example of synecdoche? 'Dan loves to take his boat out on the waves.'
Dan
waves
out
boat
What is Syntax?
Syntax is the part of linguistics that studies the meaning of linguistic expressions.
Syntax is the part of linguistics that studies the rules governing the inflection, composition and derivation of words.
Syntax is the arrangement of words and phrases in a specific order.
Writers make use of parallelism in the literature of syntax?
True.
False.
Writers vary the structure of their sentences and phrases because it is a powerful way to convey what to the reader?
meaning
emotion
emphasis
[all of the responses]
The opposite of the author's claim or the opposing argument is called the ______.
credible source
Support evidence
claim
counterclaim
In argument writing, the author's purpose is to:
entertain
persuade
inform
direct
Gets an A on test and says "I did OK on that test."
Idiom
Understatment
Hyperbole
Imagery
What is an understatement?
A comparison using "like" or "as".
A statement that gives non-human objects human characteristics.
A statement that creter humor by saying something less significant than it is.
an expressing whose meaning is different from the literal meaning.
Which of the following is true about author's language? Select TWO correct answers.
author's use voice to create their own unique style
all author's use the same voice
author's use voice to contribute to the purpose of the text
an author's voice has no effect on the purpose of their text
author's voice requires volume control
Voice---
is the reader's feelings about a text
is created by the reader and the author
belongs to the reader
is the author's personality and expression
What voice is the author using in this excerpt from The Misadventures of Don Quixote?
He had a tired old horse that couldn't run fast anymore, but when Don Quixote saw him in the corral, in his mind's eye, it was the finest horse any knight could want. He named his horse Rocinante, because in Spanish rocin means "old nag," and ante means "before," signifying that his horse used to be an old nag but wasn't one anymore.
serious
comical
vexed
remorseful
