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AP Vocabulary Review 5

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

 prove that (someone) is wrong, deny or contradict (a statement or accusation)

a)

refute

b)

recapitulate

c)

ostracize

d)

palatial

2.

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'.

a)

let us fight

b)

to do away with

c)

all men’s happiness

d)

both a and b

3.

Repetition is a _________ used rhetorical device

a)

rarely

b)

frequently

c)

occasionally

d)

uncommonly

4.

"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."

a)

Ethos

b)

Logos

c)

Pathos

5.

What is rhetoric?

a)

The art of war

b)

The art of disagreement

c)

The art of persuasion

d)

The art of logic

6.

Which of these would be an argument using pathos?

a)

Statistics about an athlete

b)

Kobe Bryant promoting Call of Duty

c)

A political poll about the economy

d)

A picture of malnourished animals

7.

What is the best definition for repetition?

a)

repeating a specific phrase to add rhythm or structure

b)

repeating a word or phrase to add emphasis

c)

word choice that is used to make the reader feel a specific emotion

d)

referring to well-known people, books, or institutions

8.

What is the best definition for rhetorical questions?

a)

Repeating a specific phrase to add structure or rhythm.

b)

Repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.

c)

Comparing two unlike things for emphasis.

d)

A question that has an obvious answer, only used to further an argument

9.

“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.”

a)

Personification

b)

Euphemism

c)

Repetition

d)

Alliteration

10.

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"The nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

a)

analogy

b)

charged language

c)

parallelism

d)

antithesis

11.

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?

a)

analogy

b)

allusion

c)

antithesis

d)

rhetorical questions

12.

Which rhetorical device is used in the following sentence?

"Cars have made life far more convenient for us, but at what cost?"

a)

rhetorical question

b)

parenthesis

c)

metaphor

d)

euphemism

13.

Which of the following best describes the main purpose of satire?

a)

to be funny

b)

to encourage people to rebel

c)

to make people angry

d)

to bring about change

14.

Which movie about a green ogre is actually a satire of the fairy tale genre?

a)

The Muppets

b)

Shrek

15.

What is satire.

a)

Often not very entertaining

b)

A literary device used to create change through the use of sarcasm, humor, and ridicule.

c)

No longer a popular form of writing

d)

All of the above

16.

If we ban Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars, so we should not ban Hummers.

a)

Slippery Slope

b)

Hasty Generalization

c)

Circular Argument

d)

Red Herring

17.

A writer's style includes all of the following elements except:

a)

sentence structure

b)

subject matter

c)

figures of speech

d)

word choice

18.

What is tone?

a)

a type of figure of speech

b)

a form of poetry

c)

the changes that occur in a character

d)

the attitude of an author

19.

Describing a character as pale and gaunt suggests a tone of

a)

happiness

b)

joy

c)

concern

d)

admiration

20.

Repetition is...

a)

When the author hints at events yet to happen in a story

b)

The same thing again

c)

Recurs throughout the story and helps develop theme

d)

The mode of narration

21.

Symbolism is...

a)

Conversation between two or more people

b)

Using symbols to represent concepts or idea

c)

Exaggeration to prove a point

d)

Contrast between how things seem and how they really are

22.

Tone is...

a)

Overall mood and message

b)

The same thing again

c)

Comparing two things saying one is another

d)

Previous events split up the present happenings

23.

Synecdoche is defined as....

a)

A figure of speech in which a part is used to 

signify the whole.

b)

When we hint at something and expect the other person to understand what we are referencing. 

24.

which is an example of a synecdoche?

a)

using the 5 senses to convey an image to the reader

b)

repeating the same consonant sound

c)

using the word sails to refer to the actual boat

d)

using the phrase old man to refer to your father

25.

Which of the following statements is true?

a)

Synecdoche is often used within literature to keep a natural conversational style.

b)

Synecdoche is a type of figure of speech which is not literal.

c)

Synecdoche is using a part of something to represent the whole thing.

d)

All of the statements are true

26.

In the following sentence, what word is an example of synecdoche? 'Dan loves to take his boat out on the waves.'

a)

Dan

b)

waves

c)

out

d)

boat

27.

What is Syntax?

a)

Syntax is the part of linguistics that studies the meaning of linguistic expressions.

b)

Syntax is the part of linguistics that studies the rules governing the inflection, composition and derivation of words.

c)

Syntax is the arrangement of words and phrases in a specific order.

28.

Writers make use of parallelism in the literature of syntax?

a)

True.

b)

False.

29.

Writers vary the structure of their sentences and phrases because it is a powerful way to convey what to the reader?

a)

meaning

b)

emotion

c)

emphasis

d)

[all of the responses]

30.

The opposite of the author's claim or the opposing argument is called the ______.

a)

credible source

b)

Support evidence

c)

claim

d)

counterclaim

31.

In argument writing, the author's purpose is to:

a)

entertain

b)

persuade

c)

inform

d)

direct

32.

Gets an A on test and says "I did OK on that test."

a)

Idiom

b)

Understatment

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Imagery

33.

What is an understatement?

a)

A comparison using "like" or "as".

b)

A statement that gives non-human objects human characteristics.

c)

A statement that creter humor by saying something less significant than it is.

d)

an expressing whose meaning is different from the literal meaning.

34.
10. Our math teacher knows a thing or two about arithmetic.
a)
Understatement
b)
Hyperbole
35.

Which of the following is true about author's language? Select TWO correct answers.

a)

author's use voice to create their own unique style

b)

all author's use the same voice

c)

author's use voice to contribute to the purpose of the text

d)

an author's voice has no effect on the purpose of their text

e)

author's voice requires volume control

36.

Voice---

a)

is the reader's feelings about a text

b)

is created by the reader and the author

c)

belongs to the reader

d)

is the author's personality and expression

37.

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.

a)

serious

b)

comical

c)

vexed

d)

remorseful