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AP English Literary Terms: Poetry! Practice Test

A quiz to help AP English Literature & Composition students study for the AP exam.

Questions: 27 | Attempts: 2852 | Last updated: May 16, 2019

Sample Question
A literary work in which characters, events, objects, and ideas have secondary or symbolic meanings. One of the most popular examples from the 20th Century was George Orwell's Animal Farm, about farm animals vying for power. On the surface, it is an entertaining story that even children can enjoy. Beneath the surface, it is the story of ruthless Soviet totalitarianism.

Allegory

Fable

Parable

Symbol

Tall tale

AP English Literary Terms: Prose! Practice Test

A quiz to help students study for the prose portion of the AP English exam.

Questions: 21 | Attempts: 469 | Last updated: May 16, 2019

Sample Question
Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of word groups occurring one after the other. Examples: (1) Give me wine, give me women and give me song. (2) For everything there is a season . . . a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.–Bible, Ecclesiastes. (3) To die, to sleep; to sleep: perchance to dream.–Shakespeare, Hamlet.

Alliteration

Asyndeton

Synecdoche

Anaphora

Connotation

AP English: Frankenstein Novel Questions! Trivia Quiz

Mary Shelley authored the novel “Frankenstein,” first published in 1818. The book is about a scientist who creates something of a monster during an experiment. It doesn’t take long very before the reader...

Questions: 75 | Attempts: 373 | Last updated: May 27, 2021

Sample Question
Frankenstein’s initial reaction upon meeting with his creature can best be described as

Profound despair

Uncontrollable rage

Paralyzing terror

Heart-felt compassion

AP English Test On Rhetorical Devices And Fallacies! Trivia Quiz

Welcome to AP English Language practice test on rhetorical devices and fallacies.

Questions: 22 | Attempts: 128 | Last updated: May 17, 2019

Sample Question
Expletive

Is a single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal syntax, used to lend emphasis to the words immediately proximate to the _________. (We emphasize the words on each side of a pause or interruption in order to maintain continuity of the thought.)

Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. In a list of items, ______ gives the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account:

Is the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause, and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton. The rhetorical effect of ______, however, often shares with that of asyndeton a feeling of multiplicity, energetic enumeration, and building up.

Repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next. it can be generated in series for the sake of beauty or to give a sense of logical progression

Resembles anadiplosis in the repetition of a preceding word, but it repeats a key word (not just the last word) from a preceding phrase, clause, or sentence, at the beginning of the next.

AP English Language Quiz: Terms And Definitions!

Welcome to the very first AP English language practice test.

Questions: 24 | Attempts: 1057 | Last updated: May 16, 2019

Sample Question
Allegory

A simile with important cultural background.

Representation of abstract ideas through a character, symbol, or story; an extended metaphor with an underlying meaning.

Using similar sentence construction to create emphasis.

Using non-fiction to develop irony.

A reference to important historical or cultural knowledge.

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Test Your Knowledge On AP English Literature

Test your knowledge on AP English Literature

Test your knowledge on AP English Literature with this literature exam, designed to test on logic, basics and elements of literature. It also has classical questions on published literature with notable writers. Understanding of...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 114 | Last updated: Oct 18, 2018

Sample Question
Which of these is characteristic of all forms of literature?

Action

Language

Narration

Verses

AP English Language And Composition Exam Quiz

AP English Language and Composition Exam quiz

The AP English Language exam tests your ability of comprehension. It includes various compositions to answer questions on English Language. Your ability to read and understand various passages is tested in this standard exam....

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 119 | Last updated: Oct 18, 2018

Sample Question
I grew up in an orphanage where we had very little to eat and drink, and Miss Rose, the young woman in charge of the foster home often made us work very long hours without a three square meal. She believed the less children had to eat keeps them alert and fast on their feet, and I kind of believe her. All night, I don't sleep because of the aching hunger that grows stronger everyday, I've grown whiter and thinner since I came here. My mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness and she was always sick, she couldn't take care of me even if she wanted to. My father was a policeman who drank too much and he ran into gambling debts last year, he had since ran away without turning back. Life hasn't been rosy, but its all I've got. Answer the questions that follow Why did the orphanage bring the writer in, even though his father was alive?

He ran into gambling debts

He ran away

He wasn't his father

He didn't seem responsible enough to grant him custody

AP English Language And Composition Literary Terms Quiz

AP English Language and Composition Literary Terms Quiz

Created to help me (and others) study for a class

Questions: 49 | Attempts: 159 | Last updated: Dec 14, 2016

Advanced Placement English Test On Vocabulary! Quiz

Advanced Placement English Test on Vocabulary! Quiz

Complete the sentence stems by filling in the blanks with one of the following words: aberrant, abridge, abrade, abstruse, abate, bent, bask, befriend, belabor, belie(s), benevolent, benign, bacterium, ballad, and...

Questions: 15 | Attempts: 82 | Last updated: Jul 5, 2019

Practice Test: Advanced Placement English Vocabulary! Quiz

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 64 | Last updated: Jul 5, 2019

Advanced Placement Basic English Vocabulary Test! Quiz

Instructions: Read each sentence carefully and select the appropriate word for each sentence. You can choose from the following choices: abate, abdicate, aberrant, abrade, abridge, abscond, abstract, abstruse, academic,...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 74 | Last updated: May 17, 2019

Advanced Placement English Test On Literary Terms!

Advanced Placement English Test on Literary Terms!

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 36 | Last updated: Jul 5, 2019

Sample Question
WHAT ELEMENT ONLY USE WORDS OF LITERARY WORK?

DEVICES OF SOUND

END-STOPPED

EYE-RHYME

DICTION

Advanced Placement English Vocabulary Test! Quiz

Questions: 30 | Attempts: 105 | Last updated: Jul 5, 2019

AP Test On English Language! Quiz

AP Test on English Language! Quiz

Questions: 11 | Attempts: 45 | Last updated: May 17, 2019

Sample Question
What is the definition for Concur

Feeling pain/sorrow for sin or offenses

Expressing much in few words

Document giving official command

Agree

Overbrook High School AP English Language Practice Test!

This is the final exam for the first marking period for AP English Language class at Overbrook High School. This exam is an open-notes/open-books assessment. Students should use their personal notes as an answer resource. They...

Questions: 17 | Attempts: 643 | Last updated: May 16, 2019

Sample Question
In reference to your reading of "On Compassion" by Barbara Ascher, please read paragraph 7 (located in 50 Essays on page 36, beginning half-way down the page with the words "Up the avenue..."). In this paragraph, you will find each of the following EXCEPT:

Alliteration

Repetition

First person point of view

Contrasting images

Simile

SAT: Ap English Vocabulary Test! Quiz

SAT: AP English Vocabulary Test! Quiz

SAT Vocab test for AP English

Questions: 14 | Attempts: 116 | Last updated: May 17, 2019

Sample Question
Aegis; syn: backing

Eager

Decaying flesh

Rich, luxurious, wealthy

Shield or protection

Causing disagreement

Ap English Language Terms: Definitions! Practice Test II

AP English Language Terms: Definitions! Practice Test II

Questions: 24 | Attempts: 168 | Last updated: May 16, 2019

Sample Question
Imagery

Placing two similar objects or ideas side by side for comparison/ contrast.

The use of a word to govern or modify two or more words when it is appropriate to one of them, or appropriate to each of them in.

A series of words or descriptions to create a sensory impression in your mind.

Representation of abstract ideas through a character, symbol, or story; an extended metaphor with an underlying meaning.

Repetition of the same letter of sound at the beginning of words in a word group.