AP English Quizzes & Trivia

If you don’t yet feel comfortable distinguishing between an author’s form, tone, and voice; if your use of grammatical conventions is still a little, well, unconventional; if your diction tends to err on the side of ridiculousness; or if you can’t tell an analogy from an antelope, it may be time to brush up on your English skills. Don’t let your nerves get in the way of a high exam score – take a few minutes to take our trivia quizzes. Don’t make our appeal to authority – you know better than anyone how much you need to study!

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

Questions: 27 | Attempts: 2267 | 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: 270 | 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

SAT: Ap English Vocabulary Test! Quiz

SAT: AP English Vocabulary Test! Quiz

SAT Vocab test for AP English

Questions: 14 | Attempts: 89 | Last updated: May 17, 2019

Sample Question
Aegis; syn: backing

Eager

Decaying flesh

Rich, luxurious, wealthy

Shield or protection

Causing disagreement

AP English Language Quiz: Terms And Definitions!

Welcome to the very first AP English language practice test.

Questions: 24 | Attempts: 689 | 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.

AP English: Frankenstein Novel Questions! Trivia Quiz

Questions: 75 | Attempts: 295 | Last updated: Apr 10, 2020

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

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