AP Fall 2014

Question 1

If you research the social and political environment surrounding a speech, you're examining the

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context

Question 2

An adjective meaning "not clear"

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ambiguous

Question 3

The first truly "literary" movement in America

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Romanticism

Question 4

A device in which a writer asks a rhetorical question and then proceeds to answer it.

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Hypophora

Question 5

the repetition of words/phrases at the beginning of a clause

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anaphora

Question 6

A general term for the order in which words/phrases are structured in a work

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syntax

Question 7

A narrative in which all characters, settings, and events are symbolic

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Allegory

Question 8

The act of making all items in a list maintain the same grammatical structure

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parallelism

Question 9

When an author provides a detailed definition of what they mean - "I mean to say,"

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Distinctio

Question 10

Which of the following is not one of the AP Lang essays?

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Literary Analysis

Question 11

"To Build a Fire" would be considered....

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Naturalist

Question 12

Jonathan Edwards wrote in what genre?

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Sermons

Question 13

The regionalisms and pronunciation particular to a region.

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Dialect

Question 14

Which philosopher largely inspired the Transcendental movement?

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Kant

Question 15

Adherents to which movement believed strongly in Social Darwinism/Survival of the Fittest?

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Naturalism

Question 16

A fallacy in which the speaker uses intentionally confusing words

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doubletalk

Question 17

Edgar Allan Poe wrote during the _____ movement

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Gothic

Question 18

A fallacy in which you dismiss a piece of evidence because you don't like its source

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Poisoning the Well

Question 19

Select all of the genres common in Revolutionary literature

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Diaries, Tracts, Speeches, Pamphlets

Question 20

The Turn of the Screw would belong to which movement?

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Gothic

Question 21

The repetition of initial consonant sounds (Susie sells seashells)

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alliteration

Question 22

Who wrote the following poem? (Hint - just look at the formatting)

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Cummings

Question 23

A sentence that begins an idea, and then slowly builds upon it with many clauses.

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cumulative

Question 24

Which of the following is NOT a tool commonly used in satire

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Dialect

Question 25

Repeated clauses that don't use a conjunction

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asyndeton

Question 26

Which movement was fond of wild landscapes?

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Romanticism

Question 27

Where should the thesis of your paper go?

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Last line of intro

Question 28

Walden is considered to be the most important work of the _____ movement

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Transcendental

Question 29

An appeal to logic

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logos

Question 30

Henry David Thoreau belonged to the _____ movement

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Transcendental

Question 31

The "Father" of American literature

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Irving

Question 32

Which author lived his/her life as a virtual recluse, never leaving his/her house in MA?

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Dickenson

Question 33

A word for changing the formality of your language based on the situation

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Codeswitching

Question 34

The event that most directly triggered Realism

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The Civil War

Question 35

The founder of Transcendentalism

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Emerson

Question 36

Establishing personal credibility with an audience is an example of:

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ethos

Question 37

A sentence that urges the reader to take action

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imperative

Question 38

Any use of language that appeals to the five senses.

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Imagery

Question 39

Which movement pulled inspiration from Medieval architecture?

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Gothicism

Question 40

A fallacy in which you attack the person instead of his or her argument

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ad hominem

Question 41

Intentionally making a situation seem less important than it is

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Understatement

Question 42

"Women remember everything they want to forget and forget everything they want to remember"

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chiasmus

Question 43

A sentence that juxtaposes contrasting clauses (we have to live together, or we'll die alone)

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antithesis

Question 44

The way a longer work should be written

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Italicized

Question 45

A switching of the normal order of a sentence (Found someone you have I would say -Yoda)

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Inversion

Question 46

Edgar Allan Poe wrote during the _____ movement

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Gothic

Question 47

Which author touted the importance of "self-reliance"?

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Emerson

Question 48

A general term that refers to the art of persuasion

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Rhetoric

Question 49

A long, complex sentence which is ended by a climactic, oftentimes short, clause.

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periodic

Question 50

A reference to a piece of humanities-based knowledge the reader is expected to know

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allusion

AP Fall 2014

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AP Fall 2014

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