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AP® English Literature and Composition Passage Drill 1, Problem 1. Which literary device is used in lines 31 to 37?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 7. The primary purpose of this passage is what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.10 Passage Drill 2. All of the following literary devices are used in this passage except what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.10 Passage Drill 3. What tone shift is indicated by line 49?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 3. The tone of this passage is best characterized as what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 4. As which of the following is the object being personified?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 7. Which of the following best describes the narrator's feelings about the acquisition...

AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 4. Which of the following is not true of the structure of this poem?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 5. The verse form of this poem is a what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 6. Which of the following best explains the relationship between the title and the content...

AP English Literature and Composition 1.10 Passage Drill 1. The speaker's diction in this passage serves to characterize him as which of the f...

AP English Literature and Composition 1.10 Passage Drill 4. Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem as a whole?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.10 Passage Drill 5. The author's tone is best characterized as which of the following?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.10 Passage Drill 6. In line 18, the word "beadsman" most nearly means what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.10 Passage Drill 7. The use of a very short sentence in lines 83-85 is most likely intended to what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 1. All of the following are true of struldbrugs except that what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 2. Which of the following best restates the main idea of the passage?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 5. What is being personified?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 6. What can be inferred about the poem's audience?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.3 Passage Drill 1. In the context of the passage, what does the word "compass" in line 15 mean?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.3 Passage Drill 3. From the passage, one can infer which of the following of Amory's view of pacifism?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.3 Passage Drill 7. What is the meaning of the phrase "lady of fortune" as it is used in line 4?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 3. How is Burne's view of pacifism best characterized in lines 57 through 67?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 5. According to lines 5 and 6, "much pleasure" derives from what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 3. The term "picayune" is best understood as what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.3 Passage Drill 2. The author's tone in regard to friendship between monarchs and servants is best described as which of the following?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.3 Passage Drill 4. What literary device is demonstrated in lines 8–10?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.3 Passage Drill 5. This form of address is most commonly referred to as a what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.3 Passage Drill 6. The form of this poem can best be described as what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 1. Which of the following best describes the speaker's attitude towards immortality?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 2. What literary device characterizes lines 18 through 23?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 4. Lines 21-24 imply that what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 6. The function of the couplets in lines 5-6, 11-12, and 17-18 is to what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 7. In lines 6 through 7, what technique does the author use to describe Mr. and Mrs. Nickleby's marriage?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 1. In the third paragraph, how does the author foreshadow a coming tone shift?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 2. What is the grammatical referent of the word "it" in the phrase "that it should have any character at all"?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 4. From the poem, it can be inferred that the author's attitude toward his youth is what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 5. What is the principle effect of the anaphora in lines 10-12?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 6. Lines 17-18 imply that the speaker's greatest concern is what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 7. In lines 34 through 37, what technique does the author use to describe the family's desperate situation?