5 Steps to a 5 AP English Language 2019
Practice Exam 1 ❮ 189
- Which of the following ideas can be supported
based on the third sentence (lines 9–12)
beginning with “And when I.. .”?
A. The speaker enjoys watching boats sailing
on the horizon.
B. The speaker wants to revel in the beauty
and grace of nature.
C. The speaker responds to the symmetry and
balance of nature.
D. The speaker realizes how vulnerable man is
in the universe.
E. The speaker is fearful of the earth and sea.
- All of the following contribute to the feeling of
solitude except:
A. “... the impassive earth had swallowed her
up without an effort.. .”
B. “a group of barren islets”
C. “the grove surrounding the great Paknam
pagoda”
D. “the monotonous sweep of the horizon”
E. “ruins of stone walls, towers, and
blockhouses”
- The passage is organized primarily by means of
A. spatial description
B. definition
C. chronological order
D. order of importance
E. parallelism
- In the third to last sentence of the passage
(lines 18–21) beginning with “Here and
there . . . ,” the figure of speech used to
describe “the windings of the great river” is
A. personification
B. simile
C. apostrophe
D. antithesis
E. symbol
52. The writer emphasizes his solitude by using all
of the following rhetorical techniques except:
A. heavy descriptive emphasis placed on
setting
B. overt statement of the absence of other
people
C. tracking the departure of the tugboat
D. diction that emphasizes desertion and
neglect
E. contrasting the present situation with
previous times
53. A characteristic of the author’s style is
A. succession of allusions
B. the use of emotional language
C. terse sentence structure
D. vividness of contrasting images
E. shifts in points of view
54. The tone of the passage can best be described as
A. cynical
B. reflective
C. sarcastic
D. elegiac
E. apathetic
END OF SECTION I
