AP-Style Multiple-Choice Quiz (George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”)
AP-Style Multiple Choice Quiz
George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
After reading the selection from “Politics and the English Language,” choose the best answer to each question. Click the submit button when finished. The following questions refer to paragraphs 14–17.
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10.10 In the context of paragraph 14, political speeches and writing can best be described as
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10.11 “Pacification,” “rectification of frontiers,” and “elimination of unreliable elements” (para. 14) are examples of
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10.12 In paragraph 15, the author uses two similes — “like soft snow” and “like a cuttlefish squirting out ink” — in order to
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10.13 The sentence in paragraph 15 beginning “I should expect to find” contains which of the following?
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10.14 In paragraph 16, the author compares the italicized phrases that begin with “a not unjustifiable assumption” to a packet of aspirins in order to
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10.15 By conceding in paragraph 16 that he has committed the very faults he protests against, the author employs which of the following rhetorical strategies?
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10.16 Which of the following is likely hyperbole?
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10.17 The overall tone of the selection can best be described as
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10.18 In context, the phrase “flyblown metaphors” in paragraph 17 can best be interpreted to mean
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10.19 According to the author, all of the following are ways to cure the decadence of language EXCEPT
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