AP English Literature and Composition Readiness Test

10 questions, balanced across the exam's topics. Answer each one, then submit for your practice readiness estimate and per-topic breakdown. This is a practice estimate — not a prediction or guarantee of your official exam result.

Question 1

Which of the following pairings of a concept with its description is correct?

heroic couplet — a unit of meter composed of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, such as an iamb or trochee villanelle — a pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines, favored by Pope and Dryden for epigrammatic wit sestina — a poem of six six-line stanzas in which six end-words repeat in a rotating pattern, plus a three-line envoy foot (prosody) — a poem of nineteen lines with two repeating refrains, in five tercets and a quatrain

Question 2

In the course framework, "setting" belongs primarily to which unit?

Setting and Structure Narration Poetic Form Character

Question 3

The concept "allusion" is most closely associated with which part of the course?

Character Setting and Structure Figurative Language Poetic Form

Question 4

In the course framework, "free indirect discourse" belongs primarily to which unit?

Setting and Structure Long Fiction and Drama Narration Character

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a key concept of Character?

characterization (direct) conflict (internal) stock character protagonist

Question 6

Which of the following pairings of a concept with its description is correct?

tone (literary) — the author's attitude toward the subject, revealed through diction, imagery, and detail diction (literary) — an imitation of a work or style that exaggerates its features for comic effect or critique symbol — an author's word choice, which may be formal or colloquial, abstract or concrete, and shapes tone and meaning parody — an object, person, or action that represents an abstract idea beyond its literal meaning

Question 7

The phrase "Aristotle's term for the purging or purification of pity and fear experienced by a tragedy's audience" is the definition of which of the following?

chorus (Greek drama) aside catharsis gothic fiction

Question 8

The phrase "a stanza of four lines, the most common stanza form in English poetry" is the definition of which of the following?

lyric poem villanelle quatrain apostrophe (poetic address)

Question 9

What is the meaning of "in medias res"?

The emotional quality or feeling a work creates in the reader, often through setting and diction The series of events that build tension and complicate the conflict after the exposition The technique of beginning a narrative in the middle of the action and filling in background later The turning point of a narrative, the moment of greatest tension at which the conflict is decided

Question 10

All of the following are key concepts associated with Figurative Language EXCEPT

onomatopoeia symbol synecdoche oxymoron

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