AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND
COMPOSITION PRACTICE TEST 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ comedy
Answer: drama that is amusing or funny
◉ conflict
Answer: struggle between opposing forces
◉ connotation
Answer: secondary meaning to a word
◉ consonance
Answer: repetition of same consonant in words close together
◉ couplet
Answer: two rhyming lines in a verse
◉ denotation
, Answer: the literal meaning of a word
◉ denouement
Answer: final outcome of the story
◉ deus ex machina
Answer: resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence
◉ didactic writing
Answer: writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach
◉ direct presentation of character
Answer: author telling the reader how a character is and what
actions it will do further in the story
◉ double rhyme
Answer: rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last
syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)
◉ dramatic exposition
Answer: prose commentaries, to provide background information
about the characters and their world
COMPOSITION PRACTICE TEST 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ comedy
Answer: drama that is amusing or funny
◉ conflict
Answer: struggle between opposing forces
◉ connotation
Answer: secondary meaning to a word
◉ consonance
Answer: repetition of same consonant in words close together
◉ couplet
Answer: two rhyming lines in a verse
◉ denotation
, Answer: the literal meaning of a word
◉ denouement
Answer: final outcome of the story
◉ deus ex machina
Answer: resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence
◉ didactic writing
Answer: writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach
◉ direct presentation of character
Answer: author telling the reader how a character is and what
actions it will do further in the story
◉ double rhyme
Answer: rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last
syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)
◉ dramatic exposition
Answer: prose commentaries, to provide background information
about the characters and their world
