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AP Lang & Comp Terms

AP Lang & Comp Terms. Batch #5 (Review Game Version). #1. Identify the literary term/device: The perspective that a narrative takes toward the events it describes. Answer #1. Point of view. #2. Identify the literary device being used:

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AP Lang & Comp Terms

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  1. AP Lang & Comp Terms Batch #5 (Review Game Version)

  2. #1 Identify the literary term/device: The perspective that a narrative takes toward the events it describes.

  3. Answer #1 Point of view

  4. #2 Identify the literary device being used: The chairs of the English departments at Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford all agree that Shakespeare was almost certainly the author of the plays that bear his name.

  5. Answer #2 Expert opinion The citation of accredited authorities in support of an argument

  6. #3 Identify the literary term/device: The misplacement of a person, occurrence, custom, or idea in time; also sometimes refers to an individual or thing that is incorrectly placed in time.

  7. Answer #3 Anachronism

  8. #4 Identify the literary term/device: The moment of greatest intensity in a text, or the major turning point in the plot.

  9. Answer #4 climax

  10. #5 Identify the literary term/device: A cleansing or purification of one’s emotions through art.

  11. Answer #5 catharsis

  12. #6 Identify the literary term/device: Ideas, facts, or allegations spread to persuade others to support one’s cause or to go against the opposing cause.

  13. Answer #6 propaganda

  14. #7 Identify the literary device being used: “I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 3.2.71)

  15. Answer #7 Antithesis The contrasting of ideas by the use of parallel structure in phrases or clauses

  16. #8 Identify the literary term/device: A humorous and often satirical imitation of the style or particular work of another author.

  17. Answer #8 parody

  18. #9 Identify the literary device being used: The crown carries many responsibilities.

  19. Answer #9 Metonymy A figure of speech in which something is referred to by one of its attributes.

  20. #10 Identify the literary term/device: In writing, a practice or principle (such as a rule of spelling, grammar, or usage), that is accepted as true or correct.

  21. Answer #10 Convention

  22. #11 Identify the literary term/device: A narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning.

  23. Answer #11 Allegory

  24. #12 Identify the literary term/device: A word or idea that can be understood in multiple ways; frequently refers to the condition of being obscure or difficult to understand.

  25. Answer #12 Ambiguity

  26. #13 Identify the literary device being used: “Barber, baby, bubbles, and a bumblebee” (Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Book)

  27. Answer #13 Alliteration The repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words.

  28. #14 Identify the literary term/device: In an argument, a person cited because his or her opinion carries special weight or credibility.

  29. Answer #14 Authority

  30. #15 Identify the literary term/device: Any composition not written in verse

  31. Answer #15 Prose

  32. #16 Identify the literary term/device: A yearning for the past or for some condition or state of existence that cannot be recovered.

  33. Answer #16 Nostalgia

  34. #17 Identify the literary device being used: It’s nothing. I’m just bleeding to death is all.

  35. Answer #17 Litotes Deliberate understatement, in which an idea or opinion is often affirmed by negating its opposite.

  36. #18 Identify the literary device being used: I’ve told you this a million times already.

  37. Answer #18 Hyperbole Excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact.

  38. #19 Identify the literary term/device: A style in which the narrator reports neutrally on the outward behavior of the characters but offers no interpretation of their actions or their inner states.

  39. Answer #19 Third person objective point of view (objective narration)

  40. #20 Identify the literary term/device: A work that exposes to ridicule the shortcomings of individuals, institutions, or society, often to make a political point.

  41. Answer #20 satire

  42. #21 Identify the literary term/device: Specific word choice used in a piece of writing, often chosen for effect but also for correctness and clarity.

  43. Answer #21 diction

  44. #22 Examples of this literary device: Same difference Jumbo shrimp Soft rock

  45. Answer #22 Oxymoron The association of two contradictory terms

  46. #23 Identify the literary term/device: The location of a narrative in time and space; helps to create mood or atmosphere.

  47. Answer #23 Setting

  48. #24 Identify the literary term/device: An extraordinary use of language to achieve a certain effect on an audience. Some examples are chiasmus, parallelism, rhetorical question, and synecdoche.

  49. Answer #24 Rhetorical device

  50. #25 Identify the literary term/device: In the context of writing and literature, this term refers to the reading public or to a specific group of intended readers.

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