AP Lang & Comp Terms

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AP Lang Comp Terms

• Batch 5
• (Review Game Version)

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• Identify the literary term/device
• The perspective that a narrative takes toward the
  events it describes.

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Answer 1

• Point of view

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• 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.

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Answer 2

• Expert opinion
• The citation of accredited authorities in support
  of an argument

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• 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.

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Answer 3

• Anachronism

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

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Answer 4

• climax

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• Identify the literary term/device
• A cleansing or purification of ones emotions
  through art.

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Answer 5

• catharsis

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• Identify the literary term/device
• Ideas, facts, or allegations spread to persuade
  others to support ones cause or to go against
  the opposing cause.

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Answer 6

• propaganda

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• Identify the literary device being used
• I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
• (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 3.2.71)

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Answer 7

• Antithesis
• The contrasting of ideas by the use of parallel
  structure in phrases or clauses

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

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Answer 8

• parody

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• Identify the literary device being used
• The crown carries many responsibilities.

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Answer 9

• Metonymy
• A figure of speech in which something is referred
  to by one of its attributes.

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• 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.

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Answer 10

• Convention

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• Identify the literary term/device
• A narrative in which literal meaning corresponds
  directly with symbolic meaning.

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Answer 11

• Allegory

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• 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.

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Answer 12

• Ambiguity

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• Identify the literary device being used
• Barber, baby, bubbles, and a bumblebee
• (Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seusss ABC An Amazing Book)

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Answer 13

• Alliteration
• The repetition of similar sounds, usually
  consonants, at the beginning of words.

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

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Answer 14

• Authority

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• Identify the literary term/device
• Any composition not written in verse

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Answer 15

• Prose

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

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Answer 16

• Nostalgia

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• Identify the literary device being used
• Its nothing. Im just bleeding to death is all.

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Answer 17

• Litotes
• Deliberate understatement, in which an idea or
  opinion is often affirmed by negating its
  opposite.

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• Identify the literary device being used
• Ive told you this a million times already.

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Answer 18

• Hyperbole
• Excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration
  of fact.

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• 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.

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Answer 19

• Third person objective point of view
• (objective narration)

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

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Answer 20

• satire

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

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Answer 21

• diction

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• Examples of this literary device
• Same difference
• Jumbo shrimp
• Soft rock

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Answer 22

• Oxymoron
• The association of two contradictory terms

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• Identify the literary term/device
• The location of a narrative in time and space
  helps to create mood or atmosphere.

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Answer 23

• Setting

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• 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.

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Answer 24

• Rhetorical device

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• 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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Answer 25

• Audience