AP Lang

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AP Lang Comp Terms

• Batch 2
• (Review Game Version)

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• Identify the device being used
• Lifes but a walking shadow, a poor player /
• That struts and frets his hour upon the stage.
• (Shakespeare, Macbeth, 5.5.24-25)

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Answer 1

• Metaphor
• The comparison of unlike things without the use
  of like or as

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• Identify the literary device/term
• Greek for wisdom or reason in the context of
  rhetoric, refers to the process of persuading by
  means of logic and reason, as opposed to style,
  authority, or emotion.

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Answer 2

• Logos

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• Identify the literary device/term
• A short narrative that illustrates a moral by
  means of allegory (in which literal meaning and
  symbolic meaning correspond clearly and directly).

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Answer 3

• Parable

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• Identify the device being used
• No man is an island.
• (John Donne, Meditation 17)

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Answer 4

• Metaphor
• The comparison of unlike things without the use
  of like or as

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• Identify the device being used
• Saying that was graceful when someone trips and
  falls

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Answer 5

• Sarcasm
• A simple form of verbal irony, in which it is
  obvious from context and tone that the speaker
  means the opposite of what he or she says

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• Identify the device being used
• Bow-wow. Crackle. Buzz. Zoom.

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Answer 6

• Onomatopoeia
• The use of words that sound like the thing or
  action to which they refer

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• Identify the literary device/term
• The explicit, literal meaning of a word.

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Answer 7

• Denotation

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• Identify the device being used
• Four out of five dentists surveyed recommend
  sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum.

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Answer 8

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

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• Identify the literary device/term
• Language that brings to mind sense-impressions,
  especially via figures of speech

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Answer 9

• Imagery

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• Identify the device being used
• The detectives dont follow the same rules as the
  uniforms.

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Answer 10

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

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• Identify the literary device/term
• A figure of speech in which a word pr short
  phrase is omitted, but easily understood from the
  context also the marks () that indicates the
  omission of a word or phrase.

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Answer 11

• Ellipsis

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• The following are examples
• Wise fool
• New antiques
• Hot ice

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Answer 12

• Oxymoron
• The association of two contradictory terms.

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• Identify the literary device/term
• One of the types of literature, such as short
  stories, poetry, drama, and novels, or one of the
  categories within those types, such as romance,
  science fiction, mystery, and melodrama.

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Answer 13

• Genre

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• Identify the literary device/term
• To present ideas, images, events, or comments
  that hint at events to come in a story.

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Answer 14

• Foreshadow

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• Identify the literary device/term
• From the Greek word for feeling the quality in
  a work of literature that evokes high emotion,
  most commonly sorrow, pity, or compassion.

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Answer 15

• pathos

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• Identify the literary device/term
• A conversation between two or more speakers also
  an exchange of ideas.

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Answer 16

• dialogue

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• Identify the device being used
• The handsome houses on the street
• to the college were not fully awake,
• but they looked very friendly.
• (Lionel Trilling, Of This Time, of That Place)

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Answer 17

• Personification
• The use of human characteristics to describe
  animals, objects, or ideas.

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• Identify the literary device/term
• An explanation of the meaning or purpose of a
  piece of writing, especially one that is
  difficult to understand.

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Answer 18

• Expository

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• Identify the device being used
• In Sophocles Oedipus Rex, Oedipus vows to
  discover his fathers murderer, not knowing, as
  the audience does, that he himself is the
  murderer.

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Answer 19

• Dramatic irony (also called tragic irony)
• A technique in which the author lets the reader
  in on a characters situation while the character
  remains in the dark thus the characters words
  and actions carry a significance that he or she
  is not aware of.

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• Identify the device being used
• My Life has stooda Loaded Gun
• (Emily Dickinson, untitled poem)

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Answer 20

• Metaphor
• The comparison of unlike things without the use
  of like or as

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• Identify the device being used
• We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on
  the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields
  and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills.
• (Winston S. Churchill, We Shall Fight on the
  Beaches)

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Answer 21

• Anaphora
• Repeated use of a word or phrase at the START of
  successive phrases or sentences for effect (Not,
  oh look! All the sentences begin with the!)

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• Identify the device being used
• One thousand sails pursued Paris when he fled
  with Helen of Troy.

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Answer 22

• Synecdoche
• A figure of speech in which a part of an entity
  is used to refer to the whole (The SHIPS went
  after Helen, not just the sails of the ships)

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• Identify the device being used
• In Nathaniel Hawthornes story The Ministers
  Black Veil, the black veil worn by one of the
  characters represents the sins that members of
  his Puritan community are hiding.

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Answer 23

• Symbol
• A concrete object that is made to represent
  something abstract.

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• Identify the device being used
• As Caesar loved me, I weep for him.
• As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it.
• As he was valiant, I honor him.
• But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
• (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 3.2.23-25)

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Answer 24

• Anaphora
• Repeated use of a word or phrase at the START of
  successive phrases or sentences for effect

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• Identify the literary device/term
• The main character around whom a story revolves.

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Answer 25

• Protagonist