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

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

Transcript of AP Lang & Comp Terms Batch #1 (Review Game Version)

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AP Lang & Comp Terms

Batch #1

(Review Game Version)

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#1

Identify the device being used:

“Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!”

(The Wizard of Oz)

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#1 Answer

• Polysyndeton

• The device of repeating conjunctions in close succession.

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#2

Identify the device being used:

“Of the people, by the people, for the people”

(Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address)

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Answer #2

• Epistrophe

• The repetition of a word or group of words at the end of successive phrases, clauses, verses, or sentences

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#3

Identify the term/device:

A pleasing arrangement of sounds

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Answer #3

• Euphony

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#4

Identify the device being used:

“Heard melodies are sweet.”

(John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”)

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Answer #4

• Synaesthesia

• The use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another

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#5

Identify the device being used:

“All the other lads there were /

Were Itching to have a bash.”

(Philip Larkin, “Send No Money”)

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Answer #5

• Colloquialism

• An informal or slang expression, especially in the context of formal writing

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#6

Identify the term/device:

The atmosphere of a work of literature; the emotion created by the work

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Answer #6

Mood

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#7

Identify the device being used:

Saying “ethnic cleansing” instead of “genocide”

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Answer #7

• Euphemism

• The use of less offensive language to express unpleasant or vulgar ideas, events, or actions

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#8

Identify the term/device:

The person (sometimes a character) who tells a story; the voice assumed by the

writer. Not necessarily the author (but it can be).

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Answer #8

Narrator

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#9

• The following are examples:

– Richard Wright’s Black Boy– Helen Keller’s The Story of My Life– Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl

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Answer #9

• Autobiography

• The narrative of a person’s life, written by that person.

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#10

Identify the device being used:

The moon smiled down at us as we sat by the river.

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Answer #10

• Personification

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

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#11

Identify the term/device:

The character an author assumes in a written work.

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Answer #11

Persona

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#12

Identify the term/device:

An author’s individual way of using language to reflect his or her own personality and attitudes. An author communicates this

through tone, diction, and sentence structure.

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Answer #12

Voice

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#13

Identify the term/device:

The works of Homer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Bronte and other great writers.

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Answer #13

Canon

• An evolving group of literary works considered essential to a culture’s literary tradition.

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#14

• The following are examples:

– Richard the Lionheart– Shoeless Joe Jackson– The Brooklyn Bomber

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Answer #14

• Epithet

• An adjective or phrase that describes a prominent or distinguishing feature of a person or thing

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#15

Identify the device being used:

In Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, the nightmares Lockwood has the night he sleeps in Catherine’s bed prefigure later

events in the novel.

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Answer #15

• Foreshadowing

• An author’s deliberate use of hints or suggestions to give a preview of events or themes that do not develop until later in the narrative.

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#16

Identify the device being used:

The ship was crewed by fifty hands.

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Answer #16

Synecdoche

A figure of speech in which a part of an entity is used to refer to the whole

(In this case, “hands” alludes to the people—all of the people—manning the ship.)

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#17

Identify the term/device:

A technique of detachment that draws awareness to the discrepancy between

words and their meanings, between expectation and fulfillment, or, most

commonly, between what is and what seems to be.

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Answer #17

• Irony

(Five types = verbal, situational, romantic, dramatic/tragic, and cosmic)

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#18

Identify the term/device:

Specific facts or examples used to support a claim in a piece of writing.

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Answer #18

Evidence

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#19

Identify the device being used:

“Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.”

(Shakespeare, Sonnet 129)

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Answer #19

Parallelism

• The use of similar grammatical structures or word order in two or more sentences, clauses, or phrases to suggest a comparison or contrast between them.

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#20

Identify the term/device:

The art of persuasion, or the art of speaking or writing well. This involves the study of

how words influence audiences.

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Answer #20

Rhetoric

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#21

Identify the term/device:

The main idea, or principal claim, that is supported in a work of nonfiction.

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Answer #21

Thesis statement

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#22

Identify the term/device:

The author’s attitude toward the subject or characters of a story or poem, or toward

the reader.

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Answer #22

tone

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#23

Identify the device being used:

Asking the wealthy nations of the world to feed the impoverished nations is like

asking people on a full lifeboat to take on more passengers.

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Answer #23

Analogy

• A comparison based on a specific similarity between things that are otherwise unlike, or the inference that if two things are alike in some ways, they will be alike in others. Often analogies draw a comparison between something abstract and something more concrete or easier to visualize.

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#24

Identify the device being used:

“And all men kill the thing they love.”

(Oscar Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”)

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Answer #24

Paradox

• A statement that seems absurd or even contradictory but that often expresses a deeper truth.

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#25

Identify the device being used:

My teacher is a total psychopath.

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Answer #25

• Hyperbole

• Excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact.