AP Lang & Comp Terms Batch #4 (Review Game Version)

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AP Lang & Comp Terms Batch #4 (Review Game Version)

Transcript of AP Lang & Comp Terms Batch #4 (Review Game Version)

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AP Lang & Comp Terms

Batch #4

(Review Game Version)

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Identify the literary device/term:

Words that connect ideas and show the relationships between those ideas (relationships such as causal links, similarities, contrasts, and so on)

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Answer #1

Transition words

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#2

Identify the literary device being used:

I got hives from the shrimp I ate last night.

I must be allergic to shellfish.

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Answer #2

Inductive reasoning

• Reasoning in which one arrives at a general conclusion from specific instances.

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#3

Identify the literary device/term:

A story

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Answer #3

narrative

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Identify the literary device/term:

To turn or move away from the main subject of discussion or the main argument in a

piece of writing.

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Answer #4

Digression

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#5

Identify the literary device/term:

Following the established rules or conventions of writing

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Answer #5

Formal writing

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#6

Identify the literary device being used:

Walt Whitman’s poem “O Captain, My Captain” was written upon the death of

Abraham Lincoln

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Answer #6

Apostrophe

A direct address to an absent or dead person, or to an object, quality, or idea

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Identify the literary device being used:

In “Ode to Melancholy,” John Keats describes a “weeping cloud.”

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Answer #7

Personification pathetic fallacy

The attribution of human feeling or motivation to a nonhuman object, especially an object found in nature

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The following are examples

James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson

Plato’s The Death of Socrates

George Kent’s A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks

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Answer #8

Biography

The nonfictional story of an individual’s life written by someone else

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#9

Identify the literary device being used:

Chicken is supposed to be healthy.

This sandwich contains chicken.

So, it is probably healthy.

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Answer #9

Deductive reasoning

Reasoning in which one derives a specific conclusion from something generally or universally understood to be true.

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#10

Identify the literary device being used:

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

(Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying”)

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Answer #10

Chiasmus

Two phrases in which the syntax is the same but placement of words is reversed.

(BTW…this quote is also an example of aphorism)

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#11

Identify the literary device/term:

The mode of reasoning by which we determine whether something is valid or

invalid, according to which any claim should (in principle) be able to be justified

by reasons and evidence.

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Answer #11

Logic

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#12

Identify the literary device/term:

An exaggeration of fact

(also: hyperbole)

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Answer #12

Overstatement

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Identify the literary device/term:

Form of narration in which the narrator conveys a subject’s thoughts, impressions,

and perceptions exactly as they occur, often in disjointed fashion and without the logic and grammar of typical speech and

writing

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Answer #13

Stream-of-consciousness

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#14

Identify the literary device/term:

The narrator of a poem; also the voice assumed by the writer (not necessarily the

author him/herself).

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Answer #14

Speaker

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#15

Identify the literary device/term:

A technique in which one understanding of a situation stands in sharp contrast to

another, usually more prevalent, understanding of the same situation.

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Answer #15

Situational irony

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#16

Identify the literary device/term:

In writing and literature, an author’s exaggeration or distortion of certain traits

or characteristics of an individual.

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Answer #16

Caricature

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#17

Identify the literary device/term:

A novel about the education or psychological growth of the protagonist, or

main character.

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Answer #17

Bildungsroman

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#18

Identify the literary device being used:

In the poem “Chicago,” Carl Sandburg describes the city as a “stormy, husky, brawling, /City of the Big Shoulders.”

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Personification pathetic fallacy

The attribution of human feeling or motivation to a nonhuman object, especially an object found in nature

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Identify the literary device being used:

“The wine-dark sea”

(Homer, The Iliad)

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Answer #19

Epithet

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

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#20

Identify the literary device being used:

As hot as the sun

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Answer #20

Simile

A comparison of two unlike things through the use of like or as

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#21

Identify the literary device being used:

When the going gets tough,

the tough get going.

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Answer #21

Chiasmus

Two phrases in which the syntax is the same but placement of words is reversed.

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#22

Identify the literary device being used:

Avoid it like the plague.

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Answer #22

Cliché

An expression that has been used so frequently it has lost its expressive power

(BTW…also an example of simile)

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#23

The following is an example of what sentence structure?

Just when you think it’s safe to go in the water, a shark bites you.

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Answer #23

Delayed (periodic) sentence

A sentence that delays introducing the subject and verb (or independent clause) until the end.

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#24

Identify the literary device being used:

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us.”

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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Answer #24

Epistrophe

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

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#25

Identify the literary device being used:

Saying “making love” instead of “having sex”

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Answer #25

Euphemism

The use of more pleasant language to express unpleasant or vulgar ideas, events, or actions.