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:

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.

Answer #2

Expert opinion

The citation of accredited authorities in support of an argument

#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.

Answer #3

Anachronism

#4

Identify the literary term/device:

The moment of greatest intensity in a text, or the major turning point in the plot.

Answer #4

climax

#5

Identify the literary term/device:

A cleansing or purification of one’s emotions through art.

Answer #5

catharsis

#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.

Answer #6

propaganda

#7

Identify the literary device being used:

“I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”

(Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 3.2.71)

Answer #7

Antithesis

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

#8

Identify the literary term/device:

A humorous and often satirical imitation of the style or particular work of another

author.

Answer #8

parody

#9

Identify the literary device being used:

The crown carries many responsibilities.

Answer #9

Metonymy

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

#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.

Answer #10

Convention

#11

Identify the literary term/device:

A narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic

meaning.

Answer #11

Allegory

#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.

Answer #12

Ambiguity

#13

Identify the literary device being used:

“Barber, baby, bubbles, and a bumblebee”

(Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Book)

Answer #13

Alliteration

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

#14

Identify the literary term/device:

In an argument, a person cited because his or her opinion carries special weight or

credibility.

Answer #14

Authority

#15

Identify the literary term/device:

Any composition not written in verse

Answer #15

Prose

#16

Identify the literary term/device:

A yearning for the past or for some condition or state of existence that cannot be

recovered.

Answer #16

Nostalgia

#17

Identify the literary device being used:

It’s nothing. I’m just bleeding to death is all.

Answer #17

Litotes

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

#18

Identify the literary device being used:

I’ve told you this a million times already.

Answer #18

Hyperbole

Excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact.

#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.

Answer #19

Third person objective point of view

(objective narration)

#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.

Answer #20

satire

#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.

Answer #21

diction

#22

Examples of this literary device:

Same difference

Jumbo shrimp

Soft rock

Answer #22

Oxymoron

The association of two contradictory terms

#23

Identify the literary term/device:

The location of a narrative in time and space; helps to create mood or

atmosphere.

Answer #23

Setting

#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.

Answer #24

Rhetorical device

#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.

Answer #25

Audience