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AP Lang Comp Terms
  • Batch 5
  • (Review Game Version)

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1
  • 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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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.

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Answer 2
  • Expert opinion
  • The citation of accredited authorities in support
    of an argument

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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.

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Answer 3
  • Anachronism

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4
  • 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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5
  • 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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6
  • 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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7
  • 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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8
  • 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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9
  • 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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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.

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Answer 10
  • Convention

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11
  • 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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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.

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Answer 12
  • Ambiguity

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13
  • 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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14
  • 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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15
  • Identify the literary term/device
  • Any composition not written in verse

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Answer 15
  • Prose

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16
  • 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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17
  • 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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18
  • 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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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.

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Answer 19
  • Third person objective point of view
  • (objective narration)

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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.

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Answer 20
  • satire

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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.

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Answer 21
  • diction

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22
  • 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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23
  • 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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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.

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Answer 24
  • Rhetorical device

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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.

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Answer 25
  • Audience
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