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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:
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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.
