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Review Jeopardy. AP ENGLISH Semester I. JEOPARDY!. Click Once to Begin. A game show template. A figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to compare two different things. What is a SIMILE?. The contrast between what a person says and what he/she means. What is VERBAL IRONY?.
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Review Jeopardy AP ENGLISH Semester I
JEOPARDY! Click Once to Begin A game show template
A figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to compare two different things
The contrast between what a person says and what he/she means
The prevailing emotional attitude in a literary work or part of a work
Usually a character who, by contrast, points up the qualities or characteristics of another character
A figure of speech that creates an implied analogy in which one thing is imaginatively compared to or identified with another dissimilar thing
Harsh, cutting personal remarks to or about someone; not necessarily ironic
A form of wit, not necessarily funny, that involves a play on words that have similar sounds
A composition that ridicules another composition by imitating and exaggerating aspects of its content
A term used to describe any form of literature that blends ironic humor and wit with criticism
A type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being less important than it actually is
A weakness in a character or a defect on the part of a dignified, noble character, which sets the plot in motion and leads to the character’s downfall or destruction
A character whose basic goodness and superiority are marred by a tragic flaw such as pride
According to Aristotle, the power of tragedy to purge the emotions of pity and fear that its incidents have aroused
A pattern or model of an action, a character type, or an image that recurs consistently enough in life and literature to be considered universal
The arrangement and grammatical relation of words, phrases, and clauses in sentences; the ordering of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences
The associations, images, or impressions carried by a word, as opposed to the word’s literal meaning
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or within words
Reversing the normal order of sentence parts; Shakespeare does this often
An unrhymed form of poetry that often but not always contains 10 syllables in which every other syllable, beginning with the second, is stressed
A statement that, while apparently self-contradictory, is nonetheless essentially true
The pervasive mood, emotional feeling, or tone of a place, scene, or event in a literary work
A term used to refer to language that contains figures of speech, such as metaphors, similes, personification, and hyperbole, etc.