AP Literary Terms Winson Phu/Derreck Ali

1. The Game No One Will Win! AP Literary Terms Winson Phu/Derreck Ali

2. Characters Figure Of Speech Choice Of Words Poetry Terms Miscellaneous 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50

3. Characters – 10 Points • QUESTION: • A ___________________ has only one or two personality traits. They are one dimensional, like a piece of cardboard. They can be summed up in a one line phrase. • ANSWER: • Flat Character

4. Characters – 20 Points • QUESTION: • A _________________ is a character who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action. • ANSWER: • Dynamic Character

5. Characters – 30 Points • QUESTION: • A character who does not experience dramatic change is a _______________. • ANSWER: • Static Character

6. Characters – 40 Points • QUESTION: • Having contradiction and opposition in a character’s mind is _________________ • ANSWER: • Internal Conflict

7. Characters – 50 Points • QUESTION: • ___________________ is the comparison of the contrasting traits of the characters, this helps the readers to not only understand their personalities but also to comprehend the importance of their roles in a work of literature. This is important in the development of characters. • ANSWER: • Character Foil

8. Figure of Speech– 10 Points • QUESTION: • _________________ ,a metaphor (a direct comparison without using like or as) that is extended or developed throughout a passage. • ANSWER: • Extended Metaphor

9. Figure of Speech– 20 Points • QUESTION: • “The chair begged not to be sat on” is an example of __________________. • ANSWER: • Personification

10. Figure of Speech – 30 Points • QUESTION: • “Timmy traveled to Terrorist Town” is an example of _______________. • ANSWER: • Alliteration

11. Figure of Speech – 40 Points • QUESTION: • A _________ is a phrase that has little to no meaning at all because of constant overuse. • ANSWER: • Cliché

12. Figure of Speech – 50 Points • QUESTION: • “What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp. Dare its deadly terrors clasp?” (from The Tyger, William Blake) is an example of __________. • ANSWER: • Anaphora

13. Choice of Words – 10 Points • QUESTION: • A speaker or writer’s choice of words” is the definition of _______. • ANSWER: • Diction

14. Choice of Words – 20 Points • QUESTION: • ___________ , A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or the inhabitants of a certain geographical area. • ANSWER: • Dialect

15. Choice of Words – 30 Points • QUESTION: • __________________: When someone says something, but means something else. • ANSWER: • Verbal Irony

16. Choice of Words – 40 Points • QUESTION: • Romeo: "Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes/With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead/So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.” is an example of ____. • ANSWER: • Pun

17. Choice of Words – 50 Points • QUESTION: • “And being no stranger to the art of war, I have him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea-fights…” is an example of ______________. • ANSWER: • Cacophony

18. Poetry Terms – 10 Points • QUESTION: • A ___________________ is two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry. • ANSWER: • Rhyming Couplet

19. Poetry Terms – 20 Points • QUESTION: • A _____________ is a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered a unit. • ANSWER: • Quatrain

20. Poetry Terms – 30 Points • QUESTION: • _______________ is a type of poetry which avoids the patterns of regular rhyme or meter. Rhyme may be used, but with great freedom. The poet often will reply upon diction, imagery, and syntax to create a coherent whole. • ANSWER: • Free Verse

21. Poetry Terms – 40 Points • QUESTION: • A __________ is a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself. • ANSWER: • Symbol

22. Poetry Terms – 50 Points • QUESTION: • “Dead ! //One of them shot by the sea in the east” is an example of __________. • ANSWER: • Caesura

23. Miscellaneous – 10 Points • QUESTION: • _____________ is the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot. • ANSWER: • Foreshadowing

24. Miscellaneous – 20 Points • QUESTION: • A ___________ is a statement that appears self-contradictory, but reveals a kind of truth. • ANSWER: • Paradox

25. Miscellaneous – 30 Points • QUESTION: • _____________ refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity. Also referred to as parallel construction or parallel structure. • ANSWER: • Parallelism

26. Miscellaneous – 40 Points • QUESTION: • “Learnèd Faustus, to find the secrets of astronomy Graven in the book of Jove’s high firmament, did mount him up to scale Olympus’ top, where, sitting in a chariot burning bright, drawn by the strength of yokèd dragons’ necks, he views the clouds, the planets, and the stars.” • ANSWER: • Allusion

27. Miscellaneous – 50 Points • QUESTION: • The role of ________ is to ridicule or criticize those vices in the society, which the writer considers a threat to civilization. The writer considers it his obligation to expose these vices for the betterment of humanity. • ANSWER: • Satire