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 ones emotions through art.

Answer #5 catharsis

#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.

Answer #6 propaganda

#7 Identify the literary device being used: I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, )

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. Seusss 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: Its nothing. Im 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: Ive 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