Review Jeopardy AP ENGLISH Semester I
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General LIT. TERMS Terms of Comedy Tragic Terms Language Terms Gimme a “P”
A brief narrative of an entertaining and presumably true incident
What is an ANECDOTE?
The device, usually in poetry, of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place, thing, personified abstraction
What is an APOSTROPHE?
A comparison of similar things, often for the purpose of using something familiar to explain something unfamiliar
What is an ANALOGY?
A term used in literary criticism to identify the sense a written work conveys to a reader of its writer’s attitude, personality, and character
What is VOICE?
The making of “pictures in words”; the pictorial quality of a literary work achieved though a collection of images
What is IMAGERY?
A figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression, giving the effect of a condensed paradox
What is an OXYMORON?
In literature, a character who represents a trait generally attributed to a social or racial group and lacks other individualizing traits
What is a STEREOTYPE?
Obvious, extravagant exaggeration or overstatement, not intended to be taken literally, but used figuratively to create humor or emphasis
What is HYPERBOLE?
A type of comedy, primarily visual, that depends for laughs on outlandish situations, stereotyped characters, and exaggerated, often abusive physical action
What is a FARCE?
An elaborate figure of speech comparing two dissimilar things; an overdeveloped or far- fetched figure of speech
What is a CONCEIT?
Overweening pride
What is HUBRIS?
The quality in a work of art or literature that arouses feelings of sympathy, pity, or sorrow in the viewer or the reader
What is PATHOS?
A figure of speech that substitutes the name of a related object, person, or idea for the subject at hand, such as “crown” as a substitute for king or ruler
What is METONYMY?
The Greek term for tragic flaw, weakness of character or error in judgment, which causes the downfall of the hero
What is HAMARTIA?
Recognition or discovery on the part of the hero; change from ignorance to knowledge
What is ANAGNORISIS?
The reflection in a work of the author’s attitude toward his/her subject, characters, and readers
What is TONE?
A figure of speech in which human characteristics and sensibilities are attributed to animals, plants, inanimate objects, natural forces, or abstract ideas
What is PERSONIFICATION?
A figure of speech in which opposing or contrasting ideas are balanced against each other in grammatically parallel structure
What is ANTITHESIS?
Shoots a huge metal ball in warfare; or in literary terms: any group of writings that has been established as authentic; more specifically, those books of the Christian Bible
What is the CANON?
DAILY DOUBLE
The way an author organizes words, sentences, and overall argument to achieve a particular purpose such as persuasion, exposition, analysis, or narration in a particular piece of writing
What is RHETORICAL PURPOSE (STRATEGY)?
Just when things are looking up for Oedipus, his fortune is reversed
What is PERIPETEIA?
Presenting another writer’s ideas as your own
What is a PLAGIARISM?
Duke Orsino: “If music be the food of love, ______ on.”
What is PLAY?
Entrance ode by the chorus
What is PARADOS?
“To be, or not to be: that is what really matters” is an awful ___________ of the famous opening lines of Hamlet’s suicide soliloquy
What is a PARAPHRASE?
DAILY DOUBLE
“Flying through the air on the wings of a dream…” is an example of this verbal brush stroke that will pump up your prose
What is a PARTICIPLE? What is a PARTICIPLE?
FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION
George Meredith said this makes us laugh first, then pause and reflect
What is THOUGHTFUL LAUGHTER?