1. Batch #5 (Review Game Version)
AP Lang & Comp Terms
Batch #5
(Review Game Version)

2. #1 Identify the literary term/device:
The perspective that a narrative takes toward the events it describes.

3. Answer #1
Point of view

4. Identify the literary device being used:#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.

5. Answer #2 Expert opinion
The citation of accredited authorities in support of an argument

6. Identify the literary term/device:#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.

7. Answer #3
Anachronism

8. Identify the literary term/device:#4
Identify the literary term/device:
The moment of greatest intensity in a text, or the major turning point in the plot.

9. Answer #4
climax

10. #5 Identify the literary term/device:
A cleansing or purification of one’s emotions through art.

11. Answer #5
catharsis

12. Identify the literary term/device:#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.

13. Answer #6
propaganda

14. #7 Identify the literary device being used:
“I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
(Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, )

15. Answer #7
Antithesis
The contrasting of ideas by the use of parallel structure in phrases or clauses

16. Identify the literary term/device:#8
Identify the literary term/device:
A humorous and often satirical imitation of the style or particular work of another author.

17. Answer #8
parody

18. #9 Identify the literary device being used:
The crown carries many responsibilities.

19. Answer #9
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by one of its attributes.

20. Identify the literary term/device:
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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.

21. Answer #10
Convention

22. Identify the literary term/device:
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Identify the literary term/device:
A narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning.

23. Answer #11
Allegory

24. Identify the literary term/device:
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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.

25. Answer #12
Ambiguity

26. #13 Identify the literary device being used:
“Barber, baby, bubbles, and a bumblebee”
(Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Book)

27. Answer #13
Alliteration
The repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words.

28. Identify the literary term/device:
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Identify the literary term/device:
In an argument, a person cited because his or her opinion carries special weight or credibility.

29. Answer #14
Authority

30. #15 Identify the literary term/device:
Any composition not written in verse

31. Answer #15
Prose

32. Identify the literary term/device:
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Identify the literary term/device:
A yearning for the past or for some condition or state of existence that cannot be recovered.

33. Answer #16
Nostalgia

34. #17 Identify the literary device being used:
It’s nothing. I’m just bleeding to death is all.

35. Answer #17
Litotes
Deliberate understatement, in which an idea or opinion is often affirmed by negating its opposite.

36. #18 Identify the literary device being used:
I’ve told you this a million times already.

37. Answer #18
Hyperbole
Excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact.

38. Identify the literary term/device:
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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.

39. Answer #19
Third person objective point of view
(objective narration)

40. Identify the literary term/device:
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Identify the literary term/device:
A work that exposes to ridicule the shortcomings of individuals, institutions, or society, often to make a political point.

41. Answer #20
satire

42. Identify the literary term/device:
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Identify the literary term/device:
Specific word choice used in a piece of writing, often chosen for effect but also for correctness and clarity.

43. Answer #21
diction

44. #22 Examples of this literary device: Same difference Jumbo shrimp
Soft rock

45. Answer #22
Oxymoron
The association of two contradictory terms

46. Identify the literary term/device:
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Identify the literary term/device:
The location of a narrative in time and space; helps to create mood or atmosphere.

47. Answer #23
Setting

48. Identify the literary term/device:
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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.

49. Answer #24
Rhetorical device

50. Identify the literary term/device:
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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.

51. Answer #25
Audience