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AP Lang & Comp Terms Batch #3 (Review Game Version)
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#1 Identify the device being used: “I came, I saw, I conquered.” (Attributed to Julius Caesar)
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Answer #1 Asyndeton The omission of coordinating conjunctions, such as in a series.
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#2 Identify the literary device/term: A character who illuminates the qualities of another character by means of contrast.
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Answer #2 foil
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#3 Identify the device being used: Want to take a ride in my new wheels?
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Answer #3 Synecdoche A figure of speech in which a PART of an entity is used to refer to the whole.
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#4 Identify the device being used: “My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose” (title of a poem by Robert Burns)
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Answer #4 Simile A comparison of two unlike things through the use of like or as
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#5 Identify the device being used: A cruel wind
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Answer #5 Personification/pathetic fallacy The attribution of human feeling or motivation to a nonhuman object, esp. an object found in nature.
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#6 Identify the device being used: In the stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, characters, objects, and events often symbolize moral qualities.
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Answer #6 Allegory A narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning in an allegory, each elements symbolizes something else.
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#7 Identify the device being used: Appointing a Wall Street insider to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission is like telling a fox to guard the henhouse.
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Answer #7 Analogy A comparison based on a specific similarity between things that are otherwise unlike, or inference that if two things are alike in some ways, they will be alike in others. Often analogies draw a comparison between something abstract and something more concrete or easier to visualize.
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#8 Identify the literary device/term: A fundamental and universal idea explored in a literary work.
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Answer #8 theme
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#9 Identify the literary device/term: The way the words in a piece of writing are put together to form lines, phrases, or clauses; the basic structure of a piece of writing.
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Answer #9 syntax
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#10 Identify the device being used: “[F]or there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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Answer #10 Aphorism A concise expression of insight or wisdom.
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#11 Identify the device being used: He is not unfriendly.
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Answer #11 Litotes Deliberate understatement, in which an idea or opinion is often affirmed by negating its opposite.
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#12 Identify the device being used: “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 3.2.20-21)
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Answer #12 Antithesis The contrasting of ideas by the use of parallel structure in phrases and clauses.
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#13 Identify the device being used: “The vanity of others offends our taste only when it offends our vanity.” (Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil)
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Answer #13 Aphorism A concise expression of insight or wisdom.
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#14 Identify the device being used: “Be one of the few, the proud, the Marines.” (Marine Corps advertisement)
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Answer #14 Asyndeton The omission of coordinating conjunctions, such as in a series.
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#15 Identify the device being used: “Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.” (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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Answer #15 Paradox A statement that seems absurd or even contradictory but that often expresses a deeper truth.
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#16 Identify the device being used: Referring to business people as “suits”
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Answer #16 Metonymy A figure of speech in which something is referred to by one of its attributes.
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#17 Identify the device being used: Romeo loves Juliet and Juliet, Romeo.
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Answer #17 Ellipsis A figure of speech in which a word or short phrase is omitted but easily understood from the context.
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#18 Identify the device being used: Firefighters are usually brave and friendly. Jim Potter is a firefighter. So, he is probably brave and friendly.
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Answer #18 Deductive reasoning Reasoning in which one derives a specific conclusion from something generally or universally understood to be true.
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#19 Identify the literary device/term: A literary style in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as I.
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Answer #19 First-person point of view
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#20 Identify the device being used: They had a great thirst for viewing new paintings.
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Answer #20 Synaesthesia The use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another.
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#21 Identify the literary device/term: The point of view through which a subject or its parts are mentally perceived.
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Answer #21 perspective
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#22 Identify the literary device/term: The use of objects, characters, figures, or colors to represent abstract ideas or concepts. (Have different meanings in different contexts)
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Answer #22 Symbolism
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#23 Identify the literary device/term: Focusing on the explicit meaning of words only, and not dealing with context, connotation, figurative language, or other elements that add deeper shades of meaning to a text.
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Answer #23 Literal
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#24 Identify the literary device/term: The process of proving something wrong by argument or evidence.
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Answer #24 Refutation
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#25 Identify the device being used: Turn over a new leaf.
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Answer #25 Cliché An expression that has been used so frequently, it has lost its expressive power.
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