2. Review Jeopardy AP ENGLISH Semester II

3. Click Once to Begin JEOPARDY! Fabulous prizes may be at stake. Rules…. I am the decider of all things. No crybabies allowed.

4. Almost done! Finish Well! Stay Strong! Be a Giver! Say Goodbye to your Teachers! 200 400 600 800 1000

5. A brief narrative of an entertaining and presumably true incident

6. What is an ANECDOTE?

7. The following passage could be said to express an idea about human experience, human motivation, or the human condition that the author suggests in the work: “All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain.” Cormac McCarthy The Road (p. 52). The term for this kind of idea is ___________

8. What is THEME?

9. "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives....But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate--we cannot consecrate--we cannot hallow--this ground” contains an example of

10. What is ANAPHORA?

11. “Beyond the immediate struggle for survival, the deep struggle explored in The Road is that of raising a child in a world without hope; and for the boy, the complementary challenge of assuming the responsibilities of manhood in such a world. There would seem to be nothing to sustain these two—the natural world exists only in effigy, and the remaining humans have mostly sacrificed their humanity as the price of survival. Yet the boy is constantly seeking to define a moral structure he can live by—one that accounts for the fact that his father doesn't help stray people on the road, but still ensures their own distinction from the cannibals.” These comments from Slate.com can best be described as

12. What is LITERARY CRITICISM?

13. The speaker of a poem

14. What is PERSONA?

15. A figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression, giving the effect of a condensed paradox

16. What is an OXYMORON?

17. "We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream” contains examples of "We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream” contains examples of ____________________ and ________________. terms

18. What is SIMILE and PARALLELISM?

19. Dylan Thomas' poem about his father's approaching death, titled “Do not go Gentle into That Good Night" contains an example of

20. What is EUPHEMISM? (“Good Night” = death)

21. “Greed,” “death,” “man’s inhumanity to man,” or “journey to adulthood” can best be described as

22. What is a MOTIF?

23. The statement “Greed, inhumanity, and dark struggles are not confined to just one region, but occur everywhere,” can best be described as

24. What is a THEME STATEMENT?

25. Overweening pride

26. What is HUBRIS?

27. A narrative structure containing a “story within a story” in which one character opens the story and prepares the stage for another character or characters who narrate parts of the story as seen in works like The Poisonwood Bible is referred to as

28. What is FRAME STORY?

29. 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

30. What is METONYMY?

31. The Greek term for tragic flaw, weakness of character or error in judgment, which causes the downfall of the hero

32. What is HAMARTIA?

33. In the Billy Collins poem “The History Teacher,” the difference between what we know as readers and what the history teacher in the poem understands about his students may be described as _______. (This is also a primary device to induce pathos in Oedipus the King.)

34. What is DRAMATIC IRONY?

35. In the Billy Collins poem “The History Teacher,” the word Boer is a form of wit that involves a play on words best described as

36. What is a PUN?

37. A comparison such as the Congo River to a snake in Heart of Darkness that is developed through several references within a passage is described as a/an

38. What is EXTENDED METAPHOR?

39. A figure of speech in which opposing or contrasting ideas are balanced against each other in grammatically parallel structure

40. What is ANTITHESIS?

41. In literary terms: any group of writings that has been established as authentic; more specifically, those books of the Christian Bible

42. What is the CANON?

43. DAILY DOUBLE

44. The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism

45. What is VERISMILITUDE?

46. A sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances or situation especially in a literary work

47. What is PERIPETEIA?

48. The point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his or her or some other character's true identity or discovers the true nature of his or her own situation

49. What is ANAGNORISIS?

50. A revealing scene or moment ; an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure

51. What is an EPIPHANY?

52. Entrance ode by the chorus

53. What is PARADOS?

54. “To be, or not to be: that is what really matters” is an awful ___________ of the famous opening lines of Hamlet’s suicide soliloquy

55. What is a PARAPHRASE?

56. DAILY DOUBLE

57. S S imultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action

58. What is an AMBIVELANCE? What is an AMBIVELANCE?

59. FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION

60. A word or expression that can be understood in two or more possible ways; uncertainty

61. What is AMBIGUITY?