Review
Jeopardy
AP ENGLISH
Semester I
JEOPARDY!
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JEOPARDY!
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General LIT.
TERMS
Terms of
Comedy
Tragic Terms
Language
Terms
Gimme a “P”
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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 farfetched 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?
FINAL JEOPARDY
QUESTION
George Meredith said this
makes us laugh first, then
pause and reflect
What is THOUGHTFUL
LAUGHTER?