AP Lang & Comp Terms
Batch #2
(Review Game Version)
#1
Identify the device being used:
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player /
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage.”
(Shakespeare, Macbeth, 5.5.24-25)
Answer #1
Metaphor
• The comparison of unlike things without
the use of like or as
#2
Identify the literary device/term:
Greek for “wisdom” or “reason”; in the
context of rhetoric, refers to the process of
persuading by means of logic and reason,
as opposed to style, authority, or emotion.
Answer #2
Logos
#3
Identify the literary device/term:
A short narrative that illustrates a moral by
means of allegory (in which literal meaning
and symbolic meaning correspond clearly
and directly).
Answer #3
Parable
#4
Identify the device being used:
“No man is an island.”
(John Donne, “Meditation 17”)
Answer #4
Metaphor
The comparison of unlike things without the
use of like or as
#5
Identify the device being used:
Saying “that was graceful” when someone
trips and falls
Answer #5
Sarcasm
A simple form of verbal irony, in which it is
obvious from context and tone that the
speaker means the opposite of what he or
she says
#6
Identify the device being used:
Bow-wow. Crackle. Buzz. Zoom.
Answer #6
Onomatopoeia
The use of words that sound like the thing or
action to which they refer
#7
Identify the literary device/term:
The explicit, literal meaning of a word.
Answer #7
Denotation
#8
Identify the device being used:
Four out of five dentists surveyed
recommend sugarless gum for their
patients who chew gum.
Answer #8
Expert opinion
• The citation of accredited authorities in
support of an argument
#9
Identify the literary device/term:
Language that brings to mind senseimpressions, especially via figures of
speech
Answer #9
Imagery
#10
Identify the device being used:
The detectives don’t follow the same rules
as the uniforms.
Answer #10
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is
referred to by one of its attributes.
#11
Identify the literary device/term:
A figure of speech in which a word pr short
phrase is omitted, but easily understood
from the context; also the marks (…) that
indicates the omission of a word or
phrase.
Answer #11
Ellipsis
#12
• The following are examples:
– Wise fool
– New antiques
– Hot ice
Answer #12
Oxymoron
The association of two contradictory terms.
#13
Identify the literary device/term:
One of the types of literature, such as short
stories, poetry, drama, and novels, or one
of the categories within those types, such
as romance, science fiction, mystery, and
melodrama.
Answer #13
Genre
#14
Identify the literary device/term:
To present ideas, images, events, or
comments that hint at events to come in a
story.
Answer #14
Foreshadow
#15
Identify the literary device/term:
From the Greek word for “feeling”; the
quality in a work of literature that evokes
high emotion, most commonly sorrow, pity,
or compassion.
Answer #15
pathos
#16
Identify the literary device/term:
A conversation between two or more
speakers; also an exchange of ideas.
Answer #16
dialogue
#17
Identify the device being used:
“The handsome houses on the street
to the college were not fully awake,
but they looked very friendly.”
(Lionel Trilling, “Of This Time, of That Place”)
Answer #17
Personification
The use of human characteristics to
describe animals, objects, or ideas.
#18
Identify the literary device/term:
An explanation of the meaning or purpose of
a piece of writing, especially one that is
difficult to understand.
Answer #18
Expository
#19
Identify the device being used:
In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Oedipus vows
to discover his father’s murderer, not
knowing, as the audience does, that he
himself is the murderer.
Answer #19
Dramatic irony (also called tragic irony)
A technique in which the author lets the
reader in on a character’s situation while
the character remains in the dark; thus the
character’s words and actions carry a
significance that he or she is not aware of.
#20
Identify the device being used:
“My Life has stood—a Loaded Gun—”
(Emily Dickinson, untitled poem)
Answer #20
Metaphor
The comparison of unlike things without the
use of like or as
#21
Identify the device being used:
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight
on the landing grounds, we shall fight in
the fields and in the streets, we shall fight
in the hills.”
(Winston S. Churchill, “We Shall Fight on the
Beaches”)
Answer #21
Anaphora
Repeated use of a word or phrase at the
START of successive phrases or
sentences for effect (Not, oh look! All the
sentences begin with “the”!)
#22
Identify the device being used:
One thousand sails pursued Paris when he
fled with Helen of Troy.
Answer #22
Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a part of an
entity is used to refer to the whole (The
SHIPS went after Helen, not just the sails
of the ships)
#23
Identify the device being used:
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “The
Minister’s Black Veil,” the black veil worn
by one of the characters represents the
sins that members of his Puritan
community are hiding.
Answer #23
Symbol
A concrete object that is made to represent
something abstract.
#24
Identify the device being used:
“As Caesar loved me, I weep for him.
As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it.
As he was valiant, I honor him.
But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”
(Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 3.2.23-25)
Answer #24
Anaphora
Repeated use of a word or phrase at the
START of successive phrases or
sentences for effect
#25
Identify the literary device/term:
The main character around whom a story
revolves.
Answer #25
Protagonist