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AP ENGLISH LIT &
COMP
Semester II
JEOPARDY!
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• Fabulous prizes may be at stake.
• Rules….
• I am the decider of all things.
• No crybabies allowed.
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The lifeguard’s lying “in a stable,” by the leap “of a fish,” by
the imagined miracle of
walking upon the water, by the wished for miracle of
restoring the dead to life, and by the lifeguard’s desire to be
a “savior,” poet James Dickey in his poem “The Lifeguard”
establishes a pattern that can best be described as a cluster
of religious/Christ-like _____________.
What is a cluster of
religious/Christ-like
allusions?
“If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul the fixed foot,
makes no show
To move, but doth, if th’ other do.”
(John Donne, “A Valediction! Forbidding
Mourning”)
This literary term describes an elaborate figure of speech
comparing two very dissimilar things. An extended
comparison such as the one above, which compares the love
of two souls to two parts of a compass, is a device known as
__________.
What is a CONCEIT?
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There's been a death in the opposite house
As lately as to-day.
I know it by the numb look
Such houses have alway.
The neighbors rustle in and out,
The doctor drives away.
A window opens like a pod,
Abrupt, mechanically;
Somebody flings a mattress out, -The children hurry by;
They wonder if
It died on that, -I used to when a boy.
The minister goes stiffly in
As if the house were his,
And he owned all the mourners now,
And little boys besides;
And then the milliner, and the man
Of the appalling trade,
To take the measure of the house.
There'll be that dark parade
Of tassels and of coaches soon;
It's easy as a sign, -The intuition of the news
In just a country town.
• Emily Dickinson’s
use of the word
“house” to reflect
not just the house
itself, but also the
activity and the
people around and
within it,
exemplifies the
use of ___________.
What is METONOMY?
“Had we but world enough, and time
This coyness, lady, were no crime…
But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.”
(Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”)
The philosophy expressed in the above lines is referred to as
____________.
What is CARPE DIEM?
A literary term reflected in the underlined
sections:
“And I do smile, such cordial light” (Emily
Dickinson, “My Life Had Stood, A Loaded Gun”)
“ My words like silent rain drops fell…” (Paul
Simon “Sounds of Silence”)
What is ASSONANCE?
A literary term reflected in the underlined sections:
“The splendour falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.”
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Blow, Blow, Blow”)
What is INTERNAL RHYME?
In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” the fork in the road
represents a major decision in life, each road a
separate way of life. This is an example of ___________.
What is SYMBOLISM?
“The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard”
(Robert Frost, “Out, Out”)
The literary term exemplified in
the line is known as _________.
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
“O
loss of sight, of thee I most complain!”
(John Milton,
“Sampson Agonistes”)
“My
friend, you would not tell with such high zest…”
(Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”)
“Death, be not proud..” (John Donne, “Holy Sonnet #10)
The literary term exemplified in the lines is known as
_________.
What is APOSTROPHE?
Words like “bitter,” “ambivalent,” “sardonic,” or
“sentimental” that can be used to refer to the
author’s or speaker’s attitude about his/her subject are
referred to as
What is TONE?
“Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!” (William
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)
The literary term exemplified in the line is known as _________.
What is OXYMORON?
“This holy time is quiet as a nun” (William Wordsworth, “On the
Beach at Calais”)
The literary term exemplified in the line is known as _________.
What is a SIMILE?
“He clasps the crag with crooked hands” (Alfred, Lord
Tennyson, “The Eagle”)
Bright black-eyed creature, brushed with brown.”
(Robert Frost, “To a Moth Seen in Winter”)
The literary term exemplified in the underlined section of the lines above
is known as _________.
What is ALLITERATION?
“Death is the broom
I take in my hands
To sweep the world clean.” (Langston Hughes, “War”)
OR
“My body was the house,
And everything he’d touched, an exposed nerve.”
(Stephen Spender, “Empty House”)
What is METAPHOR?
“…and high school girls with clear skin smiles…” (Janis Ian,
“At Seventeen”)
“The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist;
austere towers of steel and cement and limestone,
sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.” (Sinclair
Lewis, from Babbitt)
What is CONSONANCE?
“I have seen this river so wide it had only one bank.”
(Mark Twain)
What is HYPERBOLE?
“This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.”
(William Shakespeare, “That Time of Year”)
What is a COUPLET?
The sustained references to literature,
such as the Holy Sonnets, of John
Donne in Wit or references to biblical
characters or events, such as the
parrot named “Methuselah” in The
Poisonwood Bible, are examples of
What is ALLUSION?
Reversing the normal order
of sentence parts;
Shakespeare does this
often
What is INVERSION?
DAILY DOUBLE
Place your bet
“I am silver and exact. I have no
preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful—” (Silvia Plath,
“Mirror”)
Plath uses this literary device in the lines
from the poem “Mirror”
What is PERSONIFICATION?
“Nights dark beyond darkness and the days
more gray each one than what had gone
before.”
Cormac McCarthy The Road (p. 1).
The bolded section is and example of
_______
What is HYPERBOLE?
“There was a lake a mile from his uncle’s farm where he and his uncle
used to go in the fall for firewood. He sat in the back of the rowboat
trailing his hand in the cold wake while his uncle bent to the oars. The old
man’s feet in their black kid shoes braced against the uprights. His straw
hat. His cob pipe in his teeth and a thin drool swinging from the
pipebowl.”
Cormac McCarthy. The Road (p. 10).
The narrative moves from the present
circumstances to recall a memory. The
name of this literary technique
What is a FLASHBACK?
“She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies:
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:”
( Lord Byron, “She Walks in Beauty”)
The colored words is how we know the
_____________ ____________ of a poem.
What is RYHME SCHEME?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
The form of this poem
What is a Shakespearean/
Elizabethean/English
sonnet?
DAILY DOUBLE
Wager Time!
“…teach them silence,
to listen to the air
brushing sunlight on leaves,
the soft stroking of wind quills
on leaves, sisst-sist-sist,
slowly drawing across the leaf, leaving
thin streaks of yellow, then turning them red
and gold—“ (Jimmy Santiago Baca, “As
Life Was (Seven)”)
The previous lines from Baca’s poem
contain multiple examples of _____
What is IMAGERY? (visual,
sound, tactile)
FINAL JEOPARDY
QUESTION
Score Keepers: What’s
the score?
Teams:
Make your
final wager now
“Query: How does the never to be differ from what
never was?”
(p. 30) & “But he stopped making things up
because those things were not true either and
the telling made him feel bad. The child had
his own fantasies. How things would be in the
south. Other children. He tried to
keep a rein on this but his heart was not in it.
Whose would be?”
Cormac McCarthy. The Road (p. 52) are
examples of
What are RHETORICAL
QUESTIONS?