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AP ENGLISH
Semester II
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A brief narrative of an
entertaining and
presumably true incident
What is an ANECDOTE?
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 ___________
What is THEME?
"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
What is ANAPHORA?
“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
What is LITERARY
CRITICISM?
The speaker of a poem
What is PERSONA?
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?
"We will not be satisfied
until justice rolls down like
waters and righteousness
like a mighty stream”
contains examples of
____________________ and
________________. terms
What is
SIMILE and PARALLELISM?
Dylan Thomas' poem about
his father's approaching
death, titled “Do not go
Gentle into That
Good Night" contains an
example of
What is EUPHEMISM?
(“Good Night” = death)
“Greed,” “death,” “man’s
inhumanity to man,” or “journey
to adulthood” can best be
described as
What is a MOTIF?
The statement “Greed,
inhumanity, and dark struggles
are not confined to just one
region, but
occur everywhere,” can best
be described as
What is a THEME
STATEMENT?
Overweening pride
What is HUBRIS?
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
What is FRAME STORY?
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?
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.)
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
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
What is a PUN?
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
What is EXTENDED
METAPHOR?
A figure of speech in which
opposing or contrasting
ideas are balanced against
each other in grammatically
parallel structure
What is ANTITHESIS?
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 property of seeming
true, of resembling reality;
resemblance to reality,
realism
What is VERISMILITUDE?
A sudden or unexpected reversal
of circumstances or situation
especially in a literary work
What is PERIPETEIA?
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
What is ANAGNORISIS?
A revealing scene or
moment ; an illuminating
discovery, realization, or
disclosure
What is an EPIPHANY?
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
Simultaneous and contradictory
attitudes or feelings (as attraction
and repulsion) toward an object,
person, or action
What is an
AMBIVELANCE?
FINAL JEOPARDY
QUESTION
A word or expression that can
be understood in two or more
possible ways; uncertainty
What is
AMBIGUITY?