Attribution of human form or other characteristics to anything other than a human being
What is Anthropomorphism
100
-Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
-Man proposes, God disposes.
What is
Antithesis
100
What is Mrs. Daniel's middle name?
What is Rhea.(I don't know if that's the right spelling)
100
I must be cruel to be kind is an example of......
What is paradox
100
Irony
What is Oscar Wilde
200
In literature, apostrophe is a figure of speech sometimes represented by exclamation “O”. A writer or a speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech.
What is Apostrophe
200
“Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,
Shrunk to this little measure?”
(Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare)
What is Asyndeton
200
What was the first book we read in AP Lit this year?
What is Dracula
200
Easy come, easy ...... is an example of parallelism
What is go
200
Anthropomorphism
What is George Orwell
300
One sentence where the clause (or clauses) seem to contradict each other.
What is Chiasmus
300
“I drank a lot of water, then went to the gym, and afterwards I slept.”
What is Cumulative
300
Which school has more West Po seniors attending, UVA or VT?
What is UVA
300
A ..... and ..... involved sentence, marked by a suspended syntax, in which the sentence is not completed until the final word is periodic.
What is long, frequently
300
Verbal Irony
What is William Shakespear
400
A very extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole
400
On the chair John sat
What is Inversion
400
What sport does Katie D play?
What is Tennis
400
The ...... of conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect
What is repetition
400
Polysyndeton
What is Ernest Hemingway
500
Using words to convey the opposite of what you truly mean
What is irony
500
He went to class, even though he was tired
What is Opposition
500
When is the girls rugby senior game and where?
What is May 10th, West Potomac. BE THERE!
500
A series of ...... parallel words, phrases, or clauses is a tricolon