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QUESTIONS FOR AP
TYPES OF THINGS
WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?
100
A CHARACTER THAT EMPHASIZES A QUALITY OF ANOTHER CHARACTER BY MEANS OF CONTRAST.
What is A FOIL
100
A POEM WRITTEN IN UNRHYMED IAMBIC PENTAMETER
What is BLANK VERSE
100
A STORY THAT HAS A SECOND MEANING BENEATH THE SURFACE ONE. FOR EXAMPLE THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
What is AN ALLEGORY
100
From W.H Auden’s poem “As I Walked One Evening”, I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I’ll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry....EXAMPLE OF....?
What is HYPERBOLE
100
"ALL HANDS ON DECK" AND " BOSTON DEFEATED NEW YORK 106 TO 96" ARE EXAMPLES OF....
What is A SYNECOCHE
200
THE USE OF HUMOR TO EXPOSE FLAWS OR CRITICIZE SOMETHING OR SOMEONE.
What is SATIRE
200
A FORMAL SUSTAINED POEM LAMENTING THE DEATH OF A PARTICULAR PERSON
What is AN ELEGY
200
TERM USED TO DESCRIBE FICTION OR NONFICTION THAT TEACHES A SPECIFIC LESSON OR MORAL
What is DIDACTIC
200
THE OVERALL FEELING OR ATMOSPHERE A PIECE OF LITERATURE CREATES IN THE THE READER.
What is MOOD
200
A WRITER'S ATTITUDE TOWARD THEIR SUBJECT IS ...
What is TONE
300
EXAMPLE OF THIS TERM: SHE DISCOVERED NEW YORK AND HER WORLD
What is ZEUGMA
300
"BOUNCING BABY BUGGY BUMPERS"
What is ALLITERATION?
300
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” TALE OF 2 CITIES. CHARLES DICKENS..EXAMPLE OF....?
What is ANAPHORA
300
METAPHORS AND SIMILES ARE BOTH TYPES OF...?
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
300
“ I will confess to you that I love him” Juliet(IV.I.25) Paris thinks that Juliet means him, but she is actually talking about Romeo.This is an example of
What is VERBAL IRONY
400
IN JONATHAN SWIFT'S "A MODEST PROPOSAL" HE SUGGESTS EATING THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR AS A WAY TO SAVE MONEY. HIS REAL INTENT IS TO INSPIRE A CHANGE IN ATTITUDE TOWARD THE POOR. HIS WRITING IS AN EXAMPLE OF....
What is SATIRE
400
THE ONLY WAY A CHARACTER IN A PLAY CAN REVEAL THEIR INNER THOUGHTS TO THE AUDIENCE
What is SOLILOQUY
400
Here’s much to do with hate but more with love. Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first created! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health", R&J
What is ANTITHESIS
400
“Shall I Compare Thee to a summer’s Day” OR Her voice is music to his ears. OR I am the ocean entire. ARE EXAMPLES OF WHAT TYPE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE?
What is METAPHOR
400
A WRITER'S ATTITUDE TOWARD HIS SUBJECT....
What is TONE
500
"MORE RAPID THAN EAGLES HIS COURSERS THEY CAME." "MY LOVE IS LIKE A HURRICANE" ARE EXAMPLES OF WHAT ....?
What is SIMILES
500
AN ESSENTIAL PART OF A CHARACTER'S PERSONALITY OR A CHOICE THEY MAKE THAT LEADS TO THEIR DOWNFALL.
What is A TRAGIC FLAW
500
“Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You.” IS AN EXAMPLE OF....?
What is CHIASMUS
500
A FREQUENTLY RECURRENT CHARACTER, INCIDENT, OR CONCEPT IN LITERATURE
What is MOTIF
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