Literary Techniques & Devices
A Doll's House
Frankenstein
The Exam
Miscellaneous
100
The name of a comparison using like or as.
What is simile?
100
The author of "A Doll's House".
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
100
The author of this novel.
Who is Mary Shelley?
100
The length of the AP Exam in hours.
What is 3 hours?
100
The author of "Sonny's Blues".
Who is James Baldwin?
200
When something is exaggerated using language.
What is hyperbole?
200
The holiday season around which the play takes place.
What is Christmas?
200
The era/movement during which this novel was written.
What is the Romantic movement/era.
200
The percent breakdown of the multiple choice and essay portion.
What is 55/45?
200
The author of "The Cathedral"?
Who is Raymond Carver?
300
The definition of an allusion.
What is a reference in literature, to a person, place, thing in history or another work of literature? (Usually well-known)
300
The type of dance that Nora does.
What is the tarantella?
300
The name of the man that saves Frankenstein from freezing in the Arctic.
Who is Robert Walton.
300
The three types of essays in the exam.
What is the poetry essay, prose essay, and free response essay?
300
The missing word(s) in the following poem: In Xanadu did _______________ A stately pleasure dome decree
What is Kubla Khan?
400
Name four elements of style as it pertains to language.
What is diction, figurative language, imagery, syntax, tone/mood?
400
The food item that Nora has at the beginning of the play.
What are macaroons?
400
What was the job of Justine Moritz's father?
What is a merchant?
400
The date of the AP Exam this year.
What is May 8, 2014?
400
The author of "Ozymandias".
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
500
Dunkin' Donuts, Best Buy, Coca-Cola and American Apparel, are all examples of this literary device.
What is alliteration?
500
Helmer declares that Nora is these two things when he says, "before all else, (Nora is) a ____ and ________".
What are a wife and mother?
500
How many deaths were there in Frankenstein?
What is 7/8? (Frankenstein's mother, William, Justine, Henry Clerval, Elizabeth, Frankenstein's father, Frankenstein, the monster)
500
The year of the earliest AP Literature exam.
What is 1956?
500
Ms. Lee's SAT score in high school.
What is 1910?
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