Use of a character, an object, a place, action, or situation, that means something more than its literal meaning.
What is Symbol?
100
This character is identified by the green light
What is Great Gatsby?
200
A complete narrative that can also be applied to a parallel set of situations that may be political, moral, religious, or philosophical.
What is Allegory?
200
"This brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found."
What is The Parable of the Prodigal Son?
200
The clock in the Masque of the Red Death
What is Contextual?
200
The author's use of descriptive and figurative language to represent ideas, actions and entities in a way that it appeals to a reader's physical sense.
What is Imagery?
200
This character committed adultery; public condemnation via wearing a symbol, humiliation on the scaffold, and temporary jail time.
What is Hester Prynne?
300
A short allegory designed to illustrate a religious truth, most often associated with Jesus as recorded in the Gospels.
What is Parable?
300
"It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony."
What is "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe"?
300
Golden apples in The Myth of Atalanta
What is contextual?
300
Style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.
What is Diction?
300
The newest member of the Joy Luck Club, having taken her mother Suyuan’s place after her death, she receives money to travel to China; find her mother’s long-lost twin daughters, Chwun Yu and Chwun Hw.
What is Jing-mei Woo?
400
A symbol recognized and shared as a result of a common social and cultural heritage.
What is Cultural/Universal Symbol?
400
"Quickly he threw out the first of his Golden apples slightly ahead of Atalanta and slightly off the track."
What is The Myth of Atalanta?
400
Dove
What is a Cultural/universal Symbol?
400
Juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas.
What is Antithesis?
400
An intelligent child ruined by a cruel father, one of the book’s most important mockingbirds; he is also an important symbol of the good that exists within people by helping Scout and Jem.
What is Boo Radley?
500
Derived not from a common historical, cultural, or religious material, but which is rather developed within the context of an individual work.
What is Contextual Symbol?
500
"There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this world given."
What is Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
500
Name a contextual symbol in an AP literature book.
What is answers will vary?
500
It requires you to make a statement or claim, back it up with evidence, connect the evidence to your claim and explain why it is important, and close the paragraph effectively.