AP Lit
The three most common types of this include verbal, situational, and dramatic
irony
This 2018 Broadway musical is based on the 2004 film about a naïve teenage girl who enrolls at an American high school after years of living in Africa
Mean Girls
Corolla, Camry, Tacoma
Toyota
This mockumentary sitcom depicts the everyday lives of employees at the Scranton branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company
The Office
On May 6, 2023, the UK held the coronation of this monarch
Charles III
Named after a character in The Rivals, this term refers to the mistaken use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical, sometimes humorous utterance, such as "for all intensive purposes"
malapropism
This 2021 Broadway musical is based on a 1993 film where a recently divorced actor dresses up as a female housekeeper to be able to interact with his children
Mrs. Doubtfire
Explorer, Escape, Expedition
Ford
This Lewis Carroll protagonist falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures
Alice
On March 14, 2023, OpenAI launched this artificial intelligence chatbot
ChatGPT
"Seriously funny", "alone together", and "living dead" are all examples of this figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear next to each other
oxymoron
School of Rock
Sonata, Santa Fe, Tucson
Hyundai
This word describes a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer
On May 9, 2023, the 67th edition of this long-running international song competition began
The Eurovision Song Contest
This refers to a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person or a personified object
apostrophe
This 2018 Broadway musical is based on the 2001 Baz Lurhmann-directed film starring Nicole Kidman as a French courtesan
Moulin Rouge!
Odyssey, Pilot, Civic
Honda
This is a sweet, chewy, aromatic black substance made by evaporation from the juice of a root and used as a candy and in medicine
licorice
On February 6, 2023, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the southeastern area of this country, resulting in at least 59,000 deaths
Turkey
In poetry, this type of couplet is a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters and shares its name with a famous Chopin polonaise
heroic
This 2019 Broadway musical is based on a 1988 film about a recently deceased couple who contacts the title character to scare away their home's new human inhabitants—just say his name three times
Beetlejuice
Tiguan, Passat, Beetle
Volkswagen
This word refers to an array of points describing the arrangement of particles that form a crystal
lattice
On April 19, 2023, this largest and most powerful rocket ever built, launched during a flight test and exploded after 4 minutes
(SpaceX) Starship