Life is baseball: sometimes you get a home run; most times you strike out; if you get a hit 30% of the time you're doing well; etc.
What is extended metaphor?
100
Tiny, terse Tommy Traddles took taciturn Timmy Thomas to town.
What is alliteration?
100
The mother could be said to have been this at the losses of her son and husband.
What is bereft?
100
In this novel soma was distributed by the government.
What is Brave New World?
100
This play begins "if music be the food of love, play on."
What is Twelfth Night?
200
"The woman in the white dress played innocently in the churchyard" is an example of this.
What is symbolism?
200
After eating everything under the pretense of reducing waste, the corpulent youngster greatly expanded his own waist.
What is a pun?
200
Through this I could tell a great deal about a character just from his appearance.
What is physiognomy?
200
This land of little people shows the true pettiness of much of humanity and the ridiculousness of government in the same facet.
What is Lilliput?
200
This is a group of works that are widely studied and would be useful on the AP exam.
What is a canon?
300
An order to capture the nation came directly from the crown.
What is metonymy?
300
The snap, crackle, and pop of the man's jaw after the collision ironically prohibited him from ever enjoying rice snacks again.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Their relationship could be said to be this, as it had its high and low points and was infrequently calm, much like a rolling sea.
What is tumultuous?
300
Lemuel Gulliver visits this place, where he witnesses some of the tragedies of education on a higher level.
What is Lagado?
300
This excessive pride is the downfall of Odysseus, among others.
What is hubris?
400
The painter utilized a spectrum of black, making the most colorful, brightest darkness one could comprehend.
What is oxymoron?
400
He who shoots first and is behooved for it too is a true lawman.
What is assonance?
400
This could describe the act of passing time.
What is beguiling?
400
This rebellious leader is the head of a brotherhood against Big Brother.
Who is Emmanuel Goldstein?
400
The tone of the lines:
in a peaceful valley flows
a river, and a cool breeze blows
through the trees that make smooth sounds.
The wondrous beauty of nature abounds.
What is pastoral?
500
The teacher looked upon forty observant, eager eyes, twenty minds ready to learn, and twenty concentrated faces.
What is synecdoche?
500
Check the chick with the pink lipstick!
What is consonance?
500
Mozart could be said, as he is revered for his accomplishments, to have led this kind of life.
What is fecund?
500
This character acts as a foil for both John and Bernard, as he can not quite abandon his caste to join the former and is seemingly more solid in his rebelliousness than the latter.
Who is Helmholtz Watson?
500
In Huxley's Brave New World time and religion are both linked to this man.