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Literary Devices
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100
An indirect reference to a person, event, statement, theme or work made to enrich meaning through the connotations they carry.
What is an allusion?
100
Elizabethan poet and playwright who wrote at least 37 plays and helped found the Lord Chamberlain's men.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100

May 8, 2024.

What is the date for the AP exam in English Literature and Composition?

100
The noun to which a pronoun refers.
What is an antecedent?
100
Something that, although it is of interest in its own right, stands for or suggests something larger and more complex.
What is a symbol?
200

When a certain word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of clauses or sentences that follow each other.

What is what is an anaphora?

200

An American playwright who has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America".

Who is August Wilson?

200
Poetry, prose, and free response.
What are the three topics for the essay questions on the AP English & Composition exam?
200
The statement of the position taken by someone expostulating on a particular topic with the intent of proving that position plausible or correct.
What is a thesis?
200
A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole.
What is synecdoche?
300

a break or pause in the middle of a line of verse.

What is caesura?

300

American author of Bless Me Ultima?

Who is Rudolfo Anaya?

300
AP rewards all correct answers with points, but does not deduct points for incorrect answers.
What is the penalty for guessing on the AP exam in Literature and Composition?
300
The preferred tense for literary criticism.
What is present tense?
300
The arrangement and interrelation of events in a narrative work.
What is a plot?
400
A statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical on the surface but that, upon closer examination, may express an underlying truth.
What is a paradox?
400

English novelist and poet who added biographical aspects to her most famous novel Jane Eyre.

Who is Charlotte Bronte?

400
Wear a watch.
What is one excellent strategy for controlling your timing during the AP exams?
400

The word used to describe the arrangement of words or phrases in a sentence.

What is syntax?

400
Petratchan and Shakspearian.
What are the two most famous types of sonnets?
500

The placement of two or more things side by side, often in order to bring out their differences.

What is juxtaposition?

500
A 19th-century (1800 to 1860) literary movement emphasizing emotion and imagination, rather than logic and scientific thought. It was a response to the Enlightenment.
What is Romanticism?
500

Each one should take you about 40 minutes.

What is how long I should take on each of my essays?

500
The form of a verb when the subject is being acted upon rather than performing the action.
What is passive voice?
500

It expresses the narrator or author’s emotions, attitude, tone and point of view through artful, well thought out use of word choice and diction.

What is voice?