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Literary Devices
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FRQ 3
Wild Card
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

A character that is alienated from society because of gender, race, class, or creed.

What is creature / doctor from Frankenstein?

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

The close placement of contrasting ideas, images, or entities, with the intent of highlighting the contrast between those entities

What is juxtaposition?

200

An English Romantic novelist and inventor of the genre of science fiction.

Who is Mary Shelley?

200

Poetry, prose, and free response.

What are the three topics for the essay questions on the AP English & Composition exam?

200

A particular immoral character that makes the reader react sympathetically in the end.

What is Blance DuBois?

200

A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change.

What is satire?

300

when the audience understands more about a situation than some of the characters do

What is dramatic irony?

300

An American Modernist novelist, short-story writer and journalist best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers.

What is Ernest Hemingway?

300

The amount of minutes to dedicate per FRQ.

What 40 minutes?

300

A scene of social occasion (wedding, party, funeral) and how it shows the value's of the character's society.

What is the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald? What is the Lottery by Shirley Jackson?

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

This literary period presented varied social classes of people rather than just the aristocracy, which made it more popular among the middle classes. It often had a moral purpose and tended to deviate from the earlier concept of art for arts sake.

What is Victorian literature?

400

An excellent strategy for controlling your timing during the AP exams.

What is wearing a watch?

400

A scene of violence in a story.

What is The Lottery by Shirley Jackson? What is Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin?

400

Pairing two things in your analysis.

What is complexity?

500

Narration that follows the character's thoughts as they unfold. It is a narrative technique that aims to depict the flow of thoughts, feelings, and memories in a character's mind.

What is stream of consciousness?

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

This type of essay suggests a new way to "read" the text by going beyond the prompt and focusing on the literary work, not the paper or its author's craft.

What is literary argument?

500

How contrasting places represent opposed forces or ideas at play.

What is There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury?

500

A technique by which a writer deliberately suggests two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. ambivalence

What is ambiguity?