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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 5, 2021.

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
A rhetorical figure involving the deliberate omission of conjunctions to create a concise, terse, and often memorable statement.
What is what is an asyndeton?
200
Nineteenth century American author and inventor of the detective story.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
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
Harsh, unpleasant, or discordant sounds. Pop culture examples are included in songs recorded by the rock group Nine Inch Nails.
What is cacophony?
300
American author of Little Woman?
What is Louisa May Alcott?
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
American poet and author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings who wrote and read the poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" for President Clinton's first inauguration.
Who is Maya Angelou?
400

Wear a watch.

What is a strategy for keeping track of time on the exam?

400

The base form of a verb proceeded by "to" and used as a noun, an adverb, or an adjective.

What is "be"?

400
Petratchan and Shakspearian.
What are the two most famous types of sonnets?
500
A rhetorical figure in which one word or phrase governs or modifies two or more words or phrases.
What is zeugma?
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

The AP Exam consists of three of these, along with a multiple choice section.

What is an essay?

500
The form of a verb when the subject is being acted upon rather than performing the action.
What is passive voice?
500
Circumlocution, or a roundabout way of speaking or writing.
What is periphrasis?