AP Language and Composition

Lit Terms

100

Onomatopoiea

A word that sounds like the sound they represent.

200

Metaphor

What is a direct comparison between dissimlar things called?

300

Motif

What is the repetition or variations of an image or ida in a work used to develop theme or characters called?

400

Irony

What is an unexpected twist or contrast between what happens and what was intended or expected to happen?

500

A division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different?

What is a dichotomy?

Books

100

A book with a boy with a scar and magic

What is Harry Potter?

200

A book about old money and new money

What is The Great Gatsby?

300

A Tale of Two Cities

What is A Tale of Two Cities

400

The story of a young girl during the Holocaust

What is the Diary of Anne Frank?

500

A story about people imbued with angelic powers

What is Shadowhunters?

WILD CARD

100

The area where anime came

What is Japan

200

A game played with a 5 by 5 grid and questions in each box

Jeopardy

300

Identifying with the gender assigned at birth

What is cisgender?

400

Mary's father has 4 children; three are named Nana, Nene, and Nini. So what is is the 4th child's name?

Who is Mary?

500

The actor of Spider-Man's (Tom Holland) friend (not Zendaya)

Who is Jacob Batalon?

Vocab

100

Elated

What is extremely happy?

200

Combative and Aggressive

What is militant

300

Erudite

Scholarly

400

Colloquial

Not formal

500

Impetuous

What is acting or done quickly and without thought or care?

Miscellaneous English

100

Used in Rhetorical and Synthesis Essays but not Argument

Rhetorical Devices

200

Feminism

^{What is the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes}

300

Jaine's first husband

Logan

400

Words used to lead next sentences

Transition Words

500

A strategy used in Multiple Choice

POE