Novels
This clergyman famously lists the approval of Lady Catherine de Bourgh as a reason for proposing to Elizabeth Bennet.
Who is Mr. Collins?
James Joyce uses this term for the sudden flash of spiritual insight experienced by the narrator at the end of the bazaar.
What is an epiphany?
The literary term for a poem like "Easter Wings" that is printed to look like the shape of its subject.
What is a concrete poem?
The obvious stretching of the truth.
What is hyperbole?
Facts, statistics, expert quotations, and examples are all forms of this, which are used to prove your reasons.
What is evidence?
This character records "human and animal" traits of the enslaved, symbolizing the pseudo-scientific rationalization of white supremacy.
Who is the schoolteacher?
In "Cell One", the valuable items that Nnamabia steals from his own family home by staging a fake break-in.
What is his mother's jewelry?
The political system or type of government Auden is criticizing for treating humans like data points.
What is totalitarianism (or bureaucracy/conformity)?
The title "The Collar" relies on this device, meaning a yoke, a fit of anger, or a caller.
What is a pun?
This specific portion of the rubric requires students to explicitly explain the relationship between their evidence and their thesis statement.
What is commentary?
This estate's ideal balance of natural beauty and social responsibility symbolizes the moral and socioeconomic peak of Austen’s landed gentry.
What is Pemberley?
The perspective or family member through whom "Cell One" is narrated.
Who is Nnamabia's younger sister? (She remains unnamed throughout the story)
A humorous, five-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme and meter.
What is a limerick?
A figure of speech where a part is made to represent the whole.
What is synecdoche?
This is one of the three distinct ways to earn the Sophistication point, achieved by acknowledging multiple perspectives.
What is a addressing an alternative point of view?
Beyond her role as Sethe's daughter, Beloved serves as a collective historical allegory for the millions of victims of this oceanic tragedy.
What is the Middle Passage?
The Renaissance philosophical movement centered on agency and skepticism that Hamlet embodies through his intense self-questioning.
What is Humanism?
The metrical chaos in "The Collar" snaps into order when God utters this single, paternal word.
What is "Child"?
The literary device used when the narrator points out that professors complain about "riffraff" thieves while ignoring that their own children are the ones stealing.
Answer: What is irony?
This term describes the logical pathway or "thread" created by an essay's commentary.
What is line of reasoning?
This specific legal mechanism—which dictates that Mr. Bennet’s estate, Longbourn, can only be inherited by a male relative—serves as the driving financial catalyst for the novel's marriages, highlighting the precarious economic vulnerability of women in Regency England.
What is an entailment?
Clue: In "Araby", the narrator uses vocabulary like "chalice" and "litanies" to describe his obsession with this character.
Who is Mangan's siser?
The two specific questions asked at the very end of "Unknown Citizen" that the speakers dismiss as "absurd."
What are "Was he free?" and "Was he happy?"
Charles Dickens utilizes this specific literary device in the opening of A Tale of Two Cities by beginning consecutive clauses with the exact same phrase: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
What is an anaphora?
This is the percent of students who earned a 5 on the 2025 AP English Literature Exam.
What is 16.2% of students?