Interrogative statement meant to draw a specific reply from the audience.
What is a rhetorical question?
100
these arguments suggest that one thing will lead to another, oftentimes with disastrous consequences.
What is slippery slope?
100
historical, literary, religious, or mythical references
What are allusions?
100
He hates hypocrisy, and eventually goes to the gallows to save his name.
Who is John Proctor?
100
The three types of free-response (essay) questions.
What are rhetorical analysis, general argument, and synthesis?
200
From the Greek word for “feeling”; the quality in a work of literature that evokes high emotion, most commonly sorrow, pity, or compassion.
What is pathos?
200
arguments that attack a person’s character rather than their reasoning
What is ad hominem?
200
characters personify abstractions like hope or freedom in these a stories, poems, or pictures that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.
What is allegory?
200
She was called an elf child.
Who is Pearl?
200
"Loving hate" and "motionful suspension" are examples.
What are oxymorons?
300
An example of this type of sentence would be, "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is periodic sentence?
300
"If you vote for this candidate, your children's futures will be at stake!"
What are scare tactics?
300
a work that humorously ridicules human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule
What is satire?
300
He faked his own death to escape his abusive father.
Who is Huck Finn?
300
Using the term "ethnic cleansing" rather than "genocide" is an example of this.
What is euphemism?
400
initial independent clause followed by a number of subordinate constructions
What is cumulative sentence?
400
“Sure, we haven’t given raises in over five years to our employees, but you know, we work really hard to make a good product. We try to ensure the best customer service, too.”
What is red herring?
400
"I came to ask for your daughter's hand in marriage" uses this device.
What is synechdoche?
400
"He's so dumb, he doesn't know he's alive."
Who is George Wilson?
400
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage” uses this common AP device.
What is metaphor?
500
“Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n" is an example of this device.
What is antithesis?
500
(visual clue!)
What is post hoc (false causality)?
500
The production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body, as in "blue-black cold"
What is synesthesia?
500
He stated, "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."