The Leviathan
AP Test
Literary Devices
100

Although the Leviathan was the ruler of all water, this sea was its home.

What is the Mediterranean?

100

The AP Literature and Composition test is on this date at this time.

What is Wednesday, May 6th, 2020, at 8:00 AM.

100

This is a comparison of two things, often unrelated, without using the words "like" or "as." 

What is a metaphor?

200

The Leviathan was most famously mentioned in this religious text.

What is the Bible?

200

The poetry portion of the AP Literature and Composition test is graded on these three topics: Thesis, Evidence and Commentary, and this.

What is sophistication?

200

This is the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words.

What is alliteration?

300

The Leviathan is sometimes blamed for this natural disaster.

What is a tsunami?

300

The poetry portion is worth this percentage of the entire test.

What is 55%?

300

This is a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought. Shakespearean sonnets usually end in this.

What is a couplet?

400

There were originally two Leviathans. When it was decided that if the two mated they would rule the world, this deity descended to Earth to kill the female Leviathan.

Who is God?

400

Students of this grade usually take the AP Literature and Composition examination.

What is senior year/12th grade/last year of high school?

400

This is the implied meaning of a word rather than the literal meaning.

What is connotation?

500

After the female Leviathan was killed, this of her body parts was made into a canopy.

What is skin?

500

Do not put this in your essay, or you may get a zero for evidence and commentary. 

What is your opinion?

500

This comes from the French word for "to straddle."It is the continuation of a sentence from one line or couplet into the next. 

What is enjambment?