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Review Jeopardy. AP ENGLISH LIT & COMP Semester II. JEOPARDY!. Click Once to Begin. A game show template.
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Review Jeopardy AP ENGLISH LIT & COMP Semester II
JEOPARDY! Click Once to Begin A game show template
The lifeguard’s lying “in a stable,” by the leap “of a fish,” by the imagined miracle of walking upon the water, by the wished for miracle of restoring the dead to life, and by the lifeguard’s desire to be a “savior,” poet James Dickey in his poem “The Lifeguard” establishes a pattern that can best be described as a cluster of religious/Christ-like _____________.
“If they be two, they are two soAs stiff twin compasses are two;Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, if th’ other do.” (John Donne, “A Valediction! Forbidding Mourning”)This literary term describes an elaborate figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things. An extended comparison such as the one above, which compares the love of two souls to two parts of a compass, is a device known as __________.
There's been a death in the opposite house As lately as to-day. I know it by the numb look Such houses have alway.The neighbors rustle in and out, The doctor drives away. A window opens like a pod, Abrupt, mechanically;Somebody flings a mattress out, -- The children hurry by; They wonder if It died on that, -- I used to when a boy.The minister goes stiffly in As if the house were his, And he owned all the mourners now, And little boys besides;And then the milliner, and the man Of the appalling trade, To take the measure of the house. There'll be that dark paradeOf tassels and of coaches soon; It's easy as a sign, -- The intuition of the news In just a country town. • Emily Dickinson’s use of the word “house” to reflect not just the house itself, but also the activity and the people around and within it, exemplifies the use of ___________.
“Had we but world enough, and timeThis coyness, lady, were no crime…But at my back I always hearTime’s winged chariot hurrying near.” (Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”)The philosophy expressed in the above lines is referred to as ____________.
A literary term reflected in the underlined sections: “And I do smile, such cordial light” (Emily Dickinson, “My Life Had Stood, A Loaded Gun”)“ My words like silent rain drops fell…” (Paul Simon “Sounds of Silence”)
A literary term reflected in the underlined sections:“The splendourfalls on castle wallsAnd snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes And the wild cataract leaps in glory.” (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Blow, Blow, Blow”)
In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” the fork in the road represents a major decision in life, each road a separate way of life. This is an example of ___________.
“The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard” (Robert Frost, “Out, Out”) The literary term exemplified in the line is known as _________.
“O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!” (John Milton, “Sampson Agonistes”)“My friend, you would not tell with such high zest…” (Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”) “Death, be not proud..” (John Donne, “Holy Sonnet #10) The literary term exemplified in the lines is known as _________.
Words like “bitter,” “ambivalent,” “sardonic,” or “sentimental” that can be used to refer to the author’s or speaker’s attitude about his/her subject are referred to as
“Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!” (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet) The literary term exemplified in the line is known as _________.
“This holy time is quiet as a nun” (William Wordsworth, “On the Beach at Calais”) The literary term exemplified in the line is known as _________.
“He clasps the crag with crooked hands” (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Eagle”)Bright black-eyed creature, brushed with brown.” (Robert Frost, “To a Moth Seen in Winter”) The literary term exemplified in the underlined section of the lines above is known as _________.
“Death is the broom I take in my hands To sweep the world clean.” (Langston Hughes, “War”) OR“My body was the house,And everything he’d touched, an exposed nerve.” (Stephen Spender, “Empty House”)
“…and high school girls with clear skin smiles…” (Janis Ian, “At Seventeen”) “The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate assilver rods.” (Sinclair Lewis, from Babbitt)
“I have seen this river so wide it had only one bank.” (Mark Twain)
“This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,To love that well which thou must leave ere long.” (William Shakespeare, “That Time of Year”)
The sustained references to literature, such as the Holy Sonnets, of John Donne in Wit or references to biblical characters or events, such as the parrot named “Methuselah” in The Poisonwood Bible, are examples of
Reversing the normal order of sentence parts; Shakespeare does this often
“I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.Whatever I see I swallow immediatelyJust as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.I am not cruel, only truthful—” (Silvia Plath, “Mirror”)Plath uses this literary device in the lines from the poem “Mirror”
“Nights dark beyond darknessand the days more gray each one than what had gone before.”Cormac McCarthy The Road (p. 1).The bolded section is and example of _______
“There was a lake a mile from his uncle’s farm where he and his uncle used to go in the fall for firewood. He sat in the back of the rowboat trailing his hand in the cold wake while his uncle bent to the oars. The old man’s feet in their black kid shoes braced against the uprights. His straw hat. His cob pipe in his teeth and a thin drool swinging from the pipebowl.”Cormac McCarthy. The Road (p. 10).The narrative moves from the present circumstances to recall a memory. The name of this literary technique
“She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies: And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes:” ( Lord Byron, “She Walks in Beauty”)The colored words is how we know the _____________ ____________ of a poem.
