AP Lang & Comp Terms

1. AP Lang & Comp Terms Batch #3 (Review Game Version)

2. #1 Identify the device being used: “I came, I saw, I conquered.” (Attributed to Julius Caesar)

3. Answer #1 Asyndeton The omission of coordinating conjunctions, such as in a series.

4. #2 Identify the literary device/term: A character who illuminates the qualities of another character by means of contrast.

5. Answer #2 foil

6. #3 Identify the device being used: Want to take a ride in my new wheels?

7. Answer #3 Synecdoche A figure of speech in which a PART of an entity is used to refer to the whole.

8. #4 Identify the device being used: “My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose” (title of a poem by Robert Burns)

9. Answer #4 Simile A comparison of two unlike things through the use of like or as

10. #5 Identify the device being used: A cruel wind

11. Answer #5 Personification/pathetic fallacy The attribution of human feeling or motivation to a nonhuman object, esp. an object found in nature.

12. #6 Identify the device being used: In the stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, characters, objects, and events often symbolize moral qualities.

13. Answer #6 Allegory A narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning in an allegory, each elements symbolizes something else.

14. #7 Identify the device being used: Appointing a Wall Street insider to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission is like telling a fox to guard the henhouse.

15. Answer #7 Analogy A comparison based on a specific similarity between things that are otherwise unlike, or inference that if two things are alike in some ways, they will be alike in others. Often analogies draw a comparison between something abstract and something more concrete or easier to visualize.

16. #8 Identify the literary device/term: A fundamental and universal idea explored in a literary work.

17. Answer #8 theme

18. #9 Identify the literary device/term: The way the words in a piece of writing are put together to form lines, phrases, or clauses; the basic structure of a piece of writing.

19. Answer #9 syntax

20. #10 Identify the device being used: “[F]or there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)

21. Answer #10 Aphorism A concise expression of insight or wisdom.

22. #11 Identify the device being used: He is not unfriendly.

23. Answer #11 Litotes Deliberate understatement, in which an idea or opinion is often affirmed by negating its opposite.

24. #12 Identify the device being used: “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 3.2.20-21)

25. Answer #12 Antithesis The contrasting of ideas by the use of parallel structure in phrases and clauses.

26. #13 Identify the device being used: “The vanity of others offends our taste only when it offends our vanity.” (Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil)

27. Answer #13 Aphorism A concise expression of insight or wisdom.

28. #14 Identify the device being used: “Be one of the few, the proud, the Marines.” (Marine Corps advertisement)

29. Answer #14 Asyndeton The omission of coordinating conjunctions, such as in a series.

30. #15 Identify the device being used: “Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.” (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)

31. Answer #15 Paradox A statement that seems absurd or even contradictory but that often expresses a deeper truth.

32. #16 Identify the device being used: Referring to business people as “suits”

33. Answer #16 Metonymy A figure of speech in which something is referred to by one of its attributes.

34. #17 Identify the device being used: Romeo loves Juliet and Juliet, Romeo.

35. Answer #17 Ellipsis A figure of speech in which a word or short phrase is omitted but easily understood from the context.

36. #18 Identify the device being used: Firefighters are usually brave and friendly. Jim Potter is a firefighter. So, he is probably brave and friendly.

37. Answer #18 Deductive reasoning Reasoning in which one derives a specific conclusion from something generally or universally understood to be true.

38. #19 Identify the literary device/term: A literary style in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as I.

39. Answer #19 First-person point of view

40. #20 Identify the device being used: They had a great thirst for viewing new paintings.

41. Answer #20 Synaesthesia The use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another.

42. #21 Identify the literary device/term: The point of view through which a subject or its parts are mentally perceived.

43. Answer #21 perspective

44. #22 Identify the literary device/term: The use of objects, characters, figures, or colors to represent abstract ideas or concepts. (Have different meanings in different contexts)

45. Answer #22 Symbolism

46. #23 Identify the literary device/term: Focusing on the explicit meaning of words only, and not dealing with context, connotation, figurative language, or other elements that add deeper shades of meaning to a text.

47. Answer #23 Literal

48. #24 Identify the literary device/term: The process of proving something wrong by argument or evidence.

49. Answer #24 Refutation

50. #25 Identify the device being used: Turn over a new leaf.