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FREE ENGLISH VOCABULARY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT
AP LIT BIG 45 EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: Lyrical Poem
Answer:
expresses strong personal feelings from narrator
Question 2: Tragic Character
Answer:
When character has flaw or judgment error which leads to downfall
Question 3: Rhetorical Q
Answer:
Question which is not meant to be given a response
Question 4: Anaphora
Answer:
word repeated in text multiple times to make it stick
example: "I have a dream"
Question 5: Apostrophe
Answer:
When a person detaches from reality and talks to imaginary person or object
Question 6: Alliteration
Answer:
repetition of consonant sounds
Question 7: Analogy
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Comparison to similar thing someone knows about
Example: "Strong as an ox."
Question 8: Tone
Answer:
How authors attitude toward a subject
Question 9: Pastoral Poem
Answer:
Poem that describes a utopian view
Question 10: Enjambment
Answer:
Continuation of line in poem without a pause
Question 11: Resolution
Answer:
How story ends (not always nicely)
Question 12: Allusion
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Indirect reference to something outside text
Example: "They are a real life Romeo And Juliet"
Question 13: paradox
Answer:
Statement that seems like doesn't make sense but does
Example: tortoise and the hair
Question 14: Epic poem
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Heoroic deeds significant of the poet. Think greek myth
Question 15: Climax
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Where conflict meets highest intensity
Question 16: Mood
Answer:
Feeling created for reader from literature
Question 17: Ode
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poem about an object or person and poets feelings on it
Question 18: Simile
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Comparison using like or as
Example: As cool as a cucumber
Question 19: Foil
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Character who contrasts with another
Example: Draco vs. Harry
Question 20: Imagery
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Description of how somethings looks, feels, tastes, and sounds
Question 21: Sonnet-Italian
Answer:
14 lines ABBA
Question 22: assonance
Answer:
repetition of vowel sounds
Question 23: Metaphor
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Direct comparison
Question 24: Understatement/Meiosis
Answer:
something presented as not as important
Question 25: Antithesis
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Use of contrasting ideas and putting them together
Example: "Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee."
Question 26: symbol
Answer:
something that stands for something else/carries more than literal meaning
Question 27: Plot
Answer:
Stuff that happens in a story
Question 28: Idiom
Answer:
Phrases that have meaning by culture but don't make sense otherwise