FREE LANGUAGES AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP

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FREE LANGUAGES AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP

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Question 1: Allegory

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The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.

Question 2: Apostrophe

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A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love

Question 3: Homily

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"Sermon"; In can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice

Question 4: Colloquial

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The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing

Question 5: Theme

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The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life

Question 6: Symbolism

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Anything (usually something concrete such as an object, action, character, or scene) that represents itself and also stands for something more abstract

Question 7: Euphemism

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More agreeable/less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept

Question 8: Rhetoric

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Describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively

Question 9: Mood

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The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura or a work

Question 10: Anaphora

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A sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition or words or phrases at the beginning or successive lines or sentences (I Have a Dream Speech)

Question 11: Personification

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A figure or speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions

Question 12: Extended Metaphor

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A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work

Question 13: Atmosphere

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The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice or objects that are described

Question 14: Style

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An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices

Question 15: Diction

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Related to style, diction refers to the writer's word choices

Question 16: Denotation

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The strict, literal definition of a word

Question 17: Narrative

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The telling of a story or an account or an event

Question 18: Antecedent

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The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun

Question 19: Thesis

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The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position

Question 20: Clause

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A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb

Question 21: Transition

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A word or phrase that links different idea

Question 22: Syntax

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The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences

Question 23: Repetition

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The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language

Question 24: Description

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To recreate, invent, or visually present a person, place, event or action so that the reader can picture that being described

Question 25: Litotes

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A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite

Question 26: Alliteration

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The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words

Question 27: Aphorism

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A statement (of known authorship) which expresses a general truth or a moral principle

Question 28: Understatement

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Presents something as less significant than it is