FREE LITERATURE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP LIT

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FREE LITERATURE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP LIT

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Question 1: LITERARY SYMBOL

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symbols that are sometimes also conventional in the sense that they are found in a variety of works and are more generally recognized. However, a work's symbols may be more complicated.

Question 2: ANTIHERO

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A protagonist who carries the action of the literary piece but does not embody the classic characteristics of courage, strength, and nobility.

Question 3: APOSTROPHE

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A rhetorical (not expecting an answer) figure of direct address to a person, object, or abstract entity.

Question 4: LIMERICK

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A five-line closed-form poem in which the first two lines consist of anapestic trimeter, which in turn are followed by lines of anapestic dimeter, and a final line in trimeter. They rhyme in an AABBA pattern.

Question 5: KISHOTENKETSU

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Narrative structure in which the moment of climax is an ironic twist.

Question 6: INTENTIONAL FALLACY

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The error of judging the meaning of a work of art by the author's intention in producing it.

Question 7: SATIRE

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The use of humor to ridicule and expose the shortcomings and failures of society, individuals, and institutions, often in the hope that change and reform are possible.

Question 8: ELEGY

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a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died.

Question 9: COSMIC IRONY

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When situational irony is associated with the notion of fate, or a deity, manipulating events so as to "frustrate and mock" a character in a literary work, situational irony has become its near-twin, cosmic irony.

Question 10: 3RD OMNISCIENT

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An all-knowing narrator tells the story from a god-like perspective, able even to describe thoughts, feelings, and motivations.

Question 11: ASSONANCE

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the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together.

Question 12: PARODY

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A work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style.

Question 13: SHIFT

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In writing, a movement from one thought or idea to another; a change.

Question 14: REPETITION

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A word or phrase used more than once to emphasize an idea.

Question 15: LOCALE

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The physical setting within which the action of a narrative takes place.

Question 16: DIALOGUE

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The lines spoken by a character or characters in a play, essay, story, or novel, especially a conversation between two characters, or a literary work that takes the form of such a discussion.

Question 17: AESTHETIC

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The noun "aesthetic" means "that which appeals to the senses".

Question 18: SIMILE

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A comparison of unlike things using the word like, as, or so.

Question 19: TONGUE IN CHEEK

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Expressing a thought in a way that appears to be sincere, but is actually joking.

Question 20: CONCRETE UNIVERSAL

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The idea that a work of art expresses the universal or abstract through the concrete and the particular.

Question 21: VERNACULAR

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The language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality. Also refers to the way something is commonly or easily understood.

Question 22: ANECDOTE

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A short and often personal story used to emphasize a point, to develop a character or a theme, or to inject humor.

Question 23: SLANT RHYME

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Rhymes created out of words with similar but not identical sounds. In most of these instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa.

Question 24: PARALLELISM

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The repeated use of the same grammatical structure in a sentence or a series of sentences.

Question 25: CHARACTERIZATION

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The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.

Question 26: CONNOTATION

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the interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning.Associations a word calls to mind.

Question 27: LITOTES

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A figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions. This adds emphasis to the ideas rather than decrease their importance.