Review Jeopardy AP ENGLISH Semester I JEOPARDY Click

Review Jeopardy AP ENGLISH Semester I

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Tragic Terms Language Terms Sounds vaguely familiar 200 200 400 400 400 600 600 600 800 800 800 1000 1000 General LIT. TERMS Terms of Comedy 200

A figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to compare two different things

What is a SIMILE?

The contrast between what a person says and what he/she means

What is VERBAL IRONY?

The prevailing emotional attitude in a literary work or part of a work

What is MOOD?

Usually a character who, by contrast, points up the qualities or characteristics of another character

What is a FOIL?

A figure of speech that creates an implied analogy in which one thing is imaginatively compared to or identified with another dissimilar thing

What is a METAPHOR?

Harsh, cutting personal remarks to or about someone; not necessarily ironic

What is SARCASM?

A form of wit, not necessarily funny, that involves a play on words that have similar sounds

What is a PUN?

A composition that ridicules another composition by imitating and exaggerating aspects of its content

What is a PARODY?

A term used to describe any form of literature that blends ironic humor and with criticism

What is SATIRE?

A type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being less important than it actually is

What is UNDERSTATEMENT?

A weakness in a character or a defect on the part of a dignified, noble character, which sets the plot in motion and leads to the character’s downfall or destruction

What is a TRAGIC FLAW?

A character whose basic goodness and superiority are marred by a tragic flaw such as pride

What is a TRAGIC HERO?

A moment of revelation or profound insight

What is an EPIPHANY?

According to Aristotle, the power of tragedy to purge the emotions of pity and fear that its incidents have aroused

What is CATHARSIS?

A pattern or model of an action, a character type, or an image that recurs consistently enough in life and literature to be considered universal

What is an ARCHETYPE?

The arrangement and grammatical relation of words, phrases, and clauses in sentences; the ordering of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences

What is SYNTAX?

The associations, images, or impressions carried by a word, as opposed to the word’s literal meaning

What is CONNOTATION?

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or within words

What is ALLITERATION?

Reversing the normal order of sentence parts; Shakespeare does this often

What is INVERSION?

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Montressor's family motto

An unrhymed form of poetry that often but not always contains 10 syllables in which every other syllable, beginning with the second, is stressed

What is BLANK VERSE?

A statement that, while apparently self-contradictory, is nonetheless essentially true

What is a PARADOX?

The pervasive mood, emotional feeling, or tone of a place, scene, or event in a literary work

What is ATMOSPHERE?

A term used to refer to language that contains figures of speech, such as metaphors, similes, personification, and hyperbole, etc.

What is FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE?

A passing reference to historical or fictional characters, places, or events, or to other works

What are ALLUSIONS?

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A term used in literary criticism to refer to the voice created by the author

What is PERSONA?

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Individual lines of verse dialogue are assigned to alternate speakers; used to provide contrast to lengthy speeches and choral passages in Greek drama

What is STICHOMYTHIC DIALOGUE?