Review Jeopardy AP ENGLISH Semester II JEOPARDY Click
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Review Jeopardy AP ENGLISH Semester II
JEOPARDY! Click Once to Begin • Fabulous prizes may be at stake. • Rules…. • I am the decider of all things. • No crybabies allowed.
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A brief narrative of an entertaining and presumably true incident
What is an ANECDOTE?
The following passage could be said to express an idea about human experience, human motivation, or the human condition that the author suggests in the work: “All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. ” Cormac Mc. Carthy The Road (p. 52). The term for this kind of idea is ______
What is THEME?
"We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives. . But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate--we cannot consecrate--we cannot hallow--this ground” contains an example of
What is ANAPHORA?
“Beyond the immediate struggle for survival, the deep struggle explored in The Road is that of raising a child in a world without hope; and for the boy, the complementary challenge of assuming the responsibilities of manhood in such a world. There would seem to be nothing to sustain these two —the natural world exists only in effigy, and the remaining humans have mostly sacrificed their humanity as the price of survival. Yet the boy is constantly seeking to define a moral structure he can live by—one that accounts for the fact that his father doesn't help stray people on the road, but still ensures their own distinction from the cannibals. ” These comments from Slate. com can best be described as
What is LITERARY CRITICISM?
The speaker of a poem
What is PERSONA?
A figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression, giving the effect of a condensed paradox
What is an OXYMORON?
"We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream” contains examples of __________ and ________. terms
What is SIMILE and PARALLELISM?
Dylan Thomas' poem about his father's approaching death, titled “Do not go Gentle into That Good Night" contains an example of
What is EUPHEMISM? (“Good Night” = death)
“Greed, ” “death, ” “man’s inhumanity to man, ” or “journey to adulthood” can best be described as
What is a MOTIF?
The statement “Greed, inhumanity, and dark struggles are not confined to just one region, but occur everywhere, ” can best be described as
What is a THEME STATEMENT?
Overweening pride
What is HUBRIS?
A narrative structure containing a “story within a story” in which one character opens the story and prepares the stage for another character or characters who narrate parts of the story as seen in works like The Poisonwood Bible is referred to as
What is FRAME STORY?
A figure of speech that substitutes the name of a related object, person, or idea for the subject at hand, such as “crown” as a substitute for king or ruler
What is METONYMY?
The Greek term for tragic flaw, weakness of character or error in judgment, which causes the downfall of the hero
What is HAMARTIA?
In the Billy Collins poem “The History Teacher, ” the difference between what we know as readers and what the history teacher in the poem understands about his students may be described as _______. (This is also a primary device to induce pathos in Oedipus the King. )
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
In the Billy Collins poem “The History Teacher, ” the word Boer is a form of wit that involves a play on words best described as
What is a PUN?
A comparison such as the Congo River to a snake in Heart of Darkness that is developed through several references within a passage is described as a/an
What is EXTENDED METAPHOR?
A figure of speech in which opposing or contrasting ideas are balanced against each other in grammatically parallel structure
What is ANTITHESIS?
In literary terms: any group of writings that has been established as authentic; more specifically, those books of the Christian Bible
What is the CANON?
DAILY DOUBLE
The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism
What is VERISMILITUDE?
A sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances or situation especially in a literary work
What is PERIPETEIA?
The point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his or her or some other character's true identity or discovers the true nature of his or her own situation
What is ANAGNORISIS?
A revealing scene or moment ; an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure
What is an EPIPHANY?
Entrance ode by the chorus
What is PARADOS?
“To be, or not to be: that is what really matters” is an awful ______ of the famous opening lines of Hamlet’s suicide soliloquy
What is a PARAPHRASE?
DAILY DOUBLE
Simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action
What is an AMBIVELANCE?
FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION
A word or expression that can be understood in two or more possible ways; uncertainty
What is AMBIGUITY?
