AP English Language and Composition

What is a false name or alias used by writers?

Overstatement; gross exaggeration for rhetorical effect?

A long, historical, episodic narrative often focusing on a single hero?

A person, scene, event, or other element that fails to correspond with the appropriate era

A detailed analysis or interpretation of a work of prose or poetry

A literary style used to poke fun at,attack, or ridicule an idea to induce change

Pleasing, harmonious sounds

A narrative poem that tells of the adventures and exploits of a hero

A forceful sermon, lecture, or tirade

A figure of speech in which a part signifies a whole or a whole signifies a part

A term used to describe literary forms, such as novel, play, and essay?

Device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by its function

A grotesque or exaggerated likeness of striking qualities in persons and things

The repetition of one or more initial consonants in a group of words or lines in a poem

A resolution that occurs at the end of a narrative or drama,real or imagined

Mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated?

A word to which a pronoun refers?

An object, device, or creation that is fanciful or rooted in unreality?

Any discourse that is not poetry?

Excessive pride that often affects tone

The author's attitude toward the subject being written about?

Reuse of the same words, phrases or ideas for rhetorical effect, usually to emphasize a point

A saying or proverb containing a truth based on experience and often in metaphorical language

A saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth.

A lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place

Inflated, pretentious language

A french term for the world of books, criticism, and literature in general.

Having an instructive purpose; intending to convey information or teach a lesson

One who expects and observes nothing but the worst of human conduct?

A rhetorical opposition of ideas by means of grammatical arrangement of words

What's a story containing unreal, imaginary features?

Narrowly academic instead of broad and humane; excessively petty and meticulous

Directed to or appealing to feelings or prejudices instead of to intellect or reason

The generic name for a figure of speech such as image,symbol,simile, and metaphor

Insincere or overdone sentimentality?

A vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings

The imaginary source of inspiration for an artist or writer?

A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before

Novels written for mass consumption, often emphasizing exciting plots?