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What is Inversion?
Consistent rhyming
Digression from regular word order
Inverting every other line
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What is an Epiphany?
A moment in the story that is considered defining of the character.
A moment of great realization or discover of a character in literature.
The moment of the story where the character truly "comes of age".
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What is a Pun?
A serious play on words
A humorous play on words
An inanimate object
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What is a foot?
A measurement of the important syllables in a line of poetry.
A measure of the number of paragraphs in a chapter of a novel.
A measure of the number of lines in a poem.
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What is a Feminine Ending?
A ending which comments on sexism in society.
When a poem has an additional syllable at the end of each line.
The ending of words ending in a e, considered to make the word feminine.
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What is an example of a Colloquialism?
"You ate that up!"
"To be or not to be, that is the real question."
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
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What is a Round (Dynamic) Character?
A character who stays consistent throughout the novel
A character who is developed over the course of the story
A character who does not contribute to the plot
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What is a Couplet?
Two lines of poetry which rythme.
Two lines of poetry that do not line.
Four lines of poetry that rhyme.
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What is an Elegy?
A piece of literature written about a parent.
A piece of literature written about a child.
A piece of literature written in remembrance of a person who has died.
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What is an Alliteration?
When the same consonant sound is repeated for many words.
When the same verb is repeated many times in one paragraph.
When the same vowel sound is repeated for many words.
When a paragraph begins and ends with the same word.
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What is Consonence?
The repetition of consonant sounds in a line of writing.
The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of writing.
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What is the final step of the best form of literary analysis?
Explain why your evidence supports your answer.
Defend your answer.
Expand on your answer and apply it to the real world.
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What is Rhyme?
When words have multiple meanings
When words sound the same but are spelled differently
The repetition of sounds in words (end, internal, oblique, perfect)
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What is a Motif?
A nickname for the main character
A theme or central idea
A word that is often repeated in poetry
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What is a Fable?
A story for children.
A nonfiction tale that has a warning in the messaging.
A short, fictional tale that has an underlying message.
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What is a Synecdoche?
When a part is referred to as a whole
When a part represents only a part
When a whole represents nothing
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What is an Enjambment?
A type of literature that contains religious Allegory.
When there is no break between two lines of poetry. It is a run-on line.
Multiple synonyms used in the same line of poetry.
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What is Emotive Language?
Language that is meant to cause sadness.
Language used to describe the steps of different emotes.
Language and word choice used in order to evoke emotion.
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What should a student consider when analyzing perspective?
What is the intended audience, where is the author coming from when writing
Is the author writing with an intended purpose.
What is the biographical history of the author?
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What is step one of the best method of problem analysis?
Find various literary terms to use in your answer.
Carefully read the question and think clearly about your answer.
Look for evidence through the page you just read.
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What is a Connotation?
The additional meaning or general interpretat associated with words.
A note from the author before the novel which provides context.
A sentence that follows standard English Conventions
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What is Ambiguity in Literature?
When an aspect of the story is left unclear, purposely.
When a work of literature has no inherent meaning.
When a reader is confused by a story.
A work of literature that works as political commentary.
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What is a Gothic Novel?
A novel about the time period 1400-1500.
A darkly themed novel that typically is set in a medieval time period.
A story that has monsters in it.
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What is a Flashback?
A quick moment in a story.
A part of the story where events from the past are recalled.
A part of the story where events from the future are revealed.
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What is Hubris?
Overwhelming Pride
Overwhelming Humility
A tragic flaw
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What is a Symbol?
An object that is meaningless
Something to represent something else
An object that contributes to a character's downfall
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What is an Ode?
A traditional short poem
A lyrical song based off a poem
A lyric poem of a serious nature
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What is an Antagonist
The character who causes the downfall of the main character.
The "good guy" of a story.
The enemy of the protagonist of the story. (typically a villain)
The character that acts as a guardian of the main character.
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What is a Sonnet?
A poem of 21 lines
A poem of 8 lines
A poem of 14 lines using iambic pentameter
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What should students pay attention to in all AP questions?
The part of the page it is asking you to analyze.
The key verbs of the questions. (analyze) (characterize) (determine)
The key nounes of the question?
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What is Rising Action?
The events building up to the climax
The events of the final act
The events of the first act
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What is a Climax?
The death of an important character.
The pivotal moment or peak moment of a story.
The beginning of novel.
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What is the second step of the best method of literary analysis?
Look for evidence in the reading which supports your answer.
Find literary terms to support your answer.
Decide on an answer that your believe is the most correct.
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What is a Euphemism?
When typically politically incorrect phrases are changed for polite ones.
When a piece of literature is written from multiple perspectives.
Essentially the use of slang language.
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What is a Narrator?
The teller of the story
The voice of the antagonist
The voice of the main character
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What is an Expansion?
An additional syllable or subtraction of a syllable in a word. (O'er)
An additional page on the end of novel to give more context.
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What is an Epistrophe?
The use of the same word at the end of various sentences or phrases.
When various sentences uses different words at the end.
A religious text.
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What should you consider when analysing tone?
Who is the intended audience?
Is the tone generally happy or sad.
What is the message the author is trying to convey, what is their opinion.
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What is a Novella?
A historical account of the author
A short novel
A long novel
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What is Polysyndeton?
Using multiple conjoining conjunctions
Using multiple nouns in order
Using multiple verbs in order
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What is Satire?
When something is dealt with seriously
When something is attacked through irony
When a character experiences a comedic event
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What is Poetic Justice?
When evil wins and good loses
When both good and evil lose
When good wins and evil loses
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What is a Heroine?
A heroic man
A heroic female
An anti-hero
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What is a Simile?
A comparison using like or as
Objects receiving human-like qualities
A comparison without like or as
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What is a Double Entendre?
A story which has multiple antagonists.
A story which includes two climaxes.
A sentence that can be interpreted in two ways.
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What is a Hamartia?
A heroic quality
A villainous character
A tragic flaw
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What are Flat characters?
Character who changes at the beginning of the novel and then stops.
Characters who undergo a lot of change over the course of a novel.
A character that does not change over the course of the story.
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What is a Parody?
A work identical to another work
A work contradictory to another work
A work imitating another work
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What is an Onomatopoeia?
Words that imitate voices
Words that imitate actions
Words that imitate sounds
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What is an Apostrophe?
When a character is unable to meet their final goal.
It is the alternative spelling of words (town/Towne)
When a character talks to a person or object that is not present.
When the main love interest of the main character is killed.
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What is Meter?
Arrangement of
Arrangement of letters in poetry
Arrangement of words in poetry
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What is a Paradox?
A contradictory statement
A truthful statement
A lie
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What is an Allusion?
A reference to pop culture or a commonly known work of literature
Literature which has stylistic aspects that clash with standard conventions
A type of story which is anachronistic
Another term for the hook of a story
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What is an Anecdote in Literature?
A misrepresentation of true events.
A story that centers around curing some type of disease.
A short story told within a work of literature
A work of literature written in the form of letters.
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What is Catharsis?
When a story dramatically shifts from negative to positive.
When a main character briefly ends their quest.
The emotional relief experienced by readers at the end of a tragic story.
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What is Masculine Ending?
Stressed extra syllable in the middle of the line
Stressed extra syllable at the end of the ine
Stessed extra syllable at the beggining of the line
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What is a Resolution?
The death of the main character
Solution to the conflict of the novel
The conflict of a novel
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What is a Literary Convention?
The typical plot lines, messages, and aspect of each genre of literature.
A piece of literature written in the traditional way.
A place where you can go to meet others who love the same books as you.
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What is Style?
The repetitive use of personification
The repetitive use of vowels
The distinctive features of the literary art or artist
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What is a Tragedy?
When an innocent character experiences a tragic fate
When the villain experiences a tragic fate
When the main character experiences a tragic fate
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What is Diction?
A short book of definitions.
Specific word choices or tone of speaking used to convert a message.
Enunciating certain words and not others.
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What is a Metonymy?
A word that displays the quality of a character
A word to stand for something else
An official title
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What is Figurative Language?
Language used to give physical descriptions of a character.
Speech that should not be taken at face value and has underlying meaning.
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What is a Protagonist?
A side character
The main character
The villain
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What should a reader consider when looking at diction?
What is the first word of each sentence and do they connect?
If it is meant to impact the story.
The purpose of the choices, if it is abstract or concrete, if it's constant
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What is a Bildungsroman?
A war story that originated in ancient Scandinavia.
A story which tells of a child growing up and "coming of age".
A story where a man betrays their father.
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What is a character Foil?
A character who acts in opposition to another.
A character who thwarts the efforts of another.
A character foil acts and behaves in contrast to another character.
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What is Prose?
Metrical Speech
Poetic Speech
Ordinary speech in paragraphs
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What is Free Verse?
A type of poetry which doesn't match any traditional styles.
Poetry written without a pentameter.
Poems which do not have any rythmes.
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What should students include in AP questions that involve page analysis?
An analysis of the meaning of the first sentence.
A summary of the page you have just read.
Stylistic words, regardless of whether or not the question mentions them.
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What is an Allegory?
A story that references other works of literature
A type of literature which has no inherent meaning
A story which is representative/symbolic of other ideas or messages.
A form of religious literature
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What is a Metaphor?
A comparison without "like" or "as"
The use of figurative language to portray emotions
A comparison using "like" or "as"
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What is an Epistolary Story?
A story told through the reading of letters.
A story told through the readings of online computer chats.
A story told from the persepctive of someone reflecting on the past.
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What is Repetition?
The successive use of a word or phrase
The use of a word as a comparison
The use of a word as a sound
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What is a Soliloquy?
When a character gives a speech to the audience
When a character speaks to another character
When a character talks to themselves to reveal their thoughts
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What is Assonance?
When the same consonant sound is repeated many times in a line of writing.
When the same prefix is repeated many times in a line of writing.
When the same suffix is repeated many times in a line of writing.
When the same vowel sound is repeated many times in a line of writing.
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What is Illocution?
Language that avoids the true meaning of words
Language that is very straightforward
Language that is very concise
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What is Imagery?
Portraying emotions through figurative language
Portraying relationships through figurative language
Portraying objects, actions, and ideas through figurative language
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What is Personification?
Inanimate objects producing human qualities
Objects containing meaning
Inanimate objects that act as a symbol
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What is a genre?
A certain type of literature or music having similar characterisitcs within
A type of literature that has no clear ending.
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What is an Epigraph?
An important line in a poem.
A quote or line that follows a poem.
A quote or line that precedes a poem.
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What is Rhyme Scheme?
The pattern of lines
The letters A,B,C,D
The pattern of end rhyme
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What is Anaphora?
Having identical opening and closing lines in a play.
Having two successive chapters start with the same sentence.
A form of Greek writing.
The same first fews words for multiple successive phrases or sentences.
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What is foreshadowing?
Events in the beggining of a novel mimicking later events.
Hints in a novel of events that will occur later.
When events of a novel do not happen chronologically.
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What is a Caesura?
A poem regarding Roman Battles
A break or pause in a line of poetry. It is also present in music.
When the first line of a poem matches the last line of that poem.
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What is an Epilogue?
An address to the audience before the start of a piece of literature.
An address to the audience following the end of a piece of literature.
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What is In Media Res
At the beginning
At the end
In the middle
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Deus Ex Machina
The ending of the story involving a God-like figure.
Mythological stories involving people trying to trick the gods.
When a force, at the end of the story, seeming randomly intervenes.
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What is a Euphony?
A string of words that are satisfying to listen to.
Words that are purposely unpleasing to hear.
A poem which is considered traditionally absurdist.
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What is Slang?
Informal humorous language
Poetic language
Formal language
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What is a Homonym?
Two similar sounding words with different meanings
Two similar words that mean the same thing
Two similar meaning words with different pronunciations
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What is an Elision?
When additional letters are added to certain words.
When words are omitted from sentences to build Diction.
When letters of certain words are purposely not included in order to rythme
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What should a student consider when looking at syntax?
Are all the sentences the same length?
Is the style constant, do the indepedant clauses relate to the dependent...
Do all the sentences seem to match each other is style?
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What is an Epic?
A short poem that contains a lesson.
A coming of age poem.
A long poem that follows the adventures of a traditional hero.
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What is Irony?
When something good happens at the expense of something bad
When one thing should happen but the other occurs
When something bad happens at the expense of something good
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What is a Blank Verse?
A line of iambic pentameter which does not rhyme.
A missing verse caused by historians being unable to retrieve the line.
A verse which does not contain any meaning.
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What needs to always be done when using literary terms for analysis.
Defining the literary terms.
Connecting the literary term to its goal and what it accomplishes.
Use the literary term multiple times.
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What is a Doppelganger?
Another character who is the mirror image of the main character.
A clone of the main character.
The opposite character to the main character.
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What is a Prequel?
A work that occurs before another work
A work that occurs during another work
A work that occurs after another work
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What is Memoir?
A true experience of an author for a specific time
A true experience of an author for their entire life
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What is Tone?
How the author constructs their writing
How the author feels or wants the audience to feel about the subject matter
How the author plans the plot
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What is Asyndeton
When a piece of literature uses no conjunctions
When conjunctions are emitted from grammatically correct places.
When additional conjunctions are added in grammatically incorrect places.
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What is a Denouement?
When a main character cannot choose whether or not to start their arc.
The common part in many stories where the hero faces a set back.
The ending or resolution of the main conflict in literature.
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What is folklore?
Tales and stories originating from certain cultures.
Stories that has been passed down between generations.
Fables coming from eastern Europe.
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What is Hyperbole?
Gross understatement
Gross exaggeration
