Review Jeopardy

AP ENGLISHSemester II

Click Once to BeginJEOPARDY!• Fabulous prizes may be at stake.

• Rules….

• I am the decider of all things.

• No crybabies allowed.

Almost Almost done!done!

Finish Finish Well!Well!

Stay Stay Strong!Strong! Be a Giver!Be a Giver!

Say Say Goodbye to Goodbye to

your your Teachers!Teachers!

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A brief narrative of an A brief narrative of an entertaining and entertaining and presumably true presumably true

incidentincident

What is an ANECDOTE?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 McCarthy The Road (p. 52). The term for this kind of idea is ___________

What is THEME?What is THEME?

"We have come to dedicate a "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final portion of that field as a final resting place for those who resting place for those who here gave their lives. ...But here gave their lives. ...But in a larger sense in a larger sense we cannot we cannot

dedicate--dedicate--we cannot we cannot consecrate--consecrate--we cannot we cannot hallow--this ground” hallow--this ground”

contains an example ofcontains an example of

What is ANAPHORA?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 What is LITERARY CRITICISM?CRITICISM?

The speaker of a poemThe speaker of a poem

What is PERSONA?What is PERSONA?

A figure of speech in A figure of speech in which two which two

contradictory words or contradictory words or phrases are combined phrases are combined in a single expression, in a single expression, giving the effect of a giving the effect of a condensed paradoxcondensed paradox

What is an OXYMORON?What is an OXYMORON?

"We will not be "We will not be satisfied until justice satisfied until justice rolls down like waters rolls down like waters and righteousness like and righteousness like

a mighty stream” a mighty stream” contains examples ofcontains examples of ____________________ and ________________. terms

What is What is SIMILE and PARALLELISM?SIMILE and PARALLELISM?

Dylan Thomas' poem Dylan Thomas' poem about his father's about his father's

approaching death, approaching death, titled “Do not go titled “Do not go

Gentle into That Gentle into That Good Night" contains Good Night" contains

an example ofan example of

What is EUPHEMISM?What is EUPHEMISM?

(“Good Night” = death)(“Good Night” = death)

“Greed,” “death,” “man’s inhumanity to man,” or “journey

to adulthood” can best be described as

What is a MOTIF?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 What is a THEME STATEMENT?STATEMENT?

Overweening prideOverweening pride

What is HUBRIS?What is HUBRIS?

A narrative structure containing a A narrative structure containing a “story within a story” in which one “story within a story” in which one

character opens the story character opens the story and prepares the stage for and prepares the stage for another character or characters another character or characters

who narrate parts of the story as who narrate parts of the story as seen in works like seen in works like The The

Poisonwood BiblePoisonwood Bible is referred to as is referred to as

What is FRAME STORY?What is FRAME STORY?

A figure of speech that A figure of speech that substitutes the name of substitutes the name of

a related object, a related object, person, or idea for the person, or idea for the subject at hand, such subject at hand, such

as “crown” as a as “crown” as a substitute for king or substitute for king or

rulerruler

What is METONYMY?What is METONYMY?

The Greek term for The Greek term for tragic flaw, weakness tragic flaw, weakness

of character or error in of character or error in judgment, which judgment, which

causes the downfall of causes the downfall of the hero the hero

What is HAMARTIA?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 What is DRAMATIC IRONY?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?What is a PUN?

A comparison such as A comparison such as the Congo River to a the Congo River to a

snake in snake in Heart of Heart of DarknessDarkness that is that is

developed through developed through several references several references within a passage is within a passage is described as a/andescribed as a/an

What is EXTENDED What is EXTENDED METAPHOR?METAPHOR?

A figure of speech in A figure of speech in which opposing or which opposing or

contrasting ideas are contrasting ideas are balanced against each balanced against each other in grammatically other in grammatically

parallel structureparallel structure

What is ANTITHESIS?What is ANTITHESIS?

In literary terms: any In literary terms: any group of writings that group of writings that has been established has been established as authentic; more as authentic; more specifically, those specifically, those

books of the Christian books of the Christian BibleBible

What is the CANON?What is the CANON?

DAILY DOUBLEDAILY DOUBLE

The property of The property of seeming true, of seeming true, of

resembling reality; resembling reality; resemblance to reality, resemblance to reality,

realismrealism

What is VERISMILITUDE?

A sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances or situation especially in a literary work

What is PERIPETEIA?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?What is ANAGNORISIS?

A revealing scene or A revealing scene or moment ; an moment ; an illuminating illuminating discovery, discovery,

realization, or realization, or disclosuredisclosure

What is an EPIPHANY?What is an EPIPHANY?

Entrance ode by the Entrance ode by the choruschorus

What is PARADOS?What is PARADOS?

““To be, or not to be: To be, or not to be: that is what really that is what really

matters” is an awful matters” is an awful ___________ of the ___________ of the

famous opening lines of famous opening lines of Hamlet’s suicide Hamlet’s suicide

soliloquy soliloquy

What is a What is a PARAPHRASE?PARAPHRASE?

DAILY DOUBLEDAILY DOUBLE

SSimultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (as attraction and repulsion) toward an object,

person, or action

What is an What is an AMBIVELANCE?AMBIVELANCE?

FINAL JEOPARDY FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTIONQUESTION

A word or expression that can be understood in two or more

possible ways; uncertainty

What is AMBIGUITY?