AP Lit Terms - Test 3

Question 1

A type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations.

Answer 1

Farce

Question 2

Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. Similes and metaphors are common forms.

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Figurative Language

Question 3

A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.

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Flashback

Question 4

A character who acts as contrast to another character. Often a funny side kick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting the hero.

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Foil

Question 5

The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.

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Foreshadowing

Question 6

Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme.

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Free verse

Question 7

A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement for effect.

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Hyperbole

Question 8

Sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them.

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Hypotactic

Question 9

The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place or an idea.

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Imagery

Question 10

The reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase

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Inversion

Question 11

A discrepancy between appearances and reality.

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Irony

Question 12

Occurs when someone says something but really means something else.

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Verbal Irony

Question 13

Takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen.

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Situational Irony

Question 14

Is so called because it is often used on stage. A character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better.

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Dramatic Irony

Question 15

Poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideias, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit.

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Juxtaposition

Question 16

A form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form.

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Litotes

Question 17

A term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and language.

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Local Color

Question 18

A sentence in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units.

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Loose Sentence

Question 19

A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker.

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Lyric Poem

Question 20

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles.

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Metaphor

Question 21

Does not state explicitly the two terms of comparison.

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Implied Metaphor

Question 22

A metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it.

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Extended Metaphor

Question 23

Metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid.

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Dead Metaphor

Question 24

Metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible.

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Mixed Metaphor

Question 25

A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it.

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Metonymy