Ap Notes 41-60

Question 1

Short pointed memorable saying based on facts and it’s considered a veritable truth buy a majority of people.

Example, God helps those who help.

Answer 1

Adage

Question 2

Someone who is concerned with precision, formalism, accuracy, minute details in order to make an arrogant and ostentatious show of learning.

Example, Sheldon from the Big Bang theory.

Answer 2

Pedantic

Question 3

Lacking proper respect or seriousness. This is often associated with the impatience of youth.

Answer 3

Flippant

Question 4

Do use of language that suggest meaning other than the denotative. Language that connects with emotion or feelings not associated with the actual meaning of a word.

Answer 4

Evocative

Question 5

Also called Anastrophe, In literary style and rhetoric, The syntactic reversal of the normal order of words and phrases in a senates, as, in English, the placing of an additive after the noun it modifies, a verb before the

Answer 5

Syntactical inversion

Question 6

Frequently used for those literary text which are overloaded with Informative or realistic matter and are marked by the omission of grateful and pleasing details. Therefore it becomes a derogatory term referring to the forms of literature that are ostentatiously dull and erudite.

Answer 6

Didactic

Question 7

A figure of speech in which to vastly different objects are linked together with the help of similes or metaphors. These examples have a surprising or shocking affect on the readers because they are novel comparisons unlike the conventional comparisons made and similes and metaphors.

Answer 7

Conceit

Question 8

The repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause.

Example, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.

Answer 8

Ana diploids

Question 9

Is an error of chronological order timeline in a literary peace in other words anything that is out of time and out of place.

Answer 9

Anachronism

Question 10

A form of word play in which letters of a word or phrase are rearranged in such a way that a new word or phrase is formed.

Answer 10

Anagram

Question 11

Figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.

Answer 11

Hyperbole

Question 12

Word which imitates the natural sounds of things.

Answer 12

Onomatopoeia

Question 13

Has the main clause or predicate at the end. This is used for emphasis and can’t be persuasive but putting reasons for something at the beginning before the final point is made. It can also create suspense or interest for the reader.

Examples, in spite of heavy snow in cold temperatures, the game continued.

By helping us stay focused and maintaining a good attitude,Positive thinking is important for a happy life.

Answer 13

Periodic sentence

Question 14

A statement that appears to be self-contradictory You’re silly but may include a Latent truth. It is also used to illustrate an opinion or statement contrary to excepted traditional ideas. Is often used to make a reader think over an idea in a innovative way.

Example, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

I must be cruel to be kind

Your enemies friend is your enemy

Answer 14

Paradox

Question 15

Figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning other words it may also be a situation that may end up in quite a different way and then what is generally anticipated. In simple words it is a difference between the appearance and the reality.
Example, go ask him his name; if he be married. My grave is like to be my wedding bed.

Answer 15

Irony

Question 16

Is a stylistic the bus that comes from a Greek word, meaning to place or alongside. Is a quality or explanatory sentence, Clause or word that writers insert into a paragraph or passage. However, if they leave it out, even then Grammatically it does not affect the text that is correct without it. Ryder is mark them off by round and square brackets or by commas, dashes, little lines and brackets. As far as its purpose is concerned this verbal unit provides an extra information, interrupts syntactic flow of words, and allows the reader to pay attention on explanation.

Answer 16

Parenthesis

Question 17

Grimley mocking sarcastic, satirical, mocking in a humorous manner. This is one of those tone words that describes writing that fits the meaning.

Answer 17

Sardonic

Question 18

Is a technique employed by Writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or society by using humor, irony, Exaggeration or really cool. He intends to improve humanity by criticizing it’s Pauly’s and foibles.

Example, if this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.

Answer 18

Satire

Question 19

Relating to or involving strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious writing or speech

Answer 19

Polemical

Question 20

Is a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. Skilled writers use this with purpose and intent.

Example, I ran all the way to the main gate, and then I walked a second till I got my breath. I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. I am quite a heavy smoker for one thing-That is, are used to be. They made me cut it out. Another thing, I grew 6 1/2 inches last year. That’s also how I practically t.b

Answer 20

Ambiguity

Question 21

May be a character, a theme, a symbol or even a setting. Many literary critiques are of the opinion that archetypes, which have a common and reoccurring representation in a particular human culture or entire race, shape the structure and function of a literary work

Answer 21

Archetype

Question 22

Do use of Archetypical characters and situations give a literary work a universal acceptance, as a reader identify the characters and situations in their social and cultural context. By using common archetype, the writer attempts to import realism to their work, as a situation and characters are drawn from the experiences of the world.

Answer 22

functions of archetype

Question 23

Literary device that can be defined as a trait in a character leading to his downfall and the character is often the hero of a literary peace. This trait could be the lack of self knowledge, lack of judgment and often it is hubris(pride).

Example, to be or not to be – that is the question: whether his nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing in them. To die, to sleep… no more, and back to sleep to say we end the heart ache and 1000 natural shocks that that flesh is heir to, ‘it’s a consummation devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep……

Answer 23

Tragic flaw

Question 24

When someone makes a statement investing his strong believe in it, as if it is true though it may not be. A technique involving a strong declaration, a forceful or confident and positive statement regarding a belief or a fact. It is often without a proof or any support.

Example , I have put my every effort to complete this task today.

Answer 24

Assertion