Second AP Terminology Test

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repitition of the first sounds in words in a succesion.

Ex. Sally Sold

Question 2

Analogy

Answer 2

A comparison that demonstates the similarity or similarities between two things or concepts.
Ex. Hot:Cold::Summe:Winter

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

Figure of speech that references an important historcal culture, person, event or subject. It assumes a certain level of background knowledge on the part of of the reader.
Ex. Handwritting on the wall

Question 4

Balanced sentence

Answer 4

is a sentence that employs parallel structure in sentences, clauses, and phrases; used to emphasize contrast in meaning.
Ex. We remember writters because of their works, but we remember Obama works becase of who he is.

Question 5

Conceit

Answer 5

Very elaborate metaphor

Question 6

Didactic

Answer 6

Literture that has a primary purpodse of guidace, teaching, or instruction especially on ethical or religious purpose.
Ex The Ten Commandements

Question 7

Elegiac

Answer 7

Literture that expresses sorrow or lamentation.

Question 8

Hyperbole

Answer 8

Extravagant over exagerration usually for rhetorical effect.

Ex. She is as big as a house

Question 9

invectve

Answer 9

Harsh and abusive laguage directed at a person or cause.

Question 10

Loose Sentence

Answer 10

Opposite of periodic sntenc; a dependnt cluse followed by an indpendentclause: Main idea first.

Question 11

Non Sequitur

Answer 11

A statement that does not follow logic; is not clearly rlated to anything previouly stated.

Question 12

Parallel Sentence

Answer 12

A balanced sentence in whch we find similar words , smilar tenses, and similar strctures in its phrases ( if ore than one)

Question 13

Persona

Answer 13

The fictiona mask or vice an autho may adopt to tll a story. “A Mask” the way a person is pereived by others whch may or may notbe who tey really are.

Question 14

Pun

Answer 14

A play on words that are usually funny.

Question 15

Sarcasm

Answer 15

A sharp, bitter, cuttng remarks; a kind of irony, usually in the form of words that pear to praise, but intend to insult. A form of verbal iroy in which under the guides of paise is used to insult

Question 16

Specefic

Answer 16

A precise detail

Question 17

Sentence Variety

Answer 17

The practice of varying the length and structure of sentences to avoid monotony and prvide appropiate emphasis.

Question 18

Synecdoche

Answer 18

A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies a part.
Ex. All hands on deck

Question 19

Tautology

Answer 19

A phrase or expression in which the same thing is said twice in different words.

Question 20

Tone

Answer 20

Describes the author’s attitude toward his material, the audience, or both.