AP Language Term Def and Application Review

Hermione: Stop moving! I know what this is- it’s Devil’s Snare! Ron: Oh, I’m so glad we know what it’s called, that’s a great help. —Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

• irony
• sarcasm
• paradox
• verbal irony

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times [•••]—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

• homoteleuton
• chiasmus
• oxymoron
• paradox

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

My tongue is a dolphin passed out in an elevator.—Jeffrey McDaniel, “Dear America”

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• irony

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The building was pretty ugly and a little big for its surroundings.—John Steinbeck

• paradox
• oxymoron
• irony
• trope

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Then suddenly fire burst from the Meneltarma, and there came a mighty wind and a tumult of the earth, and the sky reeled, and the hills slid, and Númenor went down into the sea, with all its children and its wives and its maidens and its ladies proud; and all its gardens and its halls and its towers, its tombs and its riches, and its jewels and its webs and its things painted and carven, and its laughter and its mirth and its music, its wisdom and its lore; they vanished forever.— J.R.R.Tolkien

• asyndeton
• antanaclasis
• polysyndeton
• homoteleuton

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

New, and a bit alarming Who'd have ever thought that this could be? True, that he's no Prince Charming But there's something in him that I simply didn't see— “Something There” Beauty and the Beast

• litotes
• irony
• sarcasm
• paradox

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CCSS.L.8.5A

I had to wait in the station for ten days–an eternity.—Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

• litotes
• paradox
• hyperbole
• hypotaxis

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Water, water, everywhere And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, And not a drop to drink”

• irony
• paradox

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

cash me ousside howbow dah—Danielle Bregoli

• vulgate
• sarcasm
• slang
• disrespectful

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is sentimentalism?

• An excess of emotion to an occasion.

• A seven-line stanza

• Approximately 5 words.

• Words in an essay that alert the reader to a change in tone, direction, section, or category.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9