AP Lit Review

Read the passage and select the word that best describes the tone:

"The house itself was far from the sprawling white mansion I remembered from my childhood. It looked smaller. The roof sagged and the plaster was cracked. The windows to the living room, the foyer and the upstairs guest bathroom were broken, patched haphazardly with sheets of clear plastic or wooden boards nailed across the frames. Like so much else in Kabul, my father's house was the picture of fallen splendor."

~Hosseini, The Kite Runner

• Sentimental

• Regretful

• Terrified

• Excited

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What literary device is used to add to the humorous tone of this passage?

This is spoken after Bottom has been transformed and his friends run aware in terror.

"BOTTOM

I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of

me, to fright me, if they could."

~Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream

• Understatement

• Pun

• Paradox

• Banter

What is juxtaposition?

• is the use of informal words, phrases, or even slang in a piece of writing.

• a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem, for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.

• a witty understatement that belittles or dismisses something or somebody; particularly by making use of terms that give an impression that something is less important than it is or it should be.

• a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Read the passage and select the word that best describes the tone:

"One day she is through and lets him know enough is enough. Out the door he goes. Clothes, records, shoes. Out the window and the door locked. But that night he comes back and sends a big rock through the window. Then he is sorry and she opens the door gain. Same story.

Next week she comes over back and blue and asks what can she do? Minerva. I don’t know which way she’ll go. There is nothing I can do."

~Cisneros, The House on Mango Street

• Sentimental

• Regretful

• Hopeless

• Conflicted

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is selection of detail?

• a literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters, or other elements of a work to the audience or readers. The word comes from the Latin language, and its literal meaning is “a showing forth.”

• refers to the details that the author reveals for the purpose of adding to the desired dominant impression. These details are selected based on what they tell the reader about the person, place or thing being described.

• a rhetorical or literary device in which a writer compares or contrasts two people, places, things, or ideas.

• a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. It often appears at the beginning of a story, or a chapter, and helps the reader develop expectations about the coming events in a story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Her eyes shone like two sapphire spheres upon the calm waves of her golden skin.

The sentence above is an example of

• Metaphor

• Synecdoche

• Simile

• synesthesia

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The sweet aroma of the freshly baked chocolate chip cookies wafted from the kitchen to the living room, causing Greg’s stomach to rumble.

The sentence above is an example of

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Situational Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is Satire?

• question asked for rhetorical effect to emphasize a point. No answer being expected; e.g. Robert, is this any way to speak to your mother?
• method of humorous or sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the opposite of their usual meaning; e.g. saying that a cold, windy, rainy day is lovely.
• literary work in which vices, abuses, absurdities. etc. are held up to ridicule and contempt; use of ridicule, sarcasm. Irony, etc. to expose vices, abuses, etc.
• A type of comedy which relies on physical humor; is considered a low form of comedy.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A woman cuts her hair and sells it to buy a new watchband for her husband. Meanwhile, the husband sells his watch to buy new brushes for his wife’s hair.

The sentences above are an example of

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• in Medias Res

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is irony?

• moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness, or a feeling of knowledge, after which events are seen through the prism of this new light in the story.

• a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.

• a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that ends up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated.

• the repetitive use of phrases or words that have similar meanings. In simple words, it is expressing the same thing, an idea, or saying, two or more times.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3