AP Terms Quiz

____________________ is an image, object, character, or action that stands in for an idea beyond its literal meaning.

• Talisman

• Alliteration

• Symbol

• Character

The final line of Tolstoy’s story, “How Much Land Does a Man Need,” reads thus: “Six feet from his head to his toes was all he needed.” The main character, Pahom, had been working for years to increase the amount of land he owned and died trying to get more. Therefore, this is an example of:

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Symbolism

• Hyperthyroidism

_______________ is the main idea of a story and the message that the story intends to communicate, often expressing a universal truth through the specifics of the story.

• Motif

• Climax

• Theme

• Resolution

In Saki’s story, “The Open Window,” the main character, Framton Nuttel, has gone to a country estate to recover from some mental issues (nerves). As soon as he gets there, the young girl tells him a story which finally causes him to make a “headlong retreat” and run out of the house in a panic. This is an example of a ___________ since the very place he went to recover has increased his mental problems.

• Irony

• Satire

• Hyperbole

• Simile

The narrator is:

• The speaker who tells the story, who may be a part of the story.

• The central character of a story, who is identical with the author.

• A character in the story who has no speaking part.

• Usually an adversary to the protagonist and who tells his/her side of the story.

What is Onomatopoeia?

• An authors unique sound

• Using sound effect words

• Using descriptive words

• An authors way of explaining a problem

What is a Hyperbole?

• Saying the opposite of what you mean

• Speaking in an exciting tone in an essay

• Using words with the same first letter repeatedly close together

• Overstating a situation for humor/ drama effect

How is Alliteration used?

• Using words that rhyme

• Using words with the same first letter repeatedly close together

• Using words that are opposite to one another

• Using very descriptive words

Juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced/parallel words

• asyndeton
• apostrophe
• antithesis
• conceit

A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatements.  For example, saying something is "not bad" as in not really that good.  

• juxtaposition
• paradox
• litote
• epoch