Ap Lit Vocab Quiz 2

Any figure of speech that was once clever and original but through overuse has become outdated. If you’ve heard more than two or three other people say it more than two or three times, chances are the phrase is too timeworn to be useful in your writing.

• Synecdoche

• Euphemism

• Cliche'

• Enjambment

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

An attempt to fuse different senses by describing one kind of sense impression in words normally used to describe another.

• Synesthesia

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A question solely for effect, which does not require an answer. By the implication the answer is obvious, it is a means of achieving an emphasis stronger than a direct statement.

• Exclamatory Statement

• Rhetorical Question

• Implied Question

• Allusion

A contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Irony

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it.

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Pun

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

One single line of a poem arranged in a metrical pattern. Also, a piece of poetry or a particular form of poetry

• Verse

• Rhyme

• Stanza

• Refrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Speaking directly to a real or imagined listener or inanimate object; addressing that person or thing by name.

• Apostrophe

• Exclamation

• Interjection

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A brief reference to some person, historical event, work of art, or Biblical or mythological situation or character.

• Illusion

• Allusion

• Reflection

• Citation

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance – a flag to represent a country, a lion to represent courage, a wall to symbolize separation.

• Emblem

• Icon

• Symbol

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Form in Poetry is describes as: The arrangement or method used to convey the content, such as free verse, ballad, haiku, etc. In other words, the “way-it-is-said.” Please check all of the real poetic forms below

• Couplet

• Open

• Closed

• Quatrain

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D