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AP Literary Devices

Authored by Camey Whitt

English, Arts

9th - 12th Grade

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AP Literary Devices
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character.

protagonist

foil

nemesis

antagonist

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.

allegory

antidote

allusion

malapropism

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

a special kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character, from his or her youth to adulthood.

Victorian

novella

fantasy

bildungsroman

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

is a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, or vice-versa.

metonymy

juxtaposition

synecdoche

zeugma

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

is a rhetorical device that features the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses.

anaphora

epistrophe

cadence

assonance

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

is a narration or description in which events, actions, characters, settings or objects represent specific abstractions or ideas; the meaning behind the surface narrative has even greater value as a literary work.

parable

adage

allegory

symbolism

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

is a poetic phrase or speech made by a character that is addressed to a subject that is not literally present in the literary work. The subject may be dead, absent, an inanimate object, or even an abstract idea

aside

soliloquy

apostrophe

monologue

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