AP Lit Poetic

What is the term for:

an indirect reference to something (usually a literary text, although it can be other things commonly known, such as plays, songs, historical events) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar.

• illusion

• rhetoric

• allusion

• analogy

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The correct term for:

the opposite of “Literal Language” is....

• diction

• connotation

• denotation

• figurative language

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My feet are so cold they feel like popsicles” is an example of:

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

• allusion

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"America is to the world as the hippo is to the jungle” is an example of:

• a metaphor

• simile

• analogy

• personification

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Word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind. Usually this involves the five senses is a literary device referred to as:

• imagery

• illsuion

• metaphor

• idiom

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When you say something and mean the opposite/something different is an example of which type of "irony"?

• dramatic

• verbal

• situational

• occasional

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When the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc. knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out--- is an example of:

• situational irony

• solliloquy

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

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Found in the plot (or story line) of a book, story, or movie.

Sometimes it makes you laugh because it's funny how things turn out. (For example, Johnny spent two hours planning on sneaking into the movie theater and missed the movie--- is an example of which type of irony?:

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

• unintended irony

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When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox – “wise fool,” “eloquent silence,” “jumbo shrimp" is an:

• paradox

• antonym

• synonym

• oxymoron

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A term for when an author sometimes places things side by side for the purposes of comparison- for the purpose of making a point--

• simile

• figurative language

• juxtaposition

• analogy

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