AP Test Prep Pt. 3

Question 0

Point of view

Answer 0

The perspective from different angles of a story or of where the story is told.

Question 1

Narrative

Answer 1

The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.

Question 2

Personification

Answer 2

A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions.

Question 3

Prose

Answer 3

A type of genre that refers to ordinary forms of nonfiction and fiction.

Question 4

Parody

Answer 4

A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and /or ridicule.

Question 5

Periodic Sentence

Answer 5

A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end.

Question 6

Sarcasm

Answer 6

Language that is used to ridicule or hurt someone or something.

Question 7

Rhetorical modes

Answer 7

Different descriptions of major works of literature of writing,which include exposition, argumentation, description, narration.

Question 8

Rhetoric

Answer 8

This term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively.

Question 9

Pedantic

Answer 9

An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, bookish.

Question 10

Repetition

Answer 10

The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, grammatical pattern.

Question 11

Theme

Answer 11

The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers life.

Question 12

Satire

Answer 12

A work that targets human vices and follies, or social institutions and conventions, to reform or ridicule.

Question 13

Thesis

Answer 13

The sentences or group of sentences that directly expresses the author’s opinion, purpose, meaning, or position.

Question 14

Semantics

Answer 14

The study of actual meaning in languages; word combinations and phrases.

Question 15

Tone

Answer 15

Tone describes the author’s attitude toward his/her material, audience, or both.

Question 16

Style

Answer 16

The sum of an author’s choice of literary devices and the classification of an author to a group or in comparison to other similar authors.

Question 17

Transitions

Answer 17

A word or phrase that links different ideas.

Question 18

Syllogism

Answer 18

Two logical premises one major and other minor that lead to a sound conclusion.

Question 19

Syntax

Answer 19

The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses,and sentences.

Question 20

Understatement

Answer 20

The ironic minimizing of fact, understatement presents something as less significant than it is.

Question 21

Wit

Answer 21

Intellectual language that suprises and delights.

Question 22

Symbol

Answer 22

Anything that represents or stands for something else.