Yuval Benit- AP Lang Key Terms Exam With Complete Solutions 2024

Absolute - correct answer-Definition: A word free from limitation Own Definition: No restrictions Example: Best Allegory - correct answer-Definition: An allegory is a symbolism device where the meaning of a greater, often abstract, concept is conveyed with the aid of a more corporeal object or idea being used as an example. Usually a rhetoric device, an allegory suggests a meaning via metaphoric examples. Own Definition: Using something to portray something else. Example:"Animal Farm", written by George Orwell, is an allegory that uses animals on a farm to describe the overthrow of the last of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and the Communist Revolution of Russia before WW I. The actions of the animals on the farm are used to expose the greed and corruption of the revolution. It also describes how powerful people can change the ideology of a society. One of the cardinal rules on the farm for the animals is: "All animals are equal but a few are more equal than others." Alliteration - correct answer-Definition: Alliteration is derived from Latin's "Latira". It means "letters of alphabet". It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. Own Definition: Like She sells sea shells by the seashore. Example: From Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea." Allusion - correct answer-Definition: Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text. Own Definition: like an undermessage, a hint Example: Milton's "Paradise Lost" gives allusions a fair share. Look at the example from Book 6 below: "All night the dread less Angel unpursu'd Through Heav'ns wide Champain held his way, till Morn, Wak't by the circling Hours, with rosie hand Unbarr'd the gates of Light. There is a Cave Within the Mount of God, fast by his Throne" In the above lines "dread less Angel" is a reference to "Abdiel", a fearless angel. "Circling Hours" alludes to a Greek Myth "The Horae", the daughters of "Zeus" and "Themis" namely "Thallo (Spring), Auxo (Summer) and Carpo (Fall). " With rosie hand" Milton refers to Homer's illustration of the "rosy fingered dawn" (Odyssey Book 2). Ambiguity - correct answer-Definition: Ambiguity or fallacy of ambiguity is a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. Own Definition: like fall, to fall and the season. Example: Read the following excerpt from "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger: "I ran all the way to the main gate, and then I waited a second till I got my breath. I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. I'm quite a heavy smoker, for one thing—that is, I used to be. They made me cut it out. Another thing, I grew six and a half inches last year. That's also how I practically got t.b. and came out here for all these goddam checkups and stuff. I'm pretty healthy though." The words "they" and "here" used by the speaker are ambiguous. But the readers are allowed to presume from the context that "they" might be the professionals helping out Holden and "here" might be a rehabilitation center. Analogy - correct answer-Definition: An analogy is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar. Own Definition: A comparison between two very different things. Example: The given lines are from Amy Lowell's poem "Night Clouds". "The white mares of the moon rush along the sky Beating their golden hoofs upon the glass Heavens." The poetess constructs the analogy between clouds and mares. She compares the movement of the white clouds in the sky at night with that of the white mares on the ground. Anaphora - correct answer-Definition: In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect is known as Anaphora. Own Definition: Repetition of the same word throughout every sentence. Example: Shakespeare does not disappoint us in the use of anaphora too. Read the following example taken from his play "Richard II" Act 2 Scene 1: "This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings [. . .] This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land," The repetition of the word "this" creates an emotional effect on the readers particularly those who are English. Further, it highlights the significance of England. The repetition of the word "dear" shows emotional attachment of the writer to the land and expects a similar response from the readers as well Antithesis - correct answer-Definition: Antithesis, literal meaning opposite, is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. Own Definition: Contrasting because two things are opposite.