AP Terms Quiz 3

1. Americo Paredes’s “The Legend of Gregario Cortez” contains many examples of __________________, such as when the narrator describes the gunman’s abilities by saying, “He could put five bullets into a piece of board and not make but one hole, and quicker than you could draw a good, deep breath.”

• A.

  Apostrophe

• B.

  Hyperbole  

• C.

  Metaphor

• D.

  Analogy  

2. Students who jokingly ask to “phone a friend” or “use a lifeline” during a quiz are making ________________ to the television show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

3. At the end of Romeo and Juliet, when Romeo finds Juliet in a drugged sleep, he assumes her to be dead and kills himself. Upon awakening to find her dead lover beside her, Juliet then kills herself.  This is an example of ________________. (Be specific)

4. Perhaps Shakespeare was using __________________ when he describes the two antagonistic families in Romeo and Juliet as “alike in dignity”; for, in fact, the Montagues and Capulets are highly competitive and completely undignified in behavior. (Be specific)

5.  In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” the speaker is stranded at sea and dying of thirst.  The following lines from the poem highlights the _________________ of his predicament. (Be specific) Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Not any drop to drink.

6. Referring to someone’s handwriting as his or her “hand” or calling a monarch “the crown” involves using ___________________.

7.  One of President John F. Kennedy’s most famous statements—“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate”—is an example of a ____________________.

9.  Poets, writers, and orators often use __________________ to link and emphasize ideas as well as to create pleasing musical sounds, such as the following line taken from a John F. Kennedy’s speech:                                    “[L]et us go forth to lead the land we love . . .”

10.  In Shakespeare’s Henry IV,  Prince Hal’s reference to the rotund Falstaff as “this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh,” is an example of a/an ___________________.

11.  That boy is chubby.  That boy is plump. That boy is obese.  Although all three sentences may have the same general idea, the different adjectives used to describe the boy carry varying _________________.

12.  A fork in the road and having to choose which path to take is a common __________________ many people use to illustrate the tough decisions one must make in life.

13.  To say, “The thorns of life rained down on him,” is to use a _________________________ because it is not to be taken literally.

19.  A ___________________  used to describe a person so inept at the computer as to not know a mouse from a memory stick is “technologically challenged.”

20.  The following sentence is an example of a _______________ construction.              I knew I had finally found a woman who would love me forever, who would never leave me for someone better, someone more handsome, someone more wealthy, someone more charming; for she herself had never known the love of another man, nor would she, with her mousey, timid nature that was frightened by the very shadow she cast upon the ground she dared not ever lift her eyes.

The attorney's use of family and friends' testimonies that his client, the defendant, is a "great guy whom everyone admires" and "a really good family man" was intended to _______________________ the prosecutor's portrayal of the man as a cold-blooded killer who had thrown his wife from the balcony to her death.

In the following passage from Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker," the author uses imagery and figurative language to create a creepy and threatening ________________________.