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Is AP...Lit?

Literary Devices

Question: What is the repetition of the first sound in words?

Ex. "Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns in August."

Answer: Alliteration

Question: What is the name of the literary device that exaggerates speech to express strong emotion, make a point, or invoke humor?

Ex. "You always get to go first!"

Answer: Hyperbole

Question: What is the literary device that is an expression in which two words that contradict are joined?

Answer: Oxymoron

Question: What literary device is one that contains an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth?
Answer: Paradox

Question: What literary device portrays a sudden moment of insight or realization?
Answer: Epiphany

Poems

Question: What is the name of a 2-lined stanza?
Answer: Couplet

Question: What type of poem is an extended narrative poem, written in an elevated style, recounting the deeds of a legendary or actual hero?
Answer: An Epic Poem

Question: What is poetry without rhyme or meter?
Answer: Free Verse

Question:

Who wrote this poem? Or what is the name of this poem?

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

Answer: Robert Frost or The Road Not Taken

Question: Who wrote this poem? Or what is the name of this poem?

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

Only this and nothing more.

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe or The Raven

Novels

Question: What is the name of the novel where a man goes mentally insane and dies in a country driven by wilderness?
Answer: The Heart of Darkness

Question: What novel does this quote originate from?

If I extinguish the candle, I can light it again if I regret it. But once I kill you, you beautiful, fake woman, I do not know the magic that could bring you back. When I’ve plucked this rose, I can’t make it grow again; it will have no choice but to wither and die. Let me smell you while you’re still on the tree

Answer: Othello

Question: What novel contained its main symbol around a tree?
Answer: Their Eyes Were Watching God- The Pear Tree

Question: From what novel does this quote originate?

"Wise sir, do not grieve. It is always better
to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.
For every one of us, living in this world
means waiting for our end. Let whoever can
win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,
that will be his best and only bulwark."

Answer: Beowulf

Question: What is the name of the novel in which the most frequent motif is "The ears or hearing"?
Answer: Hamlet

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Potpourri

Question: Which one of the Beatles was born first?
Answer: Ringo

Question: In the U.S what is happening every 12 seconds at a Holiday Inn?
Answer: Someone is stealing a towel

Question: What is Mrs.Schwery's first name?
Answer: Mrs.

hahaha tricked you

Question: What is the 6th planet away from the sun?
Answer: Saturn

Question: What is it illegal to do in Israel on a Saturday?
Answer: Pick your nose