Difficult AP Literature Terms

The word "faithful" mimics the beat of what metrical foot?

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Half a league, half a league/Half a league onward contains what kind of metric foot?

A rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter is a _______________.

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”

A six line stanza is a:

"You can take the girl out of the country but you cannot take the country out of the girl" is a

Words spoken by an author intended to be heard by the audience but not other characters:

The metrical foot that echoes the sound of life-a heartbeat.

Highly structured poem: six stanzas-five tercets, a quatrain and repeating first and third line

Understatement is the opposite of

"Little strokes/Fell great oaks" is an example of an:

Moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge

According to Aristotle, the release of emotions that the audience of a tragedy experiences.

Ridiculing writing , criticizing the corruption or foolishness of society, intended to improve.

masculine rhyme is

A simple narrative poem often with dialogue, written in quatrains, with a rhyme scheme of abcd

"Get your butt over here" is an example of

"Be with me Beauty, for the fire is dying." Keats

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

A story that operates on more than one level and usually teaches a moral lesson is a:

"When she saw the monster she was putrified" contains an example of:

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

A rhetorical question:

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

Like the downward smoke, the slender stream/Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem

"He was not averse to taking a drink" and "s:he was no saint" are examples of

Genre is which characters experience reality differently from what we term the objective world.

A quotation placed at the beginning of a novel or other document.

antecedent

Background information in a literary work.

Scansion

Genre of poetry characterized by short lyric poems by courtiers with a theme of "carpe diem."

A kind of comedy that relies on exaggerated or improbable situations or sexual innuendo.

A soliloquy in a Shakespearean play is an example of a/an:

figure of speech- replaces the name of something with a word closely associated with it

How now brown cow is an example of:

A love poem set at dawn which bids farewell to the beloved.

An anapest is:

A type of poem which extols the virtues of and ideal place or time.

Short non-narrative poem characterized by personal feelings and musicality such as an ode.

Poetry characterized by highly complex, philosophical ideas, paradox and extended metaphors.

Quality of being intentionally unclear.

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except: