AP Semester 2 Exam Review 2

Matters are left open to interpretation

A nobly born and/or influential character, yet has tragic flaw that leads to demise

Pleasant-sounding words

"I tried to talk to Toby ... but that is like trying to be friends with an evil snail."

A work that criticizes some aspect of society often through parody, exaggeration, etc.

The atmosphere of a literary work, created by concrete details

A lighthearted break in a series of tense, dramatic moments

The repetition of vowel sounds in several successive words

"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, / And often is his gold complexion dimm'd"

A speech made when the character is alone onstage that reveals thoughts and motivations

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"

A fictional narrative of book length

Calling out to someone or something not real or not present

"Wikipedia is the best thing ever..."

Excessive pride which leads to one's downfall

"I grant I never saw a goddess go"

A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme and a turn

The audience is aware of something the characters are not

A short piece of nonfiction prose in which a writer discusses some aspect of a subject

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on"

Two unlike things are placed next to each other for the sake of comparison

One character makes an onstage remark to another which the other characters don't hear

Two characters who have opposite traits

"Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; / Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn"

Harsh-sounding words

Written in a series of letters or diary entries