AP English Literature Vocabulary (FULL)

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1
"All hands on deck" is an example of what?
Synecdoche
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
2
Fill in the Blank: A Narrative poem is a poem that _________.
Re-lives the past
Becomes a Musical
Is always in first person
Tells a story
3
"Jumbo Shrimp" is an example of what figure of speech?
Metaphor
Simile
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
4
What type of poem contains conversation between a speaker and implied listener?
Boring Monologue
Dramatic Monologue
Monologue
Enraged Monologue
5
Fill in the Blank: An Octave is a(n) ______ line stanza.
Six
Eight
Eighteen
Three
6
What type of lyric poem extols the virtues of an ideal place or time?
Sonnet
Idyll
Ode
Elegy
7
Fill in the blank: An Epigram is a brief _____ poem
Boring
Sad
Funny
Witty
8
Fill in the Blank: An exposition is ______ information in a literary work.
Background
Important
Seconday
Primary
9
Fill in the Blank: A subplot is a _____ plot.
Primary
Secondary
Structured
Scansion
10
"Bang", "Hish", and "Splat" are examples of what?
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Simile
11
What is the method of narration referred to?
Characters
Story
Plot
Point of View
12
What is the writing that reflects the personal image of a character?
Picture
Image
Impressionism
Imagery
13
A reference contained in a work is called...?
Epigram
Scansion
Parody
Allusion
14
What is "Be with me beauty, for the fire is dying" an example of?
Colon
Period
Apostrophe
Comma
15
The story of "The Three Little Pigs" is mostly an example of a...?
Story
Personification
Poem
Fable
16
Synonyms: Resolution, Ending, Conclusion. What is the word?
Irony
Climax
Plot
Denouement
17
"The pen is mightier than the sword" is an example of what figure of speech?
Simile
Metonymy
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
18
What is the organization and form of a work?
Plot
Structure
Style
Pathos
19
What is this picture an example of?
Superman
Villain
Protagonist
Antagonist
20
Synonyms: Beautiful, Pleasant, Mellifluous. What is the word?
Cacophony
Metaphor
Understatement
Euphony
21
What does "the god from the machine" translate to in Greek? (Hint: resolves loose ends)
Deus Ex Machina
Machina of Deus
Machina
Machine God
22
Fill in the Blank: The Narrator is the _____ in a literary work.
Antagonist
Protagonist
Writer
Speaker
23
Fill in the Blank: A soliloquy is a characters _________.
Moves
Off-stage character
Inner thoughts
Spoken lines
24
What is this picture an example of?
Style
Plot
Catharsis
Theme
25
Synonym: parable, analogy, metaphor, symbol, emblem. What is the word?
Allusion
Anapest
Blank Verse
Allegory
26
Fill in the Blank:An Ode is ___ and celebrates a particular subject(More than one right answer)
Short
Long
Informal
Formal
27
An Elegy is a poem that...?
celebrates the dead
mourns the dead
kills every character
revives the dead
28
What literary term means characters look at the world diferently that us?
Magical Realism
Magicians
Magic
Realism
29
Metaphysical poetry explores ideas through what? (Contains more than one correct answer)
Parody
Metaphor
Imagery
Paradox
30
Lyric Poetry is characterized by what?
Creativity
Listening
Emotion
Sound
31
What is the repetitive pattern of beats called in poetry?
Rhythm
Scheme
Soliloquy
Rhyme
32
What is the authors attitude towards his subject?
Plot
Tone
Example
Theme
33
A sestina is composed of how many lines?
70
62
26
39
34
"The stars winked at me" is an example of what figure of speech?
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Oxymoron
35
What is this picture an example of?
Dactyl
Symbol
Foot
Octave
36
Ballad poems follow which rhyme scheme?
ABCD
ABAB
ABCB
ABCB
37
What is the underlying idea that the author illustrates?
Plot
Tone
Story line
Theme
38
What is this picture an example of?
Free Verse
Tercet
Ode
Couplet
39
Synonyms: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole. What is the word?
Literature
Figurative Language
English
Language
40
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of what?
Ballad
Alliteration
Couplet
Rhyme
41
What is the antonym of dactyl?
Spondee
Caesura
Iamb
Anapest
42
"Die to live" is an example of what?
Paradox
Satire
Oxymoron
Parody
43
Forshadowing is what in literature?
Future
Present
Time
Past
44
Fill in the Blank: Diction is the _______ choice of words.
Actors
Authors
Your
Characters
45
Fill in the Blank: A symbol stands for____.
Themes
Something else
Exposition
Plot
46
Fill in the Blank: A Tercet is a _____ line stanza.
Three
Two
Six
Five
47
What is "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" an example of?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Imagery
48
What is the implied meaning of a work?
Subtext
Text
Texting
Plot
49
What is this picture an example of?
Sestina
Spondee
Foot
Trochee
50
What is this picture an example of?
Iamb
Trochee
Irony
Spondee
51
An aubade is a love poem in what setting?
A farm
Dawn
Sunset
Night
52
What is a highly structured poetic poem that contains six stanzas?
Villanelle
Sestina
Tercet
Sestet
53
A syntax is a grammatical structure of what? (More than one correct answer)
Play
Musical
Poetry
Prose
54
A poem that doesn't rhyme is most likely known as?
Poetry
Blank verse
Lyric
Sonnet
55
What is the annotation of the pattern of a rhyme called?
Idyll
Stanza
Rhythm
Rhyme scheme
56
The person in literature who carries out the action of the plot is mostly likely known as?
Stage directions
Monologue
Understatement
Character
57
Antonym: Exaggeration, Hyperactive, Excited, Overwhelming. What is the word?
Understanding
Understatement
Statement
Overstatement
58
A Free Verse doesn't contain which of the following? (More than one correct answer)
Rhyme Scheme
Hyperbole
Irony
Meter
59
Synonym: harsh, discordance, racket, clamor, uproar. What is the word?
Cacophony
Lull
Villanelle
Euphony
60
"Wasn't that a dainty dish, || to set before the king?" is an example of?
Epic
Comma
Apostrophe
Caesura
61
Synonyms: peak, pinnacle, top, exciting, thrilling, turning point. What is the word?
Complex
Irony
Downfall
Climax
62
A sonnet consists of how many lines?
32
18
16
14
63
Synonym: Diction, Syntax, Imagery, Structure. What is the word?
Satire
Resolution
Style
Plot
64
A Monologue is a speech given by how many characters?
Six
One
Five
Two
65
Fill in the Blank: A Quatrain is a ____ line stanza.
Eight
Four
Seven
Eleven
66
What is a verbal approximation of an emotion?
Imagery
Picture
Image
Plot
67
What is the definition of an Epic poem?
A short poem mourning a hero
A long poem mourning a hero
A long poem celebrating a hero
a short poem celebrating a hero
68
What is a comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original?
Paradox
Parody
Comic Relief
Comedy
69
Fill in the Blank: A setting is a _____ in a story. (More than one correct answer)
Time
Plot
Occupation
Place
70
What is Pathos?
Intellect
Pity
A path
Literacy
71
What is the picture trying to give a literary example of?
Stealing the secret formula
Comic relief
Antagonist
Protagonist
72
This picture is an example of what type of characters in literature?
Antagonist
Protagonist
Comic relief
Tragic heroes
73
Fill in the Blank: Scansion is an analysis of a poems ____. (More than one correct answer)
Epic
Spondee
Scansion
Tercet
74
What writing criticizes the foibles and follies of society?
Solutions
Satire
Social ridicule
Satin
75
What are the repititions of images and ideas in a work called?
Motif
Repeating
Symbols
Motive
76
Synonym: Freedom, Adventure, Idealism, Escape. What is the word?
Torture
Satir
Trochee
Romanticism
77
What is this picture an example of?
Theme
Antagonist
Flashback
Tragic Hero
78
Fill in the blank: A Convention is a _________ aspect of literary work
Modern
Tacky
New
Traditional
79
What is the definition of a plot?
A lineup of characters
A sequence of events
Plotting points on a graph
Things that have happened
80
Examples: man vs man, man vs nature, man vs self, man vs God. What are they mostly examples of?
Epic
Conflict
Struggle
Battle
81
Fill in the Blank: A Parallel Plot is a ____ story.
Primary
Quaternary
Tertiary
Secondary
82
A Parable usually teaches what kind of lesson?
Interesting
Expressative
Rude
Moral
83
What is this picture an example of? (More than one correct answer)
Time
Rhyme
Rhythm
Rime
84
Fill in the Blank: A Meter is a pattern of ______ in poetry.
Octave
Rhythm
Beats
Rhymes
85
What are the specific instructions a playwright includes?
Plot
Stage directions
Parable
Directors
86
What is the total effect of related sensory images?
Image
Plot
Story
Imagery
87
What is this picture an example of?
Trochee
Form
Stanza
Spondee
88
"Your eyes are like stars" is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Oxymoron
89
What is "She is a walking dictionary" an example of?
Hyperbole
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
90
What is the interpretation of a word based on it images rather than its literal meaning?
Symbol
Anotation
Connotation
Denotation
91
What is the picture an example of?
Form
Hand
Shape
Picture
92
In Literature, a metrical unit is called?
Foot
Meter
Inch
Yard
93
A Flashback is a...?
Thoughts
Future thought
Deja Vu
Past thought
94
The literal meaning of a word is called?
Diction
Denotation
Connotation
Free Verse
95
What is this picture an example of?
Irony
Titanic water
Poems
Poetry
96
Fill in the Blank: A sestet is a ___ line stanza.
Six
Eight
Nine
Seven
97
What is a stanza?
Beats of a poem
Unit of a poem
Poem style
Poem structure
98
Synonym: Denouement. What is the word?
Resolution
Demote
Beginning
Declare
99
The word "aside" most likely means...?
Words said by the audience
Words said by an anonymous voice
Words spoken from an actor to the audience
Words said by an actor to another actor
100
Fill in the Blank: A Rhetorical Question does not expect a _____ answer.
Explicit
Right
Wrong
Implicit
101
What is the run-on of a stanza called?
Enjambment
Jamming
Jambment
Cutting

AP English Literature Vocabulary (FULL) Flashcards | StudBud

AP English Literature Vocabulary (FULL)

101 termsStudBud Administration

The full version of AP English Literature vocabulary terms.

Flashcards101 cardsFPractice quizPHost liveL

Questions 101

Answers

1
"All hands on deck" is an example of what?
Synecdoche
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
2
Fill in the Blank: A Narrative poem is a poem that _________.
Re-lives the past
Becomes a Musical
Is always in first person
Tells a story
3
"Jumbo Shrimp" is an example of what figure of speech?
Metaphor
Simile
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
4
What type of poem contains conversation between a speaker and implied listener?
Boring Monologue
Dramatic Monologue
Monologue
Enraged Monologue
5
Fill in the Blank: An Octave is a(n) ______ line stanza.
Six
Eight
Eighteen
Three
6
What type of lyric poem extols the virtues of an ideal place or time?
Sonnet
Idyll
Ode
Elegy
7
Fill in the blank: An Epigram is a brief _____ poem
Boring
Sad
Funny
Witty
8
Fill in the Blank: An exposition is ______ information in a literary work.
Background
Important
Seconday
Primary
9
Fill in the Blank: A subplot is a _____ plot.
Primary
Secondary
Structured
Scansion
10
"Bang", "Hish", and "Splat" are examples of what?
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Simile
11
What is the method of narration referred to?
Characters
Story
Plot
Point of View
12
What is the writing that reflects the personal image of a character?
Picture
Image
Impressionism
Imagery
13
A reference contained in a work is called...?
Epigram
Scansion
Parody
Allusion
14
What is "Be with me beauty, for the fire is dying" an example of?
Colon
Period
Apostrophe
Comma
15
The story of "The Three Little Pigs" is mostly an example of a...?
Story
Personification
Poem
Fable
16
Synonyms: Resolution, Ending, Conclusion. What is the word?
Irony
Climax
Plot
Denouement
17
"The pen is mightier than the sword" is an example of what figure of speech?
Simile
Metonymy
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
18
What is the organization and form of a work?
Plot
Structure
Style
Pathos
19
What is this picture an example of?
Superman
Villain
Protagonist
Antagonist
20
Synonyms: Beautiful, Pleasant, Mellifluous. What is the word?
Cacophony
Metaphor
Understatement
Euphony
21
What does "the god from the machine" translate to in Greek? (Hint: resolves loose ends)
Deus Ex Machina
Machina of Deus
Machina
Machine God
22
Fill in the Blank: The Narrator is the _____ in a literary work.
Antagonist
Protagonist
Writer
Speaker
23
Fill in the Blank: A soliloquy is a characters _________.
Moves
Off-stage character
Inner thoughts
Spoken lines
24
What is this picture an example of?
Style
Plot
Catharsis
Theme
25
Synonym: parable, analogy, metaphor, symbol, emblem. What is the word?
Allusion
Anapest
Blank Verse
Allegory
26
Fill in the Blank:An Ode is ___ and celebrates a particular subject(More than one right answer)
Short
Long
Informal
Formal
27
An Elegy is a poem that...?
celebrates the dead
mourns the dead
kills every character
revives the dead
28
What literary term means characters look at the world diferently that us?
Magical Realism
Magicians
Magic
Realism
29
Metaphysical poetry explores ideas through what? (Contains more than one correct answer)
Parody
Metaphor
Imagery
Paradox
30
Lyric Poetry is characterized by what?
Creativity
Listening
Emotion
Sound
31
What is the repetitive pattern of beats called in poetry?
Rhythm
Scheme
Soliloquy
Rhyme
32
What is the authors attitude towards his subject?
Plot
Tone
Example
Theme
33
A sestina is composed of how many lines?
70
62
26
39
34
"The stars winked at me" is an example of what figure of speech?
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Oxymoron
35
What is this picture an example of?
Dactyl
Symbol
Foot
Octave
36
Ballad poems follow which rhyme scheme?
ABCD
ABAB
ABCB
ABCB
37
What is the underlying idea that the author illustrates?
Plot
Tone
Story line
Theme
38
What is this picture an example of?
Free Verse
Tercet
Ode
Couplet
39
Synonyms: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole. What is the word?
Literature
Figurative Language
English
Language
40
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of what?
Ballad
Alliteration
Couplet
Rhyme
41
What is the antonym of dactyl?
Spondee
Caesura
Iamb
Anapest
42
"Die to live" is an example of what?
Paradox
Satire
Oxymoron
Parody
43
Forshadowing is what in literature?
Future
Present
Time
Past
44
Fill in the Blank: Diction is the _______ choice of words.
Actors
Authors
Your
Characters
45
Fill in the Blank: A symbol stands for____.
Themes
Something else
Exposition
Plot
46
Fill in the Blank: A Tercet is a _____ line stanza.
Three
Two
Six
Five
47
What is "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" an example of?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Imagery
48
What is the implied meaning of a work?
Subtext
Text
Texting
Plot
49
What is this picture an example of?
Sestina
Spondee
Foot
Trochee
50
What is this picture an example of?
Iamb
Trochee
Irony
Spondee
51
An aubade is a love poem in what setting?
A farm
Dawn
Sunset
Night
52
What is a highly structured poetic poem that contains six stanzas?
Villanelle
Sestina
Tercet
Sestet
53
A syntax is a grammatical structure of what? (More than one correct answer)
Play
Musical
Poetry
Prose
54
A poem that doesn't rhyme is most likely known as?
Poetry
Blank verse
Lyric
Sonnet
55
What is the annotation of the pattern of a rhyme called?
Idyll
Stanza
Rhythm
Rhyme scheme
56
The person in literature who carries out the action of the plot is mostly likely known as?
Stage directions
Monologue
Understatement
Character
57
Antonym: Exaggeration, Hyperactive, Excited, Overwhelming. What is the word?
Understanding
Understatement
Statement
Overstatement
58
A Free Verse doesn't contain which of the following? (More than one correct answer)
Rhyme Scheme
Hyperbole
Irony
Meter
59
Synonym: harsh, discordance, racket, clamor, uproar. What is the word?
Cacophony
Lull
Villanelle
Euphony
60
"Wasn't that a dainty dish, || to set before the king?" is an example of?
Epic
Comma
Apostrophe
Caesura
61
Synonyms: peak, pinnacle, top, exciting, thrilling, turning point. What is the word?
Complex
Irony
Downfall
Climax
62
A sonnet consists of how many lines?
32
18
16
14
63
Synonym: Diction, Syntax, Imagery, Structure. What is the word?
Satire
Resolution
Style
Plot
64
A Monologue is a speech given by how many characters?
Six
One
Five
Two
65
Fill in the Blank: A Quatrain is a ____ line stanza.
Eight
Four
Seven
Eleven
66
What is a verbal approximation of an emotion?
Imagery
Picture
Image
Plot
67
What is the definition of an Epic poem?
A short poem mourning a hero
A long poem mourning a hero
A long poem celebrating a hero
a short poem celebrating a hero
68
What is a comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original?
Paradox
Parody
Comic Relief
Comedy
69
Fill in the Blank: A setting is a _____ in a story. (More than one correct answer)
Time
Plot
Occupation
Place
70
What is Pathos?
Intellect
Pity
A path
Literacy
71
What is the picture trying to give a literary example of?
Stealing the secret formula
Comic relief
Antagonist
Protagonist
72
This picture is an example of what type of characters in literature?
Antagonist
Protagonist
Comic relief
Tragic heroes
73
Fill in the Blank: Scansion is an analysis of a poems ____. (More than one correct answer)
Epic
Spondee
Scansion
Tercet
74
What writing criticizes the foibles and follies of society?
Solutions
Satire
Social ridicule
Satin
75
What are the repititions of images and ideas in a work called?
Motif
Repeating
Symbols
Motive
76
Synonym: Freedom, Adventure, Idealism, Escape. What is the word?
Torture
Satir
Trochee
Romanticism
77
What is this picture an example of?
Theme
Antagonist
Flashback
Tragic Hero
78
Fill in the blank: A Convention is a _________ aspect of literary work
Modern
Tacky
New
Traditional
79
What is the definition of a plot?
A lineup of characters
A sequence of events
Plotting points on a graph
Things that have happened
80
Examples: man vs man, man vs nature, man vs self, man vs God. What are they mostly examples of?
Epic
Conflict
Struggle
Battle
81
Fill in the Blank: A Parallel Plot is a ____ story.
Primary
Quaternary
Tertiary
Secondary
82
A Parable usually teaches what kind of lesson?
Interesting
Expressative
Rude
Moral
83
What is this picture an example of? (More than one correct answer)
Time
Rhyme
Rhythm
Rime
84
Fill in the Blank: A Meter is a pattern of ______ in poetry.
Octave
Rhythm
Beats
Rhymes
85
What are the specific instructions a playwright includes?
Plot
Stage directions
Parable
Directors
86
What is the total effect of related sensory images?
Image
Plot
Story
Imagery
87
What is this picture an example of?
Trochee
Form
Stanza
Spondee
88
"Your eyes are like stars" is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Oxymoron
89
What is "She is a walking dictionary" an example of?
Hyperbole
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
90
What is the interpretation of a word based on it images rather than its literal meaning?
Symbol
Anotation
Connotation
Denotation
91
What is the picture an example of?
Form
Hand
Shape
Picture
92
In Literature, a metrical unit is called?
Foot
Meter
Inch
Yard
93
A Flashback is a...?
Thoughts
Future thought
Deja Vu
Past thought
94
The literal meaning of a word is called?
Diction
Denotation
Connotation
Free Verse
95
What is this picture an example of?
Irony
Titanic water
Poems
Poetry
96
Fill in the Blank: A sestet is a ___ line stanza.
Six
Eight
Nine
Seven
97
What is a stanza?
Beats of a poem
Unit of a poem
Poem style
Poem structure
98
Synonym: Denouement. What is the word?
Resolution
Demote
Beginning
Declare
99
The word "aside" most likely means...?
Words said by the audience
Words said by an anonymous voice
Words spoken from an actor to the audience
Words said by an actor to another actor
100
Fill in the Blank: A Rhetorical Question does not expect a _____ answer.
Explicit
Right
Wrong
Implicit
101
What is the run-on of a stanza called?
Enjambment
Jamming
Jambment
Cutting