AP Literature Terms

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

Understatement is the opposite of

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

Scansion

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

A _____________ is usually paired with an octave to make a Petrarchan sonnet.

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

Restraint, clarity, noble purpose, and objectivity are hallmarks of _________________.

"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:

How now brown cow is an example of:

Background information in a literary work.

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

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

The purpose of the rhetorical appeal of ethos is to __________________.

An anapest is:

Which of the following works point out the compromised position of women?

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

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

Quality of being intentionally unclear.

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

A rhetorical question:

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

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

Hamlet is speaking in ________ when he says "I must be cruel only to be kind."

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

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

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

One might write a/an ________________for Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, or your high school career.

Transparent language, lack of sentimentality, psychology, and objectivity.

antecedent

Which of the following works had a parallel plot?

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:

"Sofie was no ordinary Jesus" is an example of a _______________.

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

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

According to Aristotle, a tragic hero must have all of the following traits except _______.

The rhetorical appeal that would inspire feelings of pity, sympathy, or sorrow would be ____.

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

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

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

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

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

The words, downtown, earthquake, and doorstop are all _________________

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

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

"Goodbye Chris Hemsworth, I bid you adieu, as I tiptoe through the early morning dew"

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

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

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

The literary movement that takes realism to the extreme and depicts man as an animal in society

masculine rhyme is

A six line stanza is a:

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

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

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

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

A literary movement that stressed "art for art's sake" and defied conventions was _____________

"Get your butt over here" is an example of