AP English Literary Terms

References to mythology in “So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr” are

The end rhyme of two words such as "wear" and "fair" is known as 

Whitman popularized the poetic form that ignores standard rules of meter and rhyme known as

The phrase, “Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike,” is an example of which technique?

Which type of poem has the following rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?

The blind prophet (i.e.Tiresias) is THIS type of symbolic character often copied in literature 

Shakespeare plays are nearly all written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, a rhythmic form called

All of the following passages contain examples of synecdoche EXCEPT

Which of the following lines does NOT contain oxymoron?

Recurring images of trees throughout Hurston's Their Eyes is an example of

All of the following passages contain examples of antithesis EXCEPT

Which of the following lines is written in trochaic tetrameter?

Frost almost always wrote with patterned rhyme & meter, an approach rejected in poetry called

All of the following passages contain examples of metonymy EXCEPT:

Rhythm in the line “They dove, splashed, floated, splashed, swam, snorted" is partly created by

An Italian/Petrarchan sonnet has an 8-line stanza and a 6-line stanza; in other words    

Elaborately extended metaphors that govern the entirety of most Shakespearean sonnets are

Tennyson's “In Memoriam A.H.H.,” a poem for a passed-away friend, is an example of a(n)

A type of lyric poem (made famous by Keats &Neruda) with serious subjects & dignified diction:

The semicolon in “To err is human; to forgive, divine” creates a mid-line audible pause called

Which type of poem has the following rhyme scheme: ABBAABBA CDECDE?

The phrase, “Hail, Holy Light, offspring of heaven firstborn!” employs these literary devices:

Which of the following is NOT an example of litotes?

English sonnets consist of three 4-line stanzas & one 2-line stanza; in other words... 

“All thy conquests, glories, spoils shrunk to this little measure" uses rhythmic listing called

The sounds in the line, “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” are best described as:

"With throats unslaked, black lips baked, Agape they heard me” has sounds best described as

The joyful song about dawn's beauty that begins Act 2.3 of Cymbeline is a poetic form known as 

The form of Dante's "Inferno" (with its 3-line stanzas w/ an aba bcb cdc, etc. rhyme scheme) is

In “To die, to sleep –  to sleep, perchance to dream,” a mid-line thought-pause is created by

Which of the following lines is written in trochaic tetrameter?

What type of end rhyme would define two lines ending with the words "love" and "prove"?

The structure of the phrase, “What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?” uses which technique?

All of the following passages contain examples of hyperbole EXCEPT?

Which of the following phrases is an example of a paradox?

Which of the following passages contains an example of synesthesia?

In Hamlet, Hamlet holds several conversations with himself. This drama technique is called a(n)

Which of the following phrases does NOT employ anaphora?

Which of the following phrases is NOT an example of a paradox?

Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," a vicious, accusatory type of speech is called

Which of the following phrases does NOT employ chiasmus?

Which of the following lines does NOT contain a euphemism?