AP Literature Terms

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

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

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

masculine rhyme is

A six line stanza is a:

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

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

How now brown cow is an example of:

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

Understatement is the opposite of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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

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

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

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Get your butt over here" is an example of

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

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

An anapest is:

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

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

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

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

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

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

A rhetorical question:

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

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

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

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

Which of the following works had a parallel plot?

antecedent

Quality of being intentionally unclear.

Scansion

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

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

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

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

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

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

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

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

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

Background information in a literary work.