AP English Literary Terms

Question 1

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

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soliloquy

Question 2

All of the following passages contain examples of metonymy EXCEPT:

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Question 3

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

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Elegy

Question 4

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

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caesura

Question 5

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

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chiasmus

Question 6

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

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Time let me play and be golden in the mercy of his means.

Question 7

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

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conceits

Question 8

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

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euphonious

Question 9

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

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eye

Question 10

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

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Free Verse

Question 11

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

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ode

Question 12

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

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terza rima

Question 13

All of the following passages contain examples of synecdoche EXCEPT

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The flower wilted like a withering soldier

Question 14

Which of the following lines is written in trochaic tetrameter?

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While I pondered, weak and weary.

Question 15

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

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Shakespearean sonnet

Question 16

Which of the following is NOT an example of litotes?

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You cannot, will not, shall not pass.

Question 17

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

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Petrarchan sonnet

Question 18

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

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In order to preserve peace, we must prepare for war.

Question 19

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

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cacophonous

Question 20

All of the following passages contain examples of hyperbole EXCEPT?

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Jack bought a new set of wheels.

Question 21

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

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asyndeton

Question 22

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

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1 octave and 1 sestet

Question 23

Which of the following passages contains an example of synesthesia?

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The blue sounds of the sweet music eased me off to sleep.

Question 24

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

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masculine rhyme

Question 25

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

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blank verse

Question 26

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

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an aubade

Question 27

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

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apostrophe and alliteration

Question 28

Which of the following lines does NOT contain oxymoron?

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You can save money by spending it.

Question 29

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

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3 quatrains and 1 couplet

Question 30

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

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an invective

Question 31

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

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free verse

Question 32

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

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motif

Question 33

Which of the following phrases does NOT employ anaphora?

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The proud piper sang his song in sadness.

Question 34

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

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allusions

Question 35

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

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archetypal

Question 36

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

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chiasmus

Question 37

Which of the following lines is written in trochaic tetrameter?

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While I pondered, weak and weary.

Question 38

Which of the following lines does NOT contain a euphemism?

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Working in a coal mine is living death.

Question 39

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

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caesura

Question 40

Which of the following phrases does NOT employ chiasmus?

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I quietly spoke and they quietly listened.

Question 41

All of the following passages contain examples of antithesis EXCEPT

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This is no small problem.

Question 42

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

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asyndeton

AP English Literary Terms

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