AP Literature Terms

Quality of being intentionally unclear.

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

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

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

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

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

Understatement is the opposite of

A six line stanza is a:

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

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

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

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

antecedent

Background information in a literary work.

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

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

masculine rhyme is

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

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

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

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

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

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

An anapest is:

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

Which of the following works had a parallel plot?

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

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A rhetorical question:

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

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

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

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

Scansion

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Get your butt over here" is an example of

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