AP Literature Terms

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

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

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

An anapest is:

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

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

Understatement is the opposite of

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

"Get your butt over here" is an example of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How now brown cow is an example of:

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

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

Scansion

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

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

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

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which of the following works had a parallel plot?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

masculine rhyme is

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

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

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

antecedent

Background information in a literary work.

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:

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

A six line stanza is a:

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

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Quality of being intentionally unclear.

A rhetorical question: