AP Literature Terms

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

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

Quality of being intentionally unclear.

A six line stanza is a:

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

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

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

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

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

Background information in a literary work.

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

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

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 _________________

How now brown cow is an example of:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Understatement is the opposite of

"He was not averse to taking a drink" and "she was no saint" are examples of

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

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

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

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

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

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

An anapest is:

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

Scansion

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

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

"Get your butt over here" is an example of

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

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

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

antecedent

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:

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

Which of the following works had a parallel plot?

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

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

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