AP LIT EXAM PRACTICE

Vengeful, spiteful, vicious

Poe's "While I nodded, nearly napping" is an example of what?

High sounding or pompous

Major symbols include a dagger, love, poison, and stress...

Puritanical, righteous

Major symbols are tomb, bridal bed, and the chorus in this text...

Understood by a chosen few

lacking seriousness, playful, silly

Two stressed syllables (Example:  true blue)

haughty, distant

Major symbols include blood, weather, murders, and a dagger...

"They even love as though they hate" is an example of what?

Pompous, gaudy, inflated

Expressing sorrow

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" is an example of what?

Themes are lies and deceit, justice, reputation, and Satan vs. God...

10 syllables of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly in to the past."

Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds.

Joyful; happy

The line "Cannot be ill, cannot be good" is an example of what?

The line "Death, thou shalt die," contains which literary devices?

The continuation of the thought from the first to second line is an example of what?

"These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire…"

Authoritative, assertive, arrogant

"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"

uninteresting, tame, dull

"The moan of doves in immemorial elms, / And murmuring of innumerable bees" is an example of?

Eager, passionate, fervant

Caesar's famous line "I came, I saw, I conquered" is an example of what?

Symbols include the prison door and Pearl...

"Go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire" is an example of...

"The minister who has been called by God, ordained by God, appointed by God…"

common, stereotyped

Corse, indecent, tasteless

haughtily contemptuous

Referring to Macbeth as the "Fiend of Scotland" is using what device?

Lyric, melodious, romantic

lacking proper respect or seriousness

'Twas brillig and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe" (BEST answer)

"To be or not to be:  That is the question"...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" is an example of what literary device?

"In every cry of man / In every infant's cry of fear / In every voice, in every ban….

Starting a narrative in the middle of the action is known as what?

Bold, insolent

Vernacular

Didactic, scholastic, bookish

Unclear

Pair of syllables, when the first one is stressed and the second is unstressed...

Repetition of consonant sounds, following different vowel sounds. (Stroke of luck)

Scornful, disdainful, disrespectful

Ridiculing, ironic, mocking, taunting

The word "pondering" exhibits what type of metrical foot?

Rural and rustic

When Mercurtio refers to his mortal would as a "scratch" it is an example of what?

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"

The word-pairs "laughter/slaughter," "dive/give," and "laid/said" are examples of…?

"Creating a work of art is like giving birth" is an example of what literary device?

"It [jealousy] is the green-eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feeds on" contains what?

Form of meter consisting of one stressed followed by one unstressed syllable...