AP Lit Exam Review

What is the "turn in thought" in a sonnet called?

“Oh! Stars and clouds and winds ye are all about to mock me…” (Frankenstein)

Which device best describes a contrast between what a character says and what the audience knows to be true?

Which best describes the use of “winter” to represent death?

What is Part I of the AP Literature Exam?

Formal, informal, colloquial, abstract, concrete, esoteric, trite are all examples of

When a statement seems contradictory but is not, it is called:

What is a poem with 3 quatrains and a couplet. Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg

What is a post-industrial literary movement that rejected Romanticism?

“This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.”Which device is most clearly at work in this ending?

Which device is most helpful in conveying a speaker’s internal conflict?

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind

Which of these devices is used when a speaker addresses someone or something not present?

What are the three essay questions about?

“I wandered lonely as a cloud” What does the simile suggest about the speaker’s emotional  state?

What is the repetition of initial word or words in a clause?

“...Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” What is the function of repetition in this excerpt?

Open secret, deafening war, small crowd: These are examples of what?

I could have hung my hat on my eyes they stuck out so far. (Mark Twain)