AP Lit Poetic Devices, Forms, and Other Literary Terms Review Quiz

Question 1

Literary era attempting to show life as it really is, & the environment shaping human character

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Naturalism

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; the spring of hope, the winter of despair

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Antithesis

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A poetic lament of the death of a particular person, usually ending on a consoling note

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elegy

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"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk..."

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This is Romantic poetry

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When an event or situation may be interpreted in more than one way

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Amiguity

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"I feel depressed and restless" is an example of this poetic device:

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assonance

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A major character lacking conventional noble qualities such as idealism, courage, or morality.

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Antihero

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"Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike." is an example of this:

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antimetabole, chiasmus

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This poetic form has fourteen lines and a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG:

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Shakespearean Sonnet

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"Pitter patter" and "pish posh" are examples of this poetic device:

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consonance

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"'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house..." is an example of this narrator:

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Subjective

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Brief story, usually told to illustrate a particular point or serve as an example of something

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Anecdote

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This is a four-line stanza:

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quatrain

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The opening line of this poem features what device?

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Apostrophe

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This poem usually tells a story and is usually folksy and sentimental.

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ballad

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"The white foam flew/ The furrow follows free" is an example of this poetic device:

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alliteration

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"He's OUT OF HIS HEAD if he thinks I'm GONNA GO FOR such a stupid idea."

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colloquialism

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This poetic form has 19 lines; it features heavily repeated lines.

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villanelle

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This poetic form has fourteen lines (octet and a sestet) and a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA CDECDE:

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Petrarchan sonnet

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Word or phrase that is overused and has become stale, lifeless, or less meaningful as a result

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Cliche

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"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."

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Metaphor

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This elevated poetic form is about something serious and is meant to praise or exalt:

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Ode

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A story whose characters, events, etc. have a separate, abstract meaning from the actual story

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Allegory

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"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

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Anaphora

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"Common sense is not so common." is an example of this:

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paradox

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“Rough in the ghetto, but in jail he’s Jello.” (Kool G. Rap)

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Juxtaposition

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In those elder days, fukú had it good; even had a hypeman of sorts, a high priest you could say

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Vernacular

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Literary movement most associated with society, manners, class, and nostalgia.

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Victorian

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"She was breathtakingly beautiful, but he knew that she was the forbidden fruit."

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Allusion

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"I hear/The strain of strutting chanticleer/ Cry, ‘cock-a-diddle-dow!'” = this poetic device:

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onomatopoeia

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Poem describing a country/pastoral scene and praising the simplicity and peace of rustic life:

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idyll

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“‘... tis true this god did shake.” (Cassius, Julius Caesar)

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Irony

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This is a term used to refer to the turn--or change in tone or perspective--in a sonnet:

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volta

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A poem written in the form of (or as if it were) a letter.

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Epistle

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"We must hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends."

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Asyndeton

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"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."

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Analogy

AP Lit Poetic Devices, Forms, and Other Literary Terms Review Quiz

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AP Lit Poetic Devices, Forms, and Other Literary Terms Review Quiz

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