AP Literary Terms Review

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments. Love is not love/Which alters...."

Which is the correct suggestion for time allotment for each open response question?

Term for the basic unit of meter consisting of two or three syllables

In medieval physiology, four liquids in human body affecting behaviour.

Nine line stanza, first eight lines in iambi pentameter, ABABBCBCC

17th Century poetry; highly intelectual and often abstruse imagery

"To err is human; to forgive, divine!" - Alexander Pope

Extended fictional prose narrative with improbable events and characters.

Which of the following IS NOT a novella?

"Passion lends them power, time means, to meet." Romeo and Juliet

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was God." John 1:1

A form of extended metaphor in which objects and persons in a narrative are symbolic.

"I have only been married once... [a] consequence of a misunderstanding...”-Lane

Person created by the author to tell a story.

"Untroubled sleep," "peaceful dawn," "tired landscape," "anxious apple"

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair,Hover through the fog and filthy air.”- Macbeth

Literary works generally accepted as great.

Mild less negative word/phrase to replace a harsh, blunt one.

Term exemplified in the following: "Plan ahead: it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark."

Which would not be considered a novel of manners?

 "Let it come. I repeat it, sir: let it come." - Patrick Henry, "Speech ...Virgina Convention"

"He has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his friends." -Oscar Wilde

The reversal of the order of repeated words or phrases, intensifies ending or alternative.

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!"

Which of the following IS NOT a coming of age story?

A novel faithful to a particular region and its people.

Type of satire; a crude, bitter ridicule of personal appearance or character.

Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address

A coming of age novel is a

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