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AP Lit Poetry Review
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1
Blank verse refers to…
Rhyming free verse
Unrhymed free verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Rhyming iambic pentameter
2
Which of the following poets did not belong in the Romantic Era?
Dylan Thomas
Edgar Allan Poe
William Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
3
A synecdoche is a figure of speech used when….
A reference is made to a historical person
A part is made to represent the whole
A comparison is made with the words “like” or “as”
Human characteristics are attributed to an inanimate object
4
A Ballad is characterized as a poem that…
Narrates a dramatic story in short stanzas
Contains little to no action
Has two lines per stanza that pertains to love
Only has been used in the Romantic era
5
Dactyls and spondees are terms which refer to a poem’s…
Theme
Structure
Rhythm
Rhyme
6
This type of meter/rhythm was commonly used by William Shakespeare:
Trochaic trimeter
Spondaic hexameter
Iambic pentameter
Hamletian Mixometer
7
Which of the following poetic terms has to do with the repetition of vowel sounds?
Consonance
Anaphora
Aubade
Assonance
8
William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow” employs which of the following devices?
Imagery
Dramatic irony
Simile
Personification
9
What is “a pair of rhymed lines that may or may not create a separate stanza in a poem”?
Coltrane
Quatrain
Couplet
Tercet
10
This poet was greatly influenced by his experience in Vietnam during the Vietnam War:
Yusef Komunyakaa
Frank O’Hara
Allen Ginsberg
Wallace Stevens
11
The turning point in a Petrarchan sonnet happens in the:
Couplet
Second Octet
Sestet
First Octet
12
The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line:
Elision
Elicit
Elegy
Ellipses
13
Placing things side by side for purpose of comparison is called…..
Paradox
Euphemism
Juxtaposition
Euphony
14
“Adonais” by Percy Bysshe Shelley was...
The prequel to Frankenstein
An elegy on the death of John Keats
A sonnet about the author’s love toward Mary Shelley
An ode to a grecian urn
15
What is a caesura in poetry?
A strong pause within a line of verse
The use of words to imitate sounds they describe
A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
A figure of speech where a part is substituted for a whole
16
The line “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life/ Now wears his crown" from
Hamlet
uses:
Simile
Hyperbole
Metonymy
Anapest
17
Poetic form characterized by unrhymed iambic pentameter and flexibility in structure.
Long Verse
Free Verse
Blank Verse
Converse
18
Which of the following poetic devices is NOT employed in these lines?
Onomatopoeia
Internal rhyme
Trochee
Cacophony
19
Shakespearean sonnet always ends in a…
couplet
Five line stanza
Quatrain
Six line stanza
20
“O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done...” in Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” is
Allegory
Aubade
Allusion
Apostrophe
21
A combination of words pleasant to the ear are called:
Heroic
Cacophony
Figurative
Euphony
22
A movement in early 20th-century poetry that sought clarity through the use of precise images.
Imism
Imagism
Imaginationism
Imaginism
23
This Romantic poet’s imaginative and emotional works included “Ode on a Grecian Urn”.
W.B. Yeats
William Wordsworth
William Blake
John Keats
24
Which of the following is NOT a common theme in Romantic-era poetry?
Abandonment to emotion
Emphasis on the individual and originality
A search for universal truth
Beauty in nature
25
In this poem, Ginsberg makes references to Whitman to do all of the following EXCEPT
Show respect and reverence for Whitman
Liken his own poetic style to that of Whitman
Compare his own experiences to those of Whitman
Convey romantic feelings for Whitman
26
John Donne commonly wrote his poems about
Friendship and camaraderie
Love, sexuality, and religion
Democracy
Death and marriage
27
The turning point or resolution in a Shakespearean sonnet happens in the:
Third quatrain
Second quatrain
First quatrain
Couplet
28
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of epic poetry?
Primary epics were centered around a specific nation/culture
Only exist in Ancient cultures
Originated from oral storytelling
Subjects centered around religious and mythological themes
29
A combination of words unpleasant to the ear are called:
Euphony
Cacophony
Figurative
Heroic
30
What is the narrator’s main struggle in John Donne’s poem “The Flea”?
He feels he is insignificant in the world
He fears insects
He has issues with his identity
A girl will not have sex with him
31
When a speaker breaks from addressing one party and addresses a 3rd party, this is:
Allusion
Apostrophe
Caesura
Enjambment
32
The albatross in the excerpt below serves all of the following purposes EXCEPT
A sign of shame and regret for the Mariner
A symbol for purity and innocence
A manifestation of the large size of the sea
A precursor to good weather
33
Which of the following poets is NOT correctly paired with one of his/her works?
John Milton - Paradise Lost
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Edgar Allan Poe - “The Raven”
Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
34
All of the following are poetic terms used in describing rhythm except…
Spondee
Assonance
Dactyl
Trochee
35
He was known for lyrical ballad poems. Romantic author of “The Rime of The Ancient Mariner.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keates
William Blake
36
A metaphor is a:
repeated consonant sound
figurative language of comparison without a comparative term
Comparison using like or as
repeated vowel sound
37
What is a conceit in poetry?
An extended simile
An extended metaphor
An egotistical poet
An image
38
A word or group of words placed beside a noun to supplement its meaning is a….
Syntax
Clause
Litotes
Appositive
39
The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences is
Syntax
Antithesis
Juxtaposition
Anaphora
40
Lyrical Ballads, a book that helped to launch the Romantic Era, was published by these two:
Wordsworth and Coleridge
Shelley and Wordsworth
Jack and Diane
Coleridge and Keats
41
This device is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones, such as in STRAW-ber-ry.
Dactyl
Trochee
Spondee
Brontosaurus
42
This type of poem is a mournful lament usually written in remembrance of a lost one.
Villanelle
Elegy
Ode
Sestina
43
This device is a metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables, such as TISK-TASK.
Spondee
Triceratops
Dactyl
Trochee
44
John Milton is best known for
His poem, “Paradise Lost”, written in the Renaissance
His poem “The Raven”, written in the Renaissance
His poem, “The Raven”, written in the Romantic Era
His poem, “Paradise Lost”, written in the Romantic Era
45
Which of the following forms of poetry does NOT employ a regular meter?
Free verse
Sonnet
Blank verse
Villanelle
46
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools” uses:
Simile
Metonymy
Antithesis
Allusion
47
Time period characterized by self-reflexivity and radical experimentation of poetic forms:
Romantic
Enlightenment
Modernism
Renaissance
48
All of the following poets are famous for writing sonnets EXCEPT
John Donne
William Shakespeare
Edgar Allan Poe
Francesco Petrarch
49
The repetition of phrases that have similar grammatical structures is called
Metonymy
Rhetoric
Parallel Structure
Motif
50
A sonnet consists of…
14 lines of iambic pentameter
10 lines of iambic pentameter
10 lines of dactylic hexameter
14 lines of dactylic hexameter
