AP Lit Review - 2024

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

rhyming couplet

Question 2

Which is not personification?

Accepted Answer

The parrot told her to eat the cracker.

Question 3

“Oh! Stars and Clouds and Winds you are all around to mock me…” (Frankenstein)

Accepted Answer

apostrophe

Question 4

What's a refrain?

Accepted Answer

a line of poetry that gets repeated

Question 5

"We need to hire more hands for the ranch."

Accepted Answer

synecdoche

Question 6

What is a metrical foot composed of unstressed, stressed, unstressed (u/u)?

Accepted Answer

amphibrach

Question 7

A type of poem that has alternating lines of 8 and 6 syllables.

Accepted Answer

ballad

Question 8

"A bicycle can't stand on its own because it's two-tired" is what literary device?

Accepted Answer

pun

Question 9

Which is not a format of a sonnet?

Accepted Answer

trochaic

Question 10

This does not allow a judge to give cruel and unusual punishment.

Accepted Answer

8th amendment

Question 11

What is Part I of the AP Literature Exam?

Accepted Answer

55 multiple choice questions

Question 12

We wish to live in peace. Our people deserve peace.

Accepted Answer

epistrophe

Question 13

A poem to the dead is called...

Accepted Answer

an elegy

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

oxymoron

Question 15

Mike struck a kooky streak of bad luck.

Accepted Answer

consonance

Question 16

What is an aubade?

Accepted Answer

a poem about the morning

Question 17

What score do you need on an AP Lit Exam to get credit at Stanford?

Accepted Answer

Stanford no longer accepts the AP Lit Exam

Question 18

The first foot of a line of iambic pentameter is a spondee.

Accepted Answer

initial exception

Question 19

"To err is human, to forgive divine"

Accepted Answer

caesura

Question 20

"The king is dead! Long live the king!"

Accepted Answer

epanalepsis

Question 21

The word gaunt is more offensive than the word thin, but they kind of mean the same thing.

Accepted Answer

connotation

Question 22

We are perplexed but not in despair; persecuted but not forsaken; cast down but not destroyed.

Accepted Answer

mesodiplosis

Question 23

Saying, "I'm letting you go" instead of "you're fired."

Accepted Answer

euphemism

Question 24

What are the three types of essays in the AP Literature exam?

Accepted Answer

poem analysis, prose analysis, open prompt

Question 25

When quoting a line of poetry, how do you indicate a new line?

Accepted Answer

/

Question 26

Unlike a market economy, a command economy uses...

Accepted Answer

more centralized planning in economic decision making

Question 27

The emotion felt by the reader...

Accepted Answer

mood

Question 28

Chris worked hard to raise her grade. What is the relationship of "Chris" to "her"?

Accepted Answer

antecedent

Question 29

A tercet is...

Accepted Answer

three poetic lines per stanza

Question 30

Which of the following is not an aspect of a villanelle?

Accepted Answer

three refrains

AP Lit Review - 2024

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AP Lit Review - 2024

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