Duplicate of AP Literature Terms

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

A quotation placed at the beginning of a novel or other document.

"Little strokes/Fell great oaks" is an example of an:

A story that operates on more than one level and usually teaches a moral lesson is a:

A love poem set at dawn which bids farewell to the beloved.

A six line stanza is a:

Quality of being intentionally unclear.

"Get your butt over here" is an example of

Highly structured poem: six stanzas-five tercets, a quatrain and repeating first and third line

The metrical foot that echoes the sound of life-a heartbeat.

A rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter is a _______________.

Words spoken by an author intended to be heard by the audience but not other characters:

Understatement is the opposite of

Genre of poetry characterized by short lyric poems by courtiers with a theme of "carpe diem."

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:

Scansion

"You can take the girl out of the country but you cannot take the country out of the girl" is a

Like the downward smoke, the slender stream/Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem

"Be with me Beauty, for the fire is dying." Keats

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

A rhetorical question:

antecedent

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

Background information in a literary work.

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

An anapest is:

A soliloquy in a Shakespearean play is an example of a/an:

Moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge

A type of poem which extols the virtues of and ideal place or time.

masculine rhyme is

Poetry characterized by highly complex, philosophical ideas, paradox and extended metaphors.

The word "faithful" mimics the beat of what metrical foot?

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”

"He was not averse to taking a drink" and "s:he was no saint" are examples of

figure of speech- replaces the name of something with a word closely associated with it

Ridiculing writing , criticizing the corruption or foolishness of society, intended to improve.

How now brown cow is an example of:

"When she saw the monster she was putrified" contains an example of:

According to Aristotle, the release of emotions that the audience of a tragedy experiences.

A kind of comedy that relies on exaggerated or improbable situations or sexual innuendo.

Short non-narrative poem characterized by personal feelings and musicality such as an ode.

Half a league, half a league/Half a league onward contains what kind of metric foot?

A simple narrative poem often with dialogue, written in quatrains, with a rhyme scheme of abcd

Genre is which characters experience reality differently from what we term the objective world.