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AP Lit Exam Review
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John Milton is best known for
His poem, “Paradise Lost”, written in the Renaissance
His poem, “The Raven”, written in the Romantic Era
His poem, “Paradise Lost”, written in the Romantic Era
His poem “The Raven”, written in the Renaissance
2
A word or group of words placed beside a noun to supplement its meaning is a….
Litotes
Clause
Appositive
Syntax
3
Which of the following forms of poetry does NOT employ a regular meter?
Sonnet
Blank verse
Free verse
Villanelle
4
Blank verse refers to…
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Rhyming iambic pentameter
Unrhymed free verse
Rhyming free verse
5
A sonnet consists of…
14 lines of iambic pentameter
10 lines of dactylic hexameter
10 lines of iambic pentameter
14 lines of dactylic hexameter
6
What is a caesura in poetry?
A strong pause within a line of verse
A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
The use of words to imitate sounds they describe
A figure of speech where a part is substituted for a whole
7
A combination of words pleasant to the ear are called:
Figurative
Cacophony
Euphony
Heroic
8
Shakespearean sonnet always ends in a…
Quatrain
Five line stanza
Six line stanza
couplet
9
Time period characterized by self-reflexivity and radical experimentation of poetic forms:
Modernism
Enlightenment
Romantic
Renaissance
10
This device is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones, such as in STRAW-ber-ry.
Dactyl
Brontosaurus
Trochee
Spondee
11
The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences is
Antithesis
Juxtaposition
Anaphora
Syntax
12
The turning point in a Petrarchan sonnet happens in the:
Sestet
Second Octet
First Octet
Couplet
13
This type of meter/rhythm was commonly used by William Shakespeare:
Spondaic hexameter
Iambic pentameter
Trochaic trimeter
Hamletian Mixometer
14
The line “O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done...” in Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” contains...
Allegory
Apostrophe
Aubade
Allusion
15
The turning point or resolution in a Shakespearean sonnet happens in the:
First quatrain
Second quatrain
Couplet
Third quatrain
16
Dactyls and spondees are terms that refer to a poem’s…
Rhythm
Theme
Structure
Rhyme
17
John Donne commonly wrote his poems about
Democracy
Death and marriage
Love, sexuality, and religion
Friendship and camaraderie
18
What is “a pair of rhymed lines that may or may not create a separate stanza in a poem”?
Tercet
Coltrane
Couplet
Quatrain
19
What is a conceit in poetry?
An image
An egotistical poet
An extended simile
An extended metaphor
20
What is enjambment?
Lines of poetry about jam
Lines of poetry that use internal rhyme
Lines of poetry with line breaks in the middle of sentences
Lines of poetry that end on vowels
21
The repetition of phrases that have similar grammatical structures is called
Rhetoric
Motif
Parallel Structure
Metonymy
22
Which of the following poetic terms has to do with the repetition of vowel sounds?
Anaphora
Assonance
Aubade
Consonance
23
Which of the following poets did not belong in the Romantic Era?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Wordsworth
Edgar Allan Poe
Dylan Thomas
24
A metaphor is a:
repeated consonant sound
Comparison using like or as
repeated vowel sound
figurative language of comparison without a comparative term
25
The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line:
Elision
Elegy
Ellipses
Elicit
26
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of epic poetry?
Subjects centered around religious and mythological themes
Only exist in Ancient cultures
Originated from oral storytelling
Primary epics were centered around a specific nation/culture
27
Placing things side by side for purpose of comparison is called…..
Juxtaposition
Euphony
Paradox
Euphemism
28
Which of the following is NOT a common theme in Romantic-era poetry?
Abandonment to emotion
A search for universal truth
Beauty in nature
Emphasis on the individual and originality
29
This poetic form is characterized by unrhymed iambic pentameter and flexibility in structure.
Converse
Free Verse
Blank Verse
Long Verse
30
What is the narrator’s main struggle in John Donne’s poem “The Flea”?
He has issues with his identity
He feels he is insignificant in the world
A girl will not have sex with him
He fears insects
31
This device is a metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables, such as TISK-TASK.
Triceratops
Dactyl
Spondee
Trochee
32
The line “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life/ Now wears his crown" from
Hamlet
uses:
Metonymy
Anapest
Simile
Hyperbole
33
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools” uses:
Metonymy
Simile
Allusion
Antithesis
34
A combination of words unpleasant to the ear are called:
Heroic
Cacophony
Figurative
Euphony
35
When a speaker breaks from addressing one party and addresses a 3rd party, this is:
Enjambment
Caesura
Apostrophe
Allusion
36
All of the following poets are famous for writing sonnets EXCEPT
Francesco Petrarch
Edgar Allan Poe
John Donne
William Shakespeare
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All of the following are poetic terms used in describing rhythm except…
Spondee
Trochee
Dactyl
Assonance
