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AP Lit Review #1
AP Lit Review #1
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A smattering of everything literary
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zeugma means...
"[They] covered themselves with dust and glory" Mark Twain
one verb governs two meanings
the very end
2
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
William Blake
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lord Byron
3
The Greek who warned Icarus about flying too close to the sun..
the Minotaur
Icarus
Zues
Daedalus
4
natural break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line
conceit
enjambment
ceasura
catharsis
5
Nemesis can also refer to an archenemy
False
True
6
Peripetia means
an emotional release by the audience
to go about thongs the wrong way
the reversal of fortune
the fatal flaw of the hero
7
"To me alone there came a thought of grief ..Wordsworth OR "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."- Tolkei
anastrophe or inversion
alliteration
hyperbole
metaphor
8
An Allegory..
intentionally exaggerates
references something mythological or literary
uses fiction to focus on a subject using suggestive resemblance
9
CS Lewis'
Chronicles of Narnia
, Orwell's
Animal Farm
, Carroll's
Alice in Wonderland
are examples of:
anthropomorphism
synecdoche
personification
metonymy
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unctuous means..
unpleasantly and excessively suave
having foresight and imagination
unpredictable and layful
irreverently mocking
11
a peace offering or serving as a warning..
accusatory
conventional
ambivalent
cautionary
12
Norse heaven for souls of warriors who died in battle:
Avalon
Valhalla
Vanity
Gomorrah
13
used to emphasize a point by stating a negative to further affirm a positive, often incorporating double negatives
allusion
malapropism
synecdoche
litotes
14
the appearance of truth, quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable
connotation
versimillitude
whimsical
15
The god of the underworld is..
Jupiter
Pluto
Hades
Bacchus
16
In media res refers to a story that begins in the middle of the action
False
True
17
an understatement is the deliberate representation as lesser in magnitude than it actually is.
False
True
18
Dramatic irony is
only in poetry
when the resolution has been revealed
when there is irony in the dialogue
when the audience knows what the character does not
19
The Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans:
Prometheus
Orpheus
Phoenix
Hercules
20
unnecessary repetition
conssonance
tautology
alliteration
rubbish
21
Eros is the same as Amor and Cupid
False
True
22
A period in the 1920's when African-American achievements flourished in art, music and literature
Harlem Renaissance
Victorian Era
Golden Age
Transcendental Movement
23
Bacchanalian refers to
female warriors
the Roman god of thunder
being attacked in one's weak spot
characterized by drunken revelry; riotously drunken
24
Enjambment means:
the stopping of a line of poetry mid sentence
the breaking of a line of alliteration
getting into a tangled mess
the breaking of a syntactical unit without punctual pause
25
a noun phrase that identifies adjacent nouns or pronouns is called..
an adjective
an adverbial phrase
a prepositiponal phrase
an appositive phrase
26
denouement
is the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot
False
True
27
when a concept that is not possible or a divine character is introduced in order to resolve a conflict
in media res
de facto
carpe diem
ex deus machina
28
Which is an appositive phrase:
One of eleven brothers and sisters, Harriet...
Poppa was a quiet man who was very good..
Poppa, a good quiet man, spent the last hours...
Harriet is a girl with a very short temper..
29
fragility and vulnerability are closely related
True
False
30
The broken heart is a damaged piece of fine china
conceit
personification
allegory
31
sagacity is an abstract noun that means
emotional conflict between characters
a combination of mental discernment and practical common sense
certain to happen
a city that is described in a long tale
32
The Hero's Journey only applies to old literature.
False
True
33
an antihero who is a romanticized but wicked character
Titan
paradox
Byronic hero
Nemisis
34
genre of fiction in which elements of fantasy, myth, or the supernatural are included in a narrative that is realistic
Fantastical Storytelling
Magical Realism
Lacking Versimillitude
Non Fiction
35
an apostrophe as a literary device is used to..
can not start with "O/Oh"
address the main character as a foil
pause to add additional information
address an abstract concept or person
36
"a sweet sound" is an example of
paradox
symbol
synesthesia
personification
37
The Romantic era focused strongly on logic.
False
True
38
narrator whose accounts or events that seem to be faulty or non-trustworthy
foil
unreliable narrator
static character
39
Nemesis refers to fate that cannot be escaped.
True
False
40
addition of conjunctions for emphasis on certain parts of a statement or a sentence
polysyndeton
asyndeton
anthroomorphism
run-on sentence
41
free verse poetry does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
False
True
42
technique arranged as a story within a story
iambic pentameter
complicated
Wuthering Heights & Frankenstein
frame narrative
43
The painting "Barque of Dante" is an example of...
allusion
conformity
logic
metaphor
44
Which of the following are poetic forms:
pastoral, villan, epic, apostrophe
apostrophe, epic, villanelle, ode
ballad, epic, appositive, pastoral
ballad, villanelle, epic, ode
45
the poem "Metaphors"(Plath) did not contain a single metaphor
True
False
46
The god of the underworld is Dionysus.
True
False
47
character who embodies a single characteristic and who does not grow in the course of the story
round character
unnecessary character
foil
flat character
48
What does synesthesia mean?
mixing sensory experiences
to be rid of someone
the way a poem is read aloud
a synonym for amnesia
49
unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter is called:
Shakespearean
free verse
nonsense
blank verse
50
the unintentional misuse of a word when one is confused with one that sounds similar
malapropism
juxtaposition
malnutrition
paradox
51
Hermes and Mercury are the messenger gods.
True
False
52
a rhyme scheme is:
noted using numbers
ordered pattern of rhymes
only applies to end rhymes in a poem
skips every other line in a poem
53
William Blake wrote the poem "Ozymandias"
False
True
54
Connotation is..
opposite of the denotation
the literal meaning of the word
a comparison of dissimilar entities
a concrete image
55
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a lyrical ballad
True
False
56
a misheard song lyric or poetic line that results in a humorous outcome
oral metaphor
mondegreen
metonymy
malapropism
57
literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies
satire
epic poem
sarcasm
sonnet
58
"they were honking their horns incestuously all night" (incessantly)is a malapropism
False
True
59
Which literary periods are in the correct order?
Romantic, Enlightenment, Victorian
Enlightenment, Victorian, Romantic
Romantic, Victorian, Enlightenment
Renaissance, Enlightmenment. Romantic
60
character that is the opposite of a character and is used to highlight the traits of the other character.
clown or fool
doppelganger
nemesis
foil
