AP Literature Terms

The literary movement that takes realism to the extreme and depicts man as an animal in society

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

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

A literary movement that stressed "art for art's sake" and defied conventions was _____________

"Sofie was no ordinary Jesus" is an example of a _______________.

The rhetorical appeal that would inspire feelings of pity, sympathy, or sorrow would be ____.

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

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

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

The purpose of the rhetorical appeal of ethos is to __________________.

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

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

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

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

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

The words, downtown, earthquake, and doorstop are all _________________

Transparent language, lack of sentimentality, psychology, and objectivity.

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

Hamlet is speaking in ________ when he says "I must be cruel only to be kind."

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

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

Understatement is the opposite of

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

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

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

Background information in a literary work.

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

A six line stanza is a:

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

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

masculine rhyme is

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

"Goodbye Chris Hemsworth, I bid you adieu, as I tiptoe through the early morning dew"

One might write a/an ________________for Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, or your high school career.

Restraint, clarity, noble purpose, and objectivity are hallmarks of _________________.

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

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

Which of the following works had a parallel plot?

How now brown cow is an example of:

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

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

"Get your butt over here" is an example of

A _____________ is usually paired with an octave to make a Petrarchan sonnet.

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

Scansion

According to Aristotle, a tragic hero must have all of the following traits except _______.

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

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

A rhetorical question:

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:

Quality of being intentionally unclear.

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

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

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

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

Which of the following works point out the compromised position of women?

antecedent

An anapest is: