AP Literature Terms

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

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

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

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

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

Understatement is the opposite of

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

How now brown cow is an example of:

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

An anapest is:

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

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

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

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

Quality of being intentionally unclear.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

"Get your butt over here" is an example of

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

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

Which of the following works had a parallel plot?

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

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

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

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

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

"He was not averse to taking a drink" and "she was no saint" are examples of

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

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

masculine rhyme is

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

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

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

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:

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

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

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

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

Background information in a literary work.

A rhetorical question:

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

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

antecedent

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

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

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

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

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

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

Scansion

A six line stanza is a:

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