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AP English Literature Semester Review #review
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1
Identify the form: "An old silent pond / A frog jumps into the pond / Splash! Silence again."
Dramatic Monologue
Ballad
Lyric
Sonnet
Haiku
Villanelle
2
The Victorian Age was characterized by:
Economic equality and political unrest
Rapid change and strict social mores
Radical liberalism and progressive unionization
A shift from a monarchy to a republic
3
The word
stationery
most nearly means:
Motionless
Writing Materials
Related to transportation
Of fixed duration
4
The sketches below represent what Marian High School fixture?
Brad Pitt
Me
Mr. Hooley
Mr. duToit
Mr. Watson
Mr. Holloway
5
What device is Willy Wonka using below?
Farce
Verbal Irony
Incongruity
Parody
6
Which English Premier League team currently sits in first place in the premier league table?
Tottenham
Liverpool
Chelsea
Manchester United
Manchester City
Arsenal
7
Who wrote the following lines? "Round the decay of that colossal wreck / The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Sylvia Plath
W.H. Auden
Percy Shelley
William Shakespeare
8
Identify the error: Administrators at St. Joseph High are less cruel than Marian High School.
Dangling Modifier
Illogical Comparison
The writer should use "fewer" instead of "less"
Parallel Construction Error
9
Which of these would be the best description for Oscar Wilde's character Lady Bracknell?
A Benevolent Dictator
The embodiment of moral altruism.
The personification of Victorian earnestness
A Domineering Widow
10
Which of these types of people would you expect to adopt a didactic tone?
Babies
Students
Professors
Student-athletes
11
Identify the character below:
Mina Harker
Van Helsing
Dracula
Quincey Morris
Frankenstein's Monster
Jonathan Harker
12
Which of the following categories does Bram Stoker's
Dracula
not embody?
Romanticism
Horror
Gothicism
Science Fiction
Epistolary Fiction
Aestheticism
13
Name the story: "Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt the way to the unknown nourishment now."
The Metamorphosis
"The New Colossus"
"Ozymandias"
The Importance of Being Earnest
Dracula
A Modest Proposal
14
Who recently said, "Live fast, die young, and leave behind a beautiful corpse"? Though she did not coin this line.
Lydia Bogol
Addison Hanley
Mary Kirsch
Marce Rodriguez
JJ Gruber
David Donndelinger
15
Identify the figure below:
Ugandan Knuckles
Baby Gronk
Turkish Quandale Dingle
Mick Keefer
Quandale Dingle
The Leader
16
What is the difference between a symbol and an allegory?
How allegories are more common and easier to write.
One deals with virtue and the other with vice.
The number of ideas or characters they can stand for.
How one is figurative, while the other is not
17
From what language do the words
patio, breeze, cockroach,
and
cargo
descend?
French
Spanish
Gaelic
German
English
Portugese
18
Shakespeare frequently used blank verse in his plays, which meant:
Verse that rhymed but did not have a regular meter
Unrhymed iambic tetrameter
Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Verse that did not rhyme or have a regular meter
19
What is the source of all great satire?
A feeling of resignment towards the status quo
A sense of humor used to distract one from reality
A direct approach to a problem that lacks subtlety
A dissatisfaction with some aspect of society
20
Identify the poem containing the following line: "Look on my works ye mighty and despair!"
"Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley
"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
"God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by W.B. Yeats
21
Name the devices: "We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot honor this ground beyond its current state."
Parallel Structure, allusion
Inverted Syntax, chiasmus
Onomatopoeia, verbal irony
Caricature, simile
22
Count Dracula, when studied with respect to European folklore and prior vampire tales, is best described as what?
As a far-reaching amalgam of various sources
As an anomaly unlike any other vampiric characters
As fully original in his supernatural abilities
As the progenitor for parasitical behavior among aristocrats
23
The image below suggests what about Gregor Samsa?
His self-conception is that he is purely human.
His identity is both fluid and ambiguous.
His transformation operates primarily on a literal level.
He suffers from split personality syndrome.
24
The picture below qualifies as:
Satirical
Impressionistic
Realistic
Romantic
25
How would we describe a clever, concise statement that says something meaningful about life?
As satirical
As idiomatic
As ironic
As oxymoronic
As euphemistic
As epigrammatic
26
Stoker and many romantics like Mary Shelley believed that which of the following often corrupts human morality?
Emotion
Nature
Youth
Death
Civilization
Intuition
27
The phrase "awfully good" would be an example of:
Paradox
Simile
Connotation
Literalism
Metaphor
Oxymoron
28
A poet uses this device to address someone directly:
Asyndeton
Dramatic Monologue
Anaphora
Apostrophe
29
Why am I obsessed with making my students learn literary terms?
I'm a sadist
Who even cares?
It's my job.
I'm just plain weird.
30
The line "my childhood, a prison of insecurity, never fully left me," embodies what device?
Personification
Ethos
Metaphor
Alliteration
31
Starting a speech with "Webster's dictionary defines" or a story with "It was a dark and stormy night" exemplifies what?
Allegory
Anticlimax
Clichè
Prologue
Synecdoche
Epilogue
32
From what language do the words lucid, malevolent, and sinister descend?
Italian
Greek
German
Latin
33
Which of the following are characteristics of a great thesis statement?
It should have some intricacy and originality of thought
It should always address some social justice issue
It should address two to three major rhetorical purposes
It should use broad language such as "meaning" or "author's purpose"
34
What do the following titles have in common?
Animal Farm
, The Colbert Report, and
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
.
They are all famous novellas.
They are all satires.
The all convey politically conservative ideals.
They are all allegories.
35
Identify the device here: "No one can make you feel inferior without your permission."
Parody
Appeal to Authority
Hyperbole
Epigram
Aphorism
Sarcasm
36
From what language do the following words descend?
Diminuendo, stanza, sonnet, latte.
Russian
Greek
Latin
French
Portugese
Italian
37
What makes a character archetypal?
Its ability to generate moral ambiguity.
Its ability to overcome narrative adversity.
Its ability to convey anguish and despair.
Its presence in classical literature.
Its ability to defy classification.
The frequency with which it is modeled.
38
Which of the following abilities does Dracula NOT possess?
Dominion over certain animals
The ability to speak any language without practice
Control over the weather
Superhuman Strength
Qualified immortality
Hypnotism
39
The image below, as used in
Dracula
, can be described as:
A motif
Literary naturalism
A cathartic moment
A climax
A theme
Antithesis
40
An author who uses
ethos
wants to establish her own:
Callousness
Emotional gravitas
Spiritual superiority
Credibility
Indifference
Sentimentality
41
What do the following works have in common?
Animal Farm, Pilgrim's Progress, The Wizard of Oz
?
They all started out as plays.
They were all written in the 19th century.
They all met with a poor critical review at first.
They are all allegories.
42
An elegy is best described as:
A fourteen line poem comprised of one octave and one sestet
A poem of musical, emotional quality
A formal poem meditating on death or another solemn theme
A narrative poem with a rhyme scheme of abab
43
From what language do the following words descend? Atlas, Bible, Phobia
Greek
Japanese
German
Russian
French
Old English
44
Identify the target of the satire below:
Big pharmaceutical companies that rush clinical trials
The anti-vaccination movement and its selfishness
Elitism in academic communities
Close-minded scientists
45
The phrase "faded into velvety blackness" exemplifies what literary term?
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Connotation
Assonance
46
Swift's descriptions of the poor in
A Modest Proposal
, especially in animal terms, serve to:
Show that the speaker and Swift are of the same opinions
Underscore the humane treatment of the breeders in his plan.
Reveal Swift's disdain for paupers and invalids.
Emulate Upper-class attitudes towards the poor.
47
The science fiction and horror genres both arose out of what movement?
The Reformation
The Classical Era
Modernism
The Dark Ages
Romanticism
The Renaissance
48
Kafka's
The Metamorphosis
is marked by purposeful use of:
Ambiguity
Realism
Appeal to Authority
Romanticism
49
Which devices are used in the following sentence: "The buzzing bee flew away."
Alliteration and paradox
Alliteration and personification
Alliteration and anaphora
Alliteration and onomatopoeia
50
Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus" envisions the United States government as what?
A slumbering political giant ready to wake up and become a world power
A formidable land of social Darwinism in which only the strong survive
A welcoming haven valuing the dignity inherent in even the poorest people
A conquering, imperialistic force spreading its enlightenment to others
51
What exactly is a rizzler?
Collin VanPoppel
Kyle Kiefer
Aiden Fruth
Mr. Watson
Marce Rodriguez
Ryan McGuire
52
Which rhetorical technique draws on expert opinions to prove a point?
Appeal to Authority
Ad hominem argument
Logos
Non Sequitur
53
Who said, "Gen Z feels a lot of madness, and this is how we process it"?
Lydia Bogol
Ryan McGuire
Lil Nas X
Catie Macieczyk
Kyle Rittenhouse
Peter McIndoe
54
Identify the hair style pictured below.
Low Taper Fade
Graduated bob
Hard part
The Bowl
High and Tight
The Skullet
55
Shakespearean sonnets are written in what meter:
Iambic Trimeter
Iambic Pentameter
Iambic Tetrameter
Dactylic Hexameter
56
If you recognize the pictures below, you are suffering from...
Narcissistic Rage
Brain rot
Sonic the hedgehog
Schizophrenia
Persecutory Delusion
Compartmentalization
57
Lyric Poetry is best described as:
Subjective and emotional
Objective and empirical
Violent and impassioned
Sympathetic and understanding
58
Which of the following works, poets, or places is NOT alluded to in Stoker's
Dracula
?
The Bible
Paradise Lost
Arabian Nights
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
59
How did Victoria writers like Bram Stoker
subtly convey their anxieties towards foreigners and female voluptuousness?
Through obvious patterns in the text
Through sublimation of risqué subjects
Through clear overtones
Through characters like Jonathan speaking explicitly about such subjects
60
Select the literary device here: "I must be cruel only to be kind."
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Verbal Irony
Paradox
Oxymoron
Assonance
