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