AP Literature Prep

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

A rhetorical question:

A kind of comedy that relies on mocking subjects in a ludicrous way (i.e. eating babies)

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

A Petrarchan Sonnet is broken into what parts?

The following is an example of _______: “Break, break, break,/On thy cold grey stones, O Sea!?

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

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

1984 would best be described as what type of satire?

What helps you know the author's tone of a piece?

17th Cent. Genre of poetry characterized by short lyric poems with a theme of "carpe diem."

Understatement is the opposite of

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

a recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story (element is threaded throughout)

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

2+ ideas, places, characters, or actions are placed side-by -side to develop comp. & contrast

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

On average you should spend how much time on each of the Multiple Choice Sections (55 Q's)?

A type of poem which extols the virtues and an ideal view of country life.

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

Quality of being intentionally unclear. (Those modernists liked to use this!)

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

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:

On average you should spend how much time on each of the three essays?

A Shakespearean Sonnet has what rhyme scheme?

Replaces the name of something with a word closely associated with it ("lend me your ears")

“Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier" is a....

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

An anapest is... ("Twas the Night Before Christmas and All Through the House"):

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

How now brown cow is an example of:

True or False: You'll do your best, but ultimately you're not defined by your grades or scores.

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

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

antecedent means... (a lot of the MC questions ask you about identifying the antecedent)

Scansion

"Get your butt over here" is an example of

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

A six line stanza is a:

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

AP readers are looking for what in your Q1/Q2 introductions?

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

"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so."

The Victorian Era (1837-1901) could be deemed the Age of ________