AP Lit Videos Poetry Part II Quiz

AP Lit Videos Poetry Part II Quiz

By LORI JANICKI

What is a Metaphor? | OSU Guide to Literary Terms | Oregon State University

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By bringing two unrelated elements into a comparison, metaphors can add creativity and clarity to writing and everyday speech, allowing us to see things from different angles and in a new light. Take this sentence by H.P. Lovecraft, which uses vivid imagery to_________ “We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

• suggest the limits of our knowledge

• compare our isolation

• convince the reader that we are doomed

• compare our current environmental concerns to a black hole

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An extended metaphor is one that goes on for several sentences

• True

• False

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If a metaphor is extended across an entire piece of writing, it’s called a

• controlled

  metaphor

• supersonic

  metaphor

• sussy baka

  metaphor

• controlling metaphor

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In the novel Invisible Man, for example, Ralph Ellison extends the metaphor of __________ to describe how black men and women are often overlooked in American society, pushed to the margins and into the shadows. 

• oppression

• slavery

• invisibility

• suffering

What is Juxtaposition? || Definition and Examples | | College of Liberal Arts | Oregon State University

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Juxta: that’s Latin for “______.” And pose…as in, to _____.

• under

  put

• beside

  put

• across from

  place

• next to

  place

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With juxtaposition, the connection has to do with...

• opposite meaning

• proximity and immediacy

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To notice when things are in juxtaposition is to notice things side by side, with the outcome being that specific qualities are _________

• metaphors

• rhyming

  couplets

• contrasted

• emphasized

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The effect of juxtaposition is that we notice comparisons...in scale, or in value, in concepts, or situations, or in literary form.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

In Natasha Trethewey’s poem, “Myth,” a poem about the loss of a mother, she writes a 12 line poem in three stanzas. And then: she juxtaposes all that by flipping it around. Line 12 becomes line 1, line 11 becomes line 2, and so on. The effect of this is

• it brings our attention to the recurrence of the poet's grief

• it shows how little she cared for her mother

• It emphasizes the feelings of abandonment

• It speaks to the guilt felt by the narrator for surviving

What is Imagery? || Oregon State Guide to Literary Terms | Oregon State University

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imagery is vivid language designed to appeal to _______

• sound

• sight

• smell

• all 5 senses

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imagery often does more than simply present sensory impressions of the world: it also conveys ________ of a character or narrator towards a given subject

• development

• affiliation

• emotion

• tone or attitude

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She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with new spring life.  The delicious breath of rain was in the air.  In the street below a peddler was crying his wares.  The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves. Imagery appeals to which senses? Check all that apply.

• sight

• smell

• sound

• taste

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By concentrating on what Mrs. Mallard experiences at this moment-- quivering trees, singing birds, and smells of rain –Chopin’s narrator allows readers to understand the complex way in which Mrs. Mallard views her husband’s death—as both a tragic event and ________ in which the spring imagery conveys the freedom she imagines beyond the confines of her marriage. 

• a death of love

• a kindness

• a travesty

• a rebirth

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Chopin’s narrator shows us the worldview of her character and encourages us to interpret what this imagery means.  This difference is crucial for students interested using the term “imagery” in their literary essays.  Rather than writing that imagery is good or bad, vivid or dull, students should instead try to connect imagery to  

• the weather symbolism present

• the thoughts of a character, narrator, or speaker.

• the author's style

• juxtaposition

What is Hyperbole? || Oregon State Guide to Literary Terms | Oregon State University

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The term hyperbole has ancient origins. It combines one Greek term that means ____ and another that means ____ So hyperbole describes the sense of over-reaching, or grasping beyond what is necessary in order to describe a certain feeling, an experience, or response.

• over

  cast

• reach

  over

• grasp

  beyond

• too much

  facts

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“her eyes in heaven / Would through the airy region stream so bright / That birds would sing and think it were not night.” (2.1.19-22)

What feature is being exaggerated with hyperbole and for what effect?

• The heavens compared to birds emphasizes the beauty of nature

• Juliet's eyes compared to stars

  emphasizes feeling overwhelmed with incredible attraction

• Romeo's love compared to an airy stream emphasizes the ebb and flow of love

• Juliet's beauty compared to the night sky emphasizes the brevity of beauty

What is a Motif? || Oregon State Guide to Literary Terms | | College of Liberal Arts | Oregon State University

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Once you notice a motif, the larger question is _______?

• WHY

• WHERE

• HOW

• Juxtaposition

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A motif can highlight something about a character, to help us understand them better, or it can help to establish the mood of the story.

Often, motifs reinforce the ________of the story. motifs can be the breadcrumbs that lead us to discover the _____ or support and reinforce it.

Finally, motifs can evoke other moments in the story to remind us of the connection between scenes.

• tone

• climax

• theme

• language

Multiple Choice

In the story, "Sonny's Blues," the motif of ____________ reinforces the themes of suffering and salvation, imprisonment and freedom. The swinging subway light is not a direct symbol for salvation in this passage, but the ongoing pattern of contrasts reinforces those bigger ideas and asks us to trace them throughout the story

• public and private spaces

• open and closed windows

• darkness and light

• right and wrong

Multiple Choice

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,”the whole story is filled with decay—the nitre on the walls, the skeletons filling the catacombs. Death and decay is a common motif in gothic stories like this, and it definitely ups the creepiness factor. It’s a key part of setting the mood and feel of the story, as well as reinforcing the theme of madness, or mental and ______ ______

• tooth decay

• moral decay

• societal decay

• radioactive decay

"What is Meter in Poetry?" || Oregon State Guide to English Literary Terms | Oregon State University

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Iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl

these are all...

• types of poems

• terms of endearment

• types of metrical feet

• sound devices

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The next step, of course, is to determine why that matters—how meter can be used not only to read a poem or song but also to _________ it.

• dance to

• rhyme scheme

• interpret

• label

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Once you have identified the dominant metrical form in a given poem, look for moments where the meter breaks from that form.  These moments are often good places to build out an interpretation, because when we spot them, we can ask WHY the meter breaks at that place and what that ______ _______ might be conveying. 

• iambic pentameter

• sonic dissonance

• pattern break

• alternate meter

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Consider the start of John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost,” which tells the story of Adam and Eve’s exile from the garden of Eden. While the poem is written in iambic pentameter, see if you can spot the moment where the meter breaks in these opening lines:“Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit

Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast

Brought Death into the World, and all our woe”

• and all our woe

• disobedience

• fruit

• taste