AP Literature Review Terms

Romantics rejected rational thought because they believed

• Logical thought was not possible

• Science was not fully developed

• No respected writers were rationalists

• Imagination and emotion yielded higher truths

Which of these is not a characteristic of Gothic Romanticism?

• Interest in the supernatural
• People driven to madness
• Interest in psychology
• Interest in industrial advancements

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Walt Whitman would be most likely to write about

• A famous politician
• An ordinary worker
• A complicated factory
• A Shakespearean sonnet

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A likely subject for an Emily Dickinson poem might be

• Jogging
• The nature of the universe
• Death
• Friendship

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Which of these events had the biggest effect on the Modernists?

• World War I
• The Industrial Revolution
• The Thirteenth Amendment
• The Grand Narrative

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. 

• Aphorism
• Anaphora
• Euphemism
• Juxtaposition

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Speech is silver, but silence is gold.

• Allegory
• Asyndeton
• Polysyndeton
• Antithesis

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Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs. (Othello)

• Jargon
• Understatement
• Inversion
• Euphemism

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I like to shop. I like to eat. I like to sleep. 

• Anaphora
• Inversion
• Antimetabole
• Allegory

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"To stop too fearful, and too faint to go."

• Compound sentence
• Chiasmus
• Syllogism
• Euphony

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