AP English Vocab Quiz

Word choice

• Dialect

• Diction

• Pun

• Slang

extreme exaggeration

• Proverb

• Foil

• Hyperbole

• Hubris

brief speech wherein a character turns from the person being addressed in order to speak directly to the audience

• Soliloquy

• Aside

• Monologue

• Pun

repetition of vowel sounds

• Anapest

• Alliteration

• Amputation

• Assonance

metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by three accented syllables

• Couplet

• Ballad Meter

• Dactyl

• Iamb

basic unit / measurement of verse

• inch

• foot

• yard

• mile

pithy saying that expresses a basic truth or practical precept

• Proverb

• Enjambment

• End Rhyme

• Couplet

author tells us what every character feels/does - “God” tells the story

• Third Person point of view

• Birds Eye point of view

• Omniscient point of view

• First Person point of view

point of highest intensity; turning point of a story

• Colloquial

• Sarcasm

• Exposition

• Climax

A flaw in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy that brings the protagonist to ruin or sorrow

• Hubris

• Invective

• Tragic Flaw

• Verbal Irony