Final AP Prep

What term is defined as the ideals nature and anti-tech?

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Sonnet

• Romanticism

Which term describes an incongruity or discrepancy between the implied and expected, which can be verbal, dramatic, or situational?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Metaphor

What is a parody?

• A work that imitates another work to ridicule or ironically comment on it

• An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• A figure of speech that implies a comparison

• A bitter criticism veiled under humorous exaggeration

What term describes the writer's attitude toward the audience or subject, which is implied or directly related?

• Tone

• Style

• Theme

• Mood

Which term is used to describe a reference to another piece of literature, a person, or an event in history, sports, television, etc.?

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Simile

What literary device involves a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Which term is used to describe a type of poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings?

• Lyric

• Ballad

• Ode

• Epic

What is the term for the analysis of a poem's meter through the division of verse into feet by indicating accents and counting syllables?

• Stanza

• Enjambment

• Scansion

• Connotation

Which literary device involves addressing someone absent, dead, or imaginary, as if they could respond?

• Apostrophe

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Synecdoche

What term is used to describe words that are pleasant and easy to articulate?

• Euphony

• Assonance

• Cacophony

• Metonymy