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AP Lit Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What does Character Allegory mean?
a)
character traits
b)
Characters often represent various ideal qualities
c)
symbolism or underlying meaning
d)
When a characters  says something different from what is meant
2.
What does Synecdoche mean?
a)
The use of a part for the whole
b)
A thing, person, or idea that stands for something else
c)
Saying less that the situation warrants
d)
Essentially a metaphor that uses “like or as”
3.
What does Connotation mean?
a)
Voice of the writer
b)
Specific effects of word choice
c)
Emotional sense of a word or the cultural meaning associated with a word
d)
Mood is related to tone
4.
What is Organinc imagery?
a)
internal sense of being (well or ill)
b)
sense of movement
c)
what we can smell
d)
what we can hear
5.
What does Periodic mean?
a)
the repetition of the same word and words at the beginning of a series of phrases, clauses, or sentences
b)
conjunctions are omitted between words, phrases, or clause
c)
Most important idea comes at the end of sentence
d)
Sometimes called a balanced sentence
6.
What does Epistrophe mean?
a)
Most important idea comes at the end of sentence
b)
the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases or clauses
c)
Attitude of the speaker toward another character, place, and idea or a thing
d)
Voice is precise and relies on the language of science
7.
What does Polysyndeton mean?
a)
1 subject, 1 verb, modifiers, complements.
b)
two corresponding pairs ordered this way a/b/b/a
c)
Contains an independent clause and a (dependent) subordinate clause
d)
the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clauses
8.
Where can the position be located in a sentence?
a)
Where the key idea is located
b)
In the speed of the text
c)
In the tone of the narrator
d)
Always at the end
9.
Epistolary Novel ?
a)
Presents readers with an apparent perfect (utopian) society where human life is somehow diminished
b)
Prose fiction longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel
c)
Consists of letter written by one or more characters
d)
An episodic novel (sting of episodes or adventures)
10.
Apostrophe?
a)
Characters often represent various ideal qualities
b)
Addressing something (or someone) nonliving or incapable of response as if it could hear and respond
c)
Discrepancy between what is perceived and what is real
d)
When reader knows something a character does not know
11.
What is an Understatement?
a)
Saying less that the situation warrants
b)
saying more than the situation warrants
c)
Statement under the staement
d)
The use of a part for the whole
12.
Denotation?
a)
Specific effects of word choice
b)
Voice of the writer
c)
Saying less that the situation warrants
d)
Dictionary or precise meaning of the word
13.
What style of voice is Ornate?
a)
Voice is uncommitted, without judgment
b)
Voice is perhaps pretentious, flowery, or ostentatious
c)
Voice evokes emotion
d)
Voice is preachy, insistent
14.
What is related to tone?
a)
mood
b)
style
c)
sentences
d)
tactile
15.
What is gustatory?
a)
What we can touch
b)
What we can smell
c)
What we can taste
d)
What we can hear
16.
What is the repetition found in an Anaphora?
a)
the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases or clauses
b)
the repetition of the same word and words at the beginning of a series of phrases, clauses, or sentences
c)
conjunctions are omitted between words, phrases, or clause
d)
the use of conjunction between each word, phrase, or clauses
17.
Compound Sentence?
a)
1 subject, 1 verb, modifiers, complements.
b)
2 independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction
c)
Contains an independent clause and a (dependent) subordinate clause
d)
Contains two independent clauses and a dependent (subordinate) clause
18.
Cadence?
a)
The main idea or most important point in a sentence
b)
Makes an emphatic or emotion filled statement
c)
Rhythm or “music” of a sentence that comes through parallel elements and repetition
d)
important idea in a sentence
19.
Bildungsroman novel?
a)
Protagonist is child whose experiences teach him or her about the realities of the adult world
b)
Consists of letter written by one or more characters
c)
Characterized by dark, mysterious setting; has supernatural elements, especially ghost
d)
Story is immersed in historical events; characters interact with history
20.
Utopian Novel?
a)
Concerned with the effect of societal institutions and social conditions on humanity
b)
The author details the social customs of an era and/or the social behaviors of a particular social group
c)
Narrator tells a story like a camcorder would, simply revealing the sights and sounds it perceives
d)
Presents an ideal (perfect) society from typical social problems