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WorksheetsAP Lit Terms, Pt. 1
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which of the following uses ADAGE?
a)
“My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.”
b)
You are the bees knees
c)
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
d)
Every soul is a star
2.
Which of the following is an example of ASSONANCE?
a)
Mammals named Sam are clammy
b)
Deborah fell in the koi pond
c)
I used a wheel to peel the eel.
d)
Caren called the contractor
3.
Which of these characters is an ANTIHERO?
a)
Macbeth
b)
Mr. Darcy
c)
Katniss Everdeen
d)
Edna Pontellier
4.
Which one of the following is an allusion?
a)
The building was as beautiful as a palace
b)
The bird flew high
c)
He's a womanizer.
d)
This place is like the Garden of Eden.
5.
Which one is the antagonist?
a)
Harry Potter from the Harry Potter series.
b)
Elizabeth from Pride and Prejudice
c)
Woody from Toy Story
d)
Lady Bracknell from The Importance of Being Earnest
6.
An “allegory” is...
a)
A story with a double meaning
b)
the intervention of nature or the supernatural in a story.
c)
the repetition of the initial sounds of the words in a line of poetry
d)
a pause marking a rhythmic point of division in a line of poetry
7.
Which is an example of an analogy?
a)
I am dying of shame
b)
My brother was boiling mad
c)
You are as annoying as nails on a chalkboard
d)
Her voice is music to his ears
8.
Complete the analogy “Tire is to car, as wheel is to _______”
a)
Spokes
b)
Bicycle
c)
Barn
d)
Flat
9.
Which is an example of blank verse?
a)
But, woe is me, you are so sick of late, So far from cheer and from your former state
b)
Come slowly, Eden Lips unused to thee
c)
I do not like them, Sam-I-am. I do not like green eggs and ham
d)
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
10.
What is a bard?
a)
a poem about boats
b)
a poet that tells romances stories
c)
a modern poem that is told with music accompaniment
d)
a poet, in olden times,who told heroic stories to musical accompaniment
11.
Which of the following describes a bildungsroman?
a)
A novel based around a character’s development throughout his or her journey
b)
A biography of someone’s life
c)
A tragic play
d)
A Shakespearean era poem
12.
Which of the following can be called a Ballad?
a)
A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter
b)
A poem that doesn’t rhyme or have a regular meter
c)
A poem that tells a story that is sung or recited.
d)
Verse without rhyme, that usually uses iambic pentameter.
13.
Which one of these sentences uses bombastic writing?
a)
It's a puppy!!!
b)
He is never going to become president now!!!
c)
Does Edna die at the end of this book?!?!?!
d)
This is the best stick of gum in the world!!!
14.
What is a Climax?
a)
High point, or turning point, of a story/play
b)
The beginning of the book
c)
The resolution of the book
d)
The conflict of the book
15.
What latin word means "Seize the Day"?
a)
Lape Frape
b)
Equus Deus
c)
Carpe Diem
d)
Corpus Hortus
16.
Which of these provides an example of a COLLOQUIALISM?
a)
It produces vibrations.
b)
There are 12 eggplants here.
c)
This is a cata-strophe.
d)
I've been bamboozled.
17.
Which of the following contains an epithet?
a)
I've gained 1000 pounds this summer!
b)
The cool, moist towel helped relieve my headache.
c)
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
d)
Some call me The Piano Man.
18.
What is a dirge?
a)
A upbeat song about the living.
b)
A typically slow song for the dead.
c)
A summary of the plot of a book.
d)
The antagonist of a book.
19.
What is an example of an end-stopped line?
a)
The warm air swirled / through the sky and into the night.
b)
Her yellow skin / glowed like the sun.
c)
Bright Star, would I were as stedfast as thou art— / Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night,
d)
I looked toward Olivia and said, / "Your mother has passed away."
20.
Which one of these includes a Euphemism?
a)
The company has decided to let you go.
b)
Hair wavy like a grass field.
c)
The tree trunks were elephant legs.
d)
Ty Rinne is a really cool guy.
21.
Which is an example of an epithet?
a)
the girl with red hair
b)
John Smith, ph. D
c)
Ivan the Terrible
d)
Henry V
22.
What is a poetic FOOT?
a)
A foot described using vivid imagery
b)
The basic rhythmic unit of a line in poetry
c)
Unrhymed iambic penta-meter
d)
A short verse, note, or quotation that appears at the beginning of a poem or section
23.
Which of these is an example of a limited omniscient narrator?
a)
They thought they were in love.
b)
The group of friends went to the store.
c)
She walked through the streets and wondered why the sky was blue.
d)
I thought I was going to pass this test.
24.
What is an "Ottava Rima"
a)
an Italian sonnet
b)
an eight-line rhyming stanza of a poem
c)
an un-rhymed poem
d)
the refrain of a ballad
25.
What is a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before?
a)
illogical
b)
missequenced
c)
non sequential
d)
non sequitur
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