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Part 2 AP Lit Vocabulary Self-Awareness Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which term means "a pause near the middle of the line"?

a)

caesura

b)

anaphora

c)

iamb

d)

trochee

2.

Which term means "the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses"?

a)

anaphora

b)

apostrophe

c)

assonance

d)

cacophony

3.

Which term means "the use of similar sounds, esp. vowels, in two or more words, as in 'mellow wedding bells'"?

a)

assonance

b)

consonance

c)

motif

d)

enjambment

4.

Which term means "a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, such as 'describe'"?

a)

iamb

b)

trochee

c)

bildungsroman

d)

oxymoron

5.

Which term means "a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable, such as 'garden'"?

a)

trochee

b)

foil

c)

iamb

d)

meter

6.

Which term means "a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died"?

a)

eulogy

b)

elegy

c)

allegory

d)

anecdote

7.

Which term means "a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist"?

a)

bildungsroman

b)

allegory

c)

catharsis

d)

foil

8.

What is this an example of?


Great, or good, or kind, or fair,

I will ne’er the more despair;

a)

consonance

b)

apostrophe

c)

cacophony

d)

anaphora

9.

Robert Louis Stevenson's characters Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are examples of what?

a)

foil

b)

bildungsroman

c)

allegory

d)

paradox

10.

Which poetic device does T.S. Eliot use in this excerpt from "The Waste Land"?


April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

a)

enjambment

b)

apostrophe

c)

caesura

d)

motif