WorksheetsPart 2 AP Lit Vocabulary Self-Awareness Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which term means "a pause near the middle of the line"?
caesura
anaphora
iamb
trochee
Which term means "the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses"?
anaphora
apostrophe
assonance
cacophony
Which term means "the use of similar sounds, esp. vowels, in two or more words, as in 'mellow wedding bells'"?
assonance
consonance
motif
enjambment
Which term means "a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, such as 'describe'"?
iamb
trochee
bildungsroman
oxymoron
Which term means "a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable, such as 'garden'"?
trochee
foil
iamb
meter
Which term means "a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died"?
eulogy
elegy
allegory
anecdote
Which term means "a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist"?
bildungsroman
allegory
catharsis
foil
What is this an example of?
Great, or good, or kind, or fair,
I will ne’er the more despair;
consonance
apostrophe
cacophony
anaphora
Robert Louis Stevenson's characters Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are examples of what?
foil
bildungsroman
allegory
paradox
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.
enjambment
apostrophe
caesura
motif
