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AP Lit Terminology

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 41mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
This picture is an example of
a)
allegory
b)
abstract language
c)
anachronism
d)
alliteration
2.
The Wizard of Oz - The lion represents cowardice. The scarecrow stands for the agrarian past and the tin man the technological future.
a)
allusion
b)
allegory
c)
anachronism
3.
a)
acrostic
b)
allusion
c)
alliteration
d)
assonance
4.
Chocolate is my Achilles' heel
a)
allusion
b)
allegory
c)
ambiguity
5.
having more than one meaning, whether intentional or unintentional
a)
ambivalence
b)
ambiguity
c)
absurd
6.

Repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words

a)

Alliteration

b)

Synechdoche

c)

Rhyme

d)

AAAA Format

7.

Poem which expresses sorrow over a death of someone for whom the poet cared, or on another solemn theme

a)

Sonnet

b)

Didactic

c)

Denotation

d)

Elegy

8.

Describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line

a)

Free Verse

b)

Enjambment

c)

Iambic Pentameter

d)

Refrain

9.

The atmosphere suggested by the structure and style of the poem

a)

Mood

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Metaphor

d)

Tone

10.

Statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements

a)

Paradox

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Parallelism

d)

Simile

11.

Symbolism; the part signifies the whole, or the whole the part (Ex: all hands on deck)

a)

Style

b)

Theme

c)

Synecdoche

d)

Metonymy

12.

Saying less than one means, for effect

a)

Tone

b)

Synechdoche

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Understatement

13.

Writer's attitude toward the audience or subject, implied or related directly

a)

Persona

b)

Personification

c)

Irony

d)

Tone

14.
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”
15.
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
16.
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)
17.
What is related to tone?
a)
mood
b)
style
c)
sentences
d)
tactile
18.
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
19.
Two lines of poetry 
a)
Stanza
b)
Quatrain
c)
Couplet
d)
Iambic pentameter
20.
Four lines of poetry 
a)
Couplet
b)
Quatrain
c)
Stanza
d)
Metaphor
21.
The "paragraphs" of poetry
a)
Stanza
b)
Rhyme scheme
c)
Sonnet
d)
Quatrain
22.
The pattern of rhyming in a poem. Mark it up using letters of the alphabet
a)
Iambic pentameter
b)
Rhyme scheme
c)
Alliteration
d)
Rhythm
23.
What is the rhyme scheme in the following lines from "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe?

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
a)
ABABC
b)
AABBB
c)
ABABA
d)
AAABB
24.
Five "feet" or ten syllables. Always sound like your heartbeat. William Shakespeare often wrote in this style.
a)
Rhyme scheme
b)
Alliteration
c)
Iambic pentameter
d)
Assonance
25.
A poem that ALWAYS has 14 lines and follows a particular, formal rhyme scheme. The most formal of all poetry.
a)
Sonnet
b)
Free verse
c)
Blank verse
d)
Epic
26.
A really, really, really long poem written about a serious topic or important person.
a)
Ode
b)
Elegy
c)
Epic
d)
Sonnet
27.
A poem that is meant to tell a story.
a)
Narrative
b)
Ode
c)
Elegy
d)
Sonnet
28.
A serious poem written in honor of someone or some thing.
a)
Elegy
b)
Ode
c)
Sonnet
d)
Free verse
29.
A poem written without any rhyme scheme or particular pattern. 
a)
Free verse
b)
Blank verse
c)
Sonnet
d)
Ode
30.
A poem with no specific rhyme scheme but usually in iambic pentameter/
a)
Free verse
b)
Sonnet
c)
Blank verse
d)
Ode
31.

A word or thing that describes an object without being actually applicable to the object.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Scansion

d)

Hyperbole

32.

A comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as."

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Scansion

d)

Hyperbole

33.

Giving human-like characteristics to non-human objects.

a)

Imagery

b)

Personification

c)

Irony

d)

Paradox

34.

Words that sound like their action (ex: pop, ring, buzz)

a)

Alliteration

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Irony

d)

Imagery

35.

Events that happen that are the opposite of what one would expect.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Paradox

c)

Irony

d)

Setting

36.

A figure of speech where two things that would appear to be opposite are actually connected

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Paradox

c)

Irony

d)

Imagery

37.

An extreme exaggeration.

a)

Simile

b)

Imagery

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Paradox

38.

“Hey! Guess who the new Newton of our school is?”

a)

hyperbole

b)

alliteration

c)

allusion

d)

rhetorical question

39.

Life is like a race. The one who keeps running wins the race, and the one who stops to catch a breath loses.

a)

allusion

b)

analogy

c)

alliteration

d)

hyperbole

40.

Macbeth: “Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand?

Come, let me clutch thee!

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”

a)

allusion

b)

theme

c)

pun

d)

apostrophe

41.

The wicked stepmother in Charles Perrault’s Cinderella

a)

paradox

b)

irony

c)

theme

d)

archetype character

42.
a)

juxtaposition

b)

epiphany

c)

conceit

d)

oxymoron

43.

What is the comparison of these two characters called?

a)

foil

b)

irony

c)

metonymy

d)

couplet

44.

Like father, like son.

a)

foil

b)

parallelism

c)

metonymy

d)

analogy

45.

What type of bee can't make up its mind? A maybe.

a)

litotes

b)

conceit

c)

pun

d)

irony

46.

The bird said, “I don’t sing because I am happy, I am happy because I sing.”

a)

paradox

b)

chiasmus

c)

imagery

d)

conceit

47.
a)

metonymy

b)

synecdoche

c)

retell

d)

theme

48.

What you see is what you get.

a)

chiasmus

b)

parallelism

c)

synecdoche

d)

hyperbole

49.

using concrete object to represent an abstract idea

a)

symbolism

b)

irony

c)

personification

d)

imagery

50.

Characterization is defined as

a)

An important decision a character makes

b)

The arrangement of event in the story

c)

The order people show up in the story

d)

The words, thoughts, and actions of the characters

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