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AP Lit Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Love is an ideal thing; marriage is a real thing.

a)

Apostrophe

b)

Anapest

c)

Antithesis

d)

Anecdote

2.

A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

a)

Metonymy

b)

Elegy

c)

Sestet

d)

Ode

3.

A poem marked by serious, respectful, exalted feeling toward the subject...

a)

Feminine rhyme

b)

Octave

c)

Sonnet

d)

Ode

4.

You don't really die...it's more like you're translated into a better language and preserved in the heavenly library. Dying = being translated

a)

Enjambment

b)

Deux Ex Machina

c)

Epigram

d)

Conceit

5.

Who wrote that death was like being translated?

a)

John Donne

b)

Shakespeare

c)

John Keats

d)

James Baldwin

6.

April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

a)

Internal Rhyme

b)

Heroic Couplets

c)

Enjambment

d)

Denouement

7.

A word like elephant with a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables is...

El-uh-phant

/UU

a)

Iambic

b)

Anapestic

c)

Dactylic

d)

Trochaic

8.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

a)

Metonymy

b)

Synecdoche

c)

Euphony

d)

Cacophony

9.

14 line poem that has quatrains and a rhyming couplet

a)

Shakespearean sonnet

b)

Petrarchan sonnet

c)

Litotes

d)

Hubris

10.

Excessive pride that often leads to the downfall of a tragic hero

a)

Deux Ex Machina

b)

Catharsis

c)

Hubris

d)

In media res

11.

What's the setting of Frankenstein?

a)

1600s

b)

1700s

c)

1800s

d)

1900s

12.

What is the setting of 1984?

a)

Scotland

b)

Oceania

c)

Burma

d)

America

13.

Unstressed Syllable/Stressed Syllable

U/

a)

Trochaic

b)

Anapestic

c)

Dactylic

d)

Iambic

14.

Stole fire from the gods to give to humans...punished by having his liver eaten each day.

a)

Odysseus

b)

Prometheus

c)

Oedipus

d)

Jocasta

15.

Death thou shalt die

a)

Logos

b)

Paradox

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Pathos