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AP Lit Poetry Essay

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Poetry not written in traditional meter or rhyme

a)

heroic couplet

b)

free verse

c)

blank verse

d)

terza rhyma

2.

a strong pause within a line of verse (usually marked by punctuation)

a)

apostrophe

b)

couplet

c)

enjambment

d)

caesura

3.

a run-on line of poetry where it carries over into the next line because there is no punctuation

a)

enjambment

b)

end-stopped line

c)

caesura

d)

couplet

4.

I’m nobody! || Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there’s a pair of us || – don’t tell!

They’d banish || – you know!

a)

caesura

b)

enjambment

5.

“April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain."

a)

caesura

b)

enjambment

6.

change in focus, point of view, time, or tone in a poem

a)

shift or turn

b)

stanza

c)

rhythm

d)

caesura

7.

stanza

a)

a group of words or a phrase in a poem

b)

a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in poetry

c)

a pattern of rhyme in a poem

d)

repeating words, phrases, or lines for emphasis

8.

emotional or figurative value of words that goes beyond dictionary definition

a)

connotation

b)

meter

c)

speaker

d)

denotation

9.
the author places a person, concept, place, idea, or theme parallel to another to highlight the contrast between the two and compare them
a)
pace
b)
paradox
c)
syntax
d)
juxtaposition
10.
a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature
a)
metaphor
b)
diction
c)
allusion
d)
symbolism
11.
basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word
a)
connotation
b)
malapropism
c)
theme
d)
denotation
12.

Chocolate is my Achilles' heel

a)

allusion

b)

simile

c)

alliteration

d)

synecdoche

13.

a metrical foot consisting of an unaccented (unstressed) syllable followed by an accented (stressed) one

a)

foot

b)

iamb

c)

octave

d)

meter

14.

The pen is mightier than the sword--

a)

rhyme

b)

metonymy

c)

meter

d)

refrain

15.

the wind whistled through the forest:

a)

stanza

b)

internal rhyme

c)

assonance

d)

personification

16.

pattern of beats in poetry

a)

meter

b)

foot

c)

octave

d)

iamb

17.

An eight line stanza

a)

foot

b)

meter

c)

sestet

d)

octave

18.

The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words: "What would the world be, once bereft.Of wet and wildness?"(Gerald Manley Hopkins, "Inversnaid")

a)

Alliteration

b)

Anapest

c)

Antithesis

d)

Accent

19.

The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds: "Thou still unravished bride of quietness,/ Thou foster child of silence and slow time" ("Ode to a Grecian Urn," John Keats).

a)

Alexandrine

b)

Assonance

c)

Antithesis

d)

Anapest

20.

Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays this way.

a)

Free Verse

b)

Apostrophe

c)

Blank Verse

d)

Assonance

21.

a special kind of metaphor that gives human attributes to a nonhuman object, such as an animal, object, or concept

a)

personfication

b)

simile

c)

conceit

d)

apostrophe

22.

Occurs when a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond

a)

apostrophe

b)

conceit

c)

paradox

d)

metonomy

23.

The use of the part for the whole

a)

Synecdoche

b)

Metonymy

c)

Personiciation

d)

Simile

24.

The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant; for example, using blood for "life"

a)

metonymy

b)

synedoche

c)

personification

d)

paradox

25.

how the speaker feels about the subject or another character in a poem

a)

tone

b)

mood

c)

sensory imagery

d)

caesura

26.

The feelings evoked in the reader because of the author's use of diction and imagery

a)

tone

b)

mood

c)

symbolism

d)

setting

27.

14 line long lyric poems with regular meter (usually iambic pentameter) ABAB CDCD EFEFGG

a)

Shakespearean/Elizabethan sonnet

b)

Petrachan/Italian sonnet

c)

ballad

d)

apostrophe

28.

What is a lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.

a)

apostrophe

b)

sonnet

c)

ode

d)

rhyme

29.
Which of the following defines PENTAMETER?
a)
A line of poetry containing five syllables
b)
A work of literature that divides into five sections
c)
A story consisting of five conflicts
d)
A verse with five poetic feet per line
30.
What is a four-line poem or a four-line unit of a longer poem referred to as? 
a)
Limerick
b)
Couplet
c)
Quatrain
d)
Haiku
31.

"Victoria vrooms in the van very vivaciously."

a)

assonance

b)

metaphor

c)

alliteration

d)

hyperbole

32.

personification

a)

I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

b)

The sun is like a light bulb.

c)

The Sun smiled at us.

d)

A wild wind blew on Wednesday.

33.

Pattern of end rhymes in a stanza

a)

alliteration

b)

meter

c)

couplet

d)

rhyme scheme

34.

the voice talking to the reader in a poem

a)

speaker

b)

tone

c)

prose

d)

poet

35.

A six-line stanza

a)

tetrameter

b)

sestet

c)

quatrain

d)

octave

36.

The Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet has

a)

one cinquain, one x-line stanza

b)

three quatrains, one couplet

c)

one octave, one sestet

d)

two septets

37.

a word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated at times throughout a poem or song, especially at the end of a stanza

a)

near or slant rhyme

b)

end rhyme

c)

rhyme scheme

d)

refrain

38.

the author places a person, concept, place, idea, or theme parallel to another to highlight the CONTRAST between the two to compare them.

a)

foot

b)

pentameter

c)

trochee

d)

juxtaposition

39.
rhyme within one line of poetry
a)
slant rhyme
b)
perfect rhyme
c)
eye rhyme
d)
internal rhyme
40.

a metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables

a)

iamb

b)

foot

c)

hand

d)

trochee

41.

a line made up of four feet

a)

tetrameter

b)

quatrain

c)

pentameter

d)

stanza

42.

brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, movement

a)

enjambment

b)

elegy

c)

assonance

d)

allusion

43.

metrical foot consisting of an accented (stressed) syllable followed by an unaccented (unstressed) syllable

a)

trochee

b)

iamb

c)

meter

d)

foot

44.

a comparison developed over a series of lines rather than just within one line

a)

consonance

b)

extended metaphor

c)

assonance

d)

apostrophe

45.

shared consonants or resemblance in sound

a)

assonance

b)

consonance

c)

alliteration

d)

denotation