AP Literature: POETRY and LITERARY TERMS EXAM - First Semester Lax

AP Literature: POETRY AND LITERARY TERMS EXAM - First Semester Lax

Match these definitions with their correct terms. Write down the NUMBERS next to each correct term.

1. The place at which a distinct turn of thought occurs in a poem; often occurs in a Petrarchan sonnet

2. Stylistic device in which successive words (stressed syllables) begin with the same initial sound or letter

3. Form of satire that adapts the elevated heroic style of the classical epic poem to a trivial subject

4. Phrase, expression, or idea that has been overused to the point of losing its intended force or novelty

5. Speech made by one person speaking his or her thoughts alone and aloud, speaking the truth

6. Repetition of consonant sounds in a short sequence of words; can be anywhere within the word, or at the end

7. Branch of philosophy studying sensory values; closely associated with the philosophy of art

8. Term describing different styles of poetry not written using strict meter or rhyme

9. Line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the "chorus" of a song

10. Metrical poetry, as opposed to prose, or lines of poetry grouped together, whether metrical or not

11. A narrative representation that conveys a meaning other than the literal meaning

12. A meter in poetry; refers to a line consisting of five feet that each have one unstressed and one stressed syllable

13. The end of a work of literature or drama that usually brings closure to the work; opposite of prologue

14. Arrangement or construction of sentences (refers to length, type of sentence, etc.)

15. Group of eight lines of poetry, especially the first eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet

16. Type of poetry that has a regular meter, but no rhyme (iambic pentameter is its most common meter in English)

17. Element of meter in poetry characterized by a long syllable followed by two short syllables

18. Term to denote an audible pause that breaks up a line or verse

19. Refers to the time, location, weather, atmosphere, etc. in which a story takes place

20. Cleansing if emotions; any extreme change in emotion that results in a renewal, restoration and revitalization

21. Type of writing that uses humor to criticize an event, individual or group in order to bring about change

22. Parts that are related through a reversal of structures to display inverted parallelism; creates balance within a text

23. Poem or song of or about lovers separating at dawn

24. Society or imaginary place characterized by human misery, deprivation, terror, disease, oppression, etc.

25. Poetic form that Joyce experimented with; has 19 lines and 2 rhyme sounds, 5 tercets and 1 concluding quatrain

26. A writer's distinctive choices in vocabulary / word choice

27. Device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments that are to come later in the story

28. When characters are unaware of situations that the audience realizes

29. Word, or occasionally, a grouping of words that imitate/s the sound being described

30. Object, character, figure, sound, or color that represents more than just itself

31. Genre of poetry that retells on a grand scale in a continuous narrative the life & works of a hero

32. The dictionary definition of a word (i.e. its literal meaning)

33. Point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series in a narrative that leads to a turning point

34. Fictional character that represents the opposition against which the hero must contend

35. Situation that appears to be apparently true; a contradiction or situation which defies intuition

36. Refers to a poem of mourning; a reflection on sorrow or the death of someone (name also refers to its meter)

37. Style of writing which describes an individual's point of view by giving the character's thought processes

38. Novel which traces the development & growth of a protagonist (usually) from childhood to maturity

39. When a speaker or writer directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea as if they were there

40. Comparison that is developed and occurs frequently in or throughout a work

41. State or quality of something that has the appearance of truth or reality; the degree to which it is “true to life”

42. Breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line, not by punctuation

43. Ordinary or disappointing occurrence that follows a period of excitement; results in unexpected change of tone

44. Usually a narrative poem, in a song; with foreshortened, alternating 4 & 3 stress lines with a refrain

45. Literary reference to the five senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste); words that create a picture

46. Form of festive courtly entertainment which flourished in 16th and early 17th century Europe

47. Extended comparison used in metaphysical poetry that governs the entire poem or poetic passage

48. State of opposition, disagreement or incompatibility with oneself or outside forces; can be internal or external

49. Refers to a sound that is harsh and unpleasant-sounding; the opposite of euphony

50. Also called analepsis, it recounts events that happened prior to the story's primary sequence of events

51. An idealized but flawed character so named by this Romantic poet from his love for Lady Caroline Lamb

52. Form of Japanese poetry in 3 lines, usually arranged as 5, 7, and 5 syllables

53. Exaggeration or overstatement used to create a strong impression; not meant to be taken literally

54. Rhyme that ends on a single stressed syllable; often used contrastively with "feminine” and "double rhyme"

55. Omission of conjunctions from constructions in which they would normally be used (see Dickinson)

56. Poetic line which coincides with the end of the grammatical unit, usually the sentence; a line without enjambment

57. Deliberate avoidance of assonance; similar to cacophony and the opposite of euphony

58. Subjective cultural and/or emotional coloration in addition to the dictionary meaning of any specific word

59. The use of words to convey something other than the opposite or expected literal meaning of the words

60. Pair of lines of verse that traditionally rhyme, although not all do

61. Stylistic device that refers to an object or circumstance that has occurred or existed in an external context

62. Describes flowing and aesthetically pleasing speech

63. Repetition of vowel sounds within words

64. Five-line poem popularized by Edward Lear; usually with an "A-A-B-B-A" rhyme scheme

65. Recurring element in a story or poem that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes

66. Form of stately and elaborate lyrical verse usually written in honor of some object, person, or idea

67. Poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and logical structure

68. Generic, idealized model of a person, object or concept from which similar instances are derived or patterned

69. Basic unit of measurement in verse to describe the underlying rhythm of a poem

70. When words or situations can be interpreted in more than one way (distinct from vagueness)

71. Broad idea in a story, or a message or lesson conveyed by a work; usually about life, society or human nature

72. Metrical foot that consists of 2 short (unstressed) syllables followed by 1 long (stressed) syllable

73. Essentially Romantic; depended on features such as mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, and haunted houses

74. Literary and poetic form consisting of 6 metrical feet per line; was the standard Greek epic meter

75. Use of clauses or phrases without the use of coordinating or subordinating conjunctions (see Dickinson)

76. Indirect comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects; usually implied

77. Exaggerated self pride or self-confidence (overbearing pride), often resulting in fatal retribution

78. In poetry, refers to a group of 17th century poets whose verse appeals to the reader’s intellect rather than emotions

79. Figure of speech that gives non-humans and objects human traits and qualities

80. Describes the linguistic sound patterns of a verse; the basic rhythmic structure of a verse

81. Figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms

82. Beat or meter in poetry or song arising from the number of syllables in each line

83. Verse or group of lines grouped together because they share a rhyme scheme or a fixed number of lines

84. The rendering and ordering of the events and actions of a story; the “arrangement of incidents” (Aristotle)

85. Figure of speech in which the speaker either strengthens or weakens the emphasis of a claim by denying its opposite

86. Movement that originated in late 18th century; stressed strong emotion & the subjective imagination

87. Anachronistic representation of something as existing before its proper or historical time (see Dickinson)

88. Poetry that doesn’t attempt to tell a story, but is of a more personal nature instead; often singable and rhymable

89. Art or technique of persuasion through the use of oral language

90. The central figure or main character of a story

91. Metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable

92. Group of six lines of poetry, especially the last six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet

93. Deliberate double meaning of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious

94. Attitude or mood of the poet to his/her subject or characters

95. Literary technique where two or more senses are combined

96. Metrical foot consisting of two long or stressed syllables only

97. Comparison of two unlike things, typically marked by use of "like" or "as"

98. Meter of three metrical feet per line

99. Poem (or a stanza within a poem) that consists of four lines

100. Repetition of identical or similar terminal sounds in two or more different words

Allegory -

Aesthetics -

Alexandrine -

Alliteration -

Allusion -

Ambiguity –

Anapest -

Antagonist -

Anticlimax -

Apostrophe -

Archetype -

Asyndeton -

Assonance -

Aubade -

Ballad -

Bildungsroman -

Blank verse -

Byronic Hero -

Cacophony -

Caesura –

Catharsis –

Chiasmus –

Cliché -

Climax -

Conceit -

Conflict -

Connotation -

Consonance -

Couplet -

Dactyl -

Denotation –

Diction -

Dissonance -

Dramatic Irony -

Dystopia -

Elegy -

End-stopped rhyme –

Enjambment -

Epic -

Epilogue -

Euphony -

Extended Metaphor -

Flashback -

Foot –

Foreshadowing -

Free Verse -

Gothic -

Haiku -

Hexameter -

Hubris -

Hyperbole –

Iambic pentameter -

Imagery -

Limerick -

Litote -

Lyric Poetry -

Masculine Rhyme -

Masque -

Metaphor -

Metaphysical –

Meter -

Mock Epic -

Motif -

Octave -

Ode –

Onomatopoeia -

Oxymoron -

Paradox -

Parataxis -

Personification -

Plot -

Prolepsis –

Protagonist -

Pun -

Quatrain –

Refrain -

Rhetoric -

Rhyme

Rhythm –

Romanticism -

Satire -

Sestet -

Setting -

Simile -

Soliloquy -

Sonnet -

Spondee -

Stanza –

Stream of consciousness –

Symbol –

Synesthesia –

Syntax –

Theme -

Tone –

Trimeter -

Trochee -

Trope -

Verbal Irony -

Verisimilitude –

Verse –

Villanelle -

Volta -

TERMS Name: ____________________________________

_____ Allegory _____ Aesthetics _____ Alliteration _____ Allusion

_____ Ambiguity _____ Anapest _____ Antagonist _____ Anti-climax

_____ Apostrophe _____ Archetype _____ Asyndeton _____ Assonance

_____ Aubade _____ Ballad _____ Bildungsroman _____ Blank Verse

_____ Byronic Hero _____ Cacophony _____ Caesura _____ Catharsis

_____ Chiasmus _____ Cliché _____ Climax _____ Conceit

_____ Conflict _____ Connotation _____ Consonance _____ Couplet

_____ Dactyl _____ Denotation _____ Diction _____ Dissonance

_____ Dramatic Irony _____ Dystopia _____ Elegy _____ End-stopped Rhyme

_____ Enjambment _____ Epic _____ Epilogue _____ Euphony

_____ Extended Metaphor _____ Flashback _____ Foot _____ Foreshadowing

_____ Free Verse _____ Gothic _____ Haiku _____ Hexameter

_____ Hubris _____ Hyperbole _____ Iambic pentameter _____ Imagery

_____ Limerick _____ Litote _____ Lyric Poetry _____ Masculine Rhyme

_____ Masque _____ Metaphor _____ Metaphysical _____ Meter

_____ Mock Epic _____ Motif _____ Octave _____ Ode

_____ Onomatopoeia _____ Oxymoron _____ Paradox _____ Parataxis

_____ Personification _____ Plot _____ Prolepsis _____ Protagonist

_____ Pun _____ Quatrain _____ Refrain _____ Rhetoric

_____ Rhyme _____ Rhythm _____ Romanticism _____ Satire

_____ Sestet _____ Setting _____ Simile _____ Soliloquy

_____ Sonnet _____ Spondee _____ Stanza _____ Stream of Consciousness

_____ Symbol _____ Synesthesia _____ Syntax _____ Theme

_____ Tone _____ Trimeter _____ Trochee _____ Verbal Irony

_____ Verisimilitude _____ Verse _____ Villanelle _____ Volta

TERMS Name: ____________________________________

_____ Verse _____ Anti-climax _____ Aesthetics _____ Haiku

_____ Protagonist _____ Masculine Rhyme _____ Rhyme _____ Symbol

_____ Alliteration _____ Blank verse _____ Epilogue _____ Aubade

_____ Onomatopoeia _____ Chiasmus _____ Ambiguity _____ Hubris

_____ Personification _____ Cacophony _____ Villanelle _____ Trimeter

_____ Antagonist _____ Cliché _____ Connotation _____ Trochee

_____ Free Verse _____ Litote _____ Apostrophe _____ Theme

_____ Consonance _____ Volta _____ Flashback _____ Dactyl

_____ Dramatic Irony _____ Motif _____ Pun _____ Rhetoric

_____ Denotation _____ Assonance _____ Hyperbole _____ Imagery

_____ Archetype _____ Stream of consciousness _____ Foot _____ Lyric Poetry

_____ Ode _____ Epic _____ Iambic pentameter _____ Refrain

_____ Paradox _____ Oxymoron _____ Conceit _____ Spondee

_____ Tone _____ Allegory _____ End-stopped rhyme _____ Plot

_____ Prolepsis _____ Diction _____ Syntax _____ Conflict

_____ Simile _____ Setting _____ Meter _____ Climax

_____ Metaphor _____ Limerick _____ Sonnet _____ Anapest

_____ Satire _____ Synesthesia _____ Verisimilitude _____ Metaphysical

_____ Verbal Irony _____ Sestet _____ Soliloquy _____ Dissonance

_____ Stanza _____ Octave _____ Rhythm _____ Mock Epic

_____ Romanticism _____ Dystopia _____ Quatrain _____ Masque

_____ Euphony _____ Elegy _____ Ballad _____ Hexameter

_____ Asyndeton _____ Couplet _____ Gothic _____ Bildungsroman

_____ Byronic Hero _____ Extended metaphor _____ Allusion _____ Catharsis

_____ Parataxis _____ Caesura _____ Enjambment _____ Foreshadowing