AP Literature POETRY FINAL
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SECTION I : Literary Terms – match the terms to the correct definitions. Write down only the
LETTERS of your responses on the lines provided.
_____ 1. The representation through language of sense experience
_____ 2. When some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the entire experience
_____ 3. An explicit comparison that is made between two things essentially unlike
_____ 4. Saying less than one means, or saying something with less force than the occasion warrants
_____ 5. Exaggeration that is used in the service of truth
_____ 6. The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound
_____ 7. A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature, history, or events
_____ 8. A situation in which there is incongruity between what actually happens and what was expected
_____ 9. When what is meant is the opposite of what is being said
_____ 10. When the character does not know what the reader / audience knows 9there is a discrepancy)
_____ 11. When human attributes are given to an animal, object, or concept
_____ 12. A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements
_____ 13. The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or words
_____ 14. The repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds of accented syllables or words
_____ 15. A sonnet consisting of this rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg
_____ 16. A narrative or description having meanings beneath the surface one
_____ 17. A combination of dissimilar images… yoking together heterogeneous ideas by one image
_____ 18. A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form
_____ 19. What a word suggests beyond its basic definition; the overtones of meaning
_____ 20. The basic dictionary definition of a word
_____ 21. Unrimed iambic pentameter
_____ 22. The process of measuring verse; of marking accented and unaccented syllables; dividing lines in feet
_____ 23. A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually the rhyme scheme) is repeated in the poem
_____ 24. Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme
_____ 25. An eight-line stanza
_____ 26. A six-line stanza
_____ 27. Bitter or cutting speech; intended to give pain or wound
_____ 28. Kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vices intended to bring about reform
_____ 29. When something (an object, person, situation, or action) means more than what it actually is
_____ 30. The writer or speaker’s attitude towards his/her subject
_____ 31. The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or words
_____ 32. The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words
_____ 33. A rime in which one or both of the rime-words occur within the line
_____ 34. Rimes that occur at the ends of lines
_____ 35. A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, usually at some fixed position in a poem
_____ 36. Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound
_____ 37. Regularized rhythm; an arrangement of language in which the accents occur at equal intervals
_____ 38. A metrical line containing five feet
_____ 39. The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse
_____ 40. Metrical language; the opposite of prose
_____ 41. Non-metrical language; the opposite of verse
_____ 42. When two contradictory words or phrases combine in a single expression to be contradictorily true
_____ 43. Double or even multiple meaning
_____ 44. This consists of vowel sounds preceded or followed by consonant sounds
_____ 45. A figurative device by which a future event is presumed already to have occurred
_____ 46. Lines that can be read both ways, both up and down, with what comes before and after for sense
_____ 47. Co-ordination of clauses without conjunctions
_____ 48. When a poet omits conjunctions, articles, and/or pronouns
_____ 49. A figurative device where a word or words are left out
_____ 50. When a poet addresses a person or concept as if they are present and could actually respond
SECTION I: TERMS:
A. Hyperbole
B. Ballad
C. Tone
D. Prolepsis
E. Satire
F. Blank verse
G. Allusion
H. Personification
I. Verbal irony
J. Imagery
K. Consonance
L. Prose
M. Verse
N. Refrain
O. Alliteration
P. Simile
Q. Situational irony
R. Scansion
S. End rime
T. Pentameter
U. Onomatopoeia
V. Assonance
W. Internal rime
X. Rhythm
Y. Oxymoron
Z. Metonymy
AA. Paradox
BB. Shakespearean sonnet
CC. Dramatic irony
DD. Litote
EE. Metaphysical conceit
FF. Connotation
GG. Octave
HH. Rime
II. Apostrophe
JJ. Sestet
KK. Couplet
LL. Foot
MM. Syllable
NN. Asyndeton
OO. Stanza
PP. Sarcasm
QQ. Ambiguity
RR. Meter
SS. Symbol
TT. Allegory
UU. Denotation
VV. Syntactic doubling
WW. Ellipsis
XX. Parataxis
PART II : MULTIPLE CHOICE
Answer questions on a separate sheet of paper. Write down only the letters of each correct response.
1. A unique trait of Emily Dickinson’s poetry is that
A. the first letter of each line can be used to spell out a secret message
B. her poems can be read both forwards and backwards
C. all her poems contain the same number of words
D. every word is capitalized
E. her poems glow in the dark
2. In “The Wasteland”, the first section “The Burial of the Dead” T. Eliot writes, “Winter kept us warm,
covering / Earth in forgetful snow…”. The word “warm” is a(n)
A. metaphor
B. paradox
C. allusion
D. symbol
E. pun
3. In “Death, be Not Proud”, the poet ironically gives death more power by saying that the only way to get
rid of Death is to:
A. die
B. go to Heaven
C. live forever
D. kill it
E. not be afraid of Death
4. What is an apostrophe?
A. a comparison between two seemingly unlike objects
B. a reference to something in history
C. an understatement
D. the addressing of a person no present
E. overstatement
5. What devices are considered when looking at connotation?
A. imagery
B. metaphor
C. symbolism
D. sound devices
E. all of the above
6. Which of the following themes are present in T. S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”?
A. I get knocked down, but I get up again
B. Cities are utopian
C. Prostitutes are eternally happy
D. Everyone exists, but on-one is really alive
E. Life is linear and ends with death
7. The flea in John Donne’s “The Flea” is an example of which of the following:
A. metonymy
B. irony
C. simile
D. parataxis
E. metaphysical conceit
8. Which of the following lines in John Donne’s “Death, be not Proud” is an example of paradox?
A. “thou art slave to fate”
B.
C.
D.
E.
“death, thou shalt die”
“mighty and dreadful for thou art not so”
“and soonest our best men with thee do go”
“and better than thy stroke, why swellest thou then?”
9. “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell fits in with which philosophy?
A. carpe diem
B. laissez faire
C. never, never give up
D. que sera sera
E. the grass is always greener on the other side
10. Which of the following is a characteristic of e.e. cummings’ poetry?
A. structured stanzas
B. the sonnet form
C. metaphysical conceits
D. arbitrary capitalization
E. lack of parentheses
11. Post modernism is characterized by
A. a combination of disparate styles
B. questioning authoritative meaning
C. rejecting traditional styles
D. a disjointed flow
E. all of the above
12. Which of the following is an example of prolepsis?
A. “I offered him a crumb”
B. “As all the heavens were a bell”
C. “I heard a fly buzz when I died”
D. “A stumbling buzz”
E. “I felt a funeral in my brain”
13. In Billy Collins’ poem “Thesaurus”, to what does he compare a thesauraus?
A. a family vacation
B. an ant colony
C. a family reunion
D. a retirement home
E. a church service
14. To what does this line from T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” allude? “Good night ladies, good night, sweet
ladies, good night, good night..”
A. Dante’s Inferno
B. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night opening funeral scene
C. Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream forest dreamlike sequence
D. Shakespeare’s Hamlet before Ophelia’s death by water
E. Milton’s Paradise Lost
15. What does the color yellow symbolize in “The Wasteland”?
A. the bright summer sun in nature
B. happiness
C. cowardice
D. moral decay
E. life
16. Which term below is used to describe another way of saying something other than the ordinary way?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
imagery
metaphor
figure of speech
simile
apostrophe
17. Who could “He” be in Dickinson’s “He Fumbles at your Spirit”?
A. Death
B. A lover
C. God
D. Poetry
E. All of the above
18. In “The Wasteland”, T.S. Eliot uses the seasons to show
A. the beauty of nature
B. his love of industrialization
C. the regeneration of life and death
D. different types of weather
E. all of the above
19. John Donne is characterized as belonging to which of the following schools of poetry?
A. Romanticism
B. Post modernism
C. Metaphysical
D. Victorian
E. Modern
20. Modernism is synonymous with which period in history?
A. Word War II
B. The Enlightenment
C. Post Revolutionary War
D. Last week
E. The Edwardian age
21. In “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, what is the significance of the line: “men in shirt-sleeves,
leaning out of windows”?
A. they are sexual temptresses
B. they are observing life without participating in it
C. they are poverty-stricken
D. they are victims of industrialization
22. Which of the following is a characteristic of the ending to all Shakespearean sonnets?
A. a rhyming couplet
B. a tercet
C. an octave
D. a triplet
E. lack of rhyme scheme
23. “Yet this enjoys before it woo, / And pampered swells with one blood made of two
And this, alas, is more than we would do” is an example of
A. onomatopoeia
B. repetition
C. a couplet
D. a simile
E. a metaphor
24. In “The Wasteland”, how do the tarot cards from “The Burial of the Dead” become significant?
A. each card comes to physically represent a person in the poem
B. all of the predictions based upon the cards become true
C. Madame Sosostris is proven wrong time after time using her tarot cards
D. The cards are used to swindle the women in Part III
E. The cards have no significance other than in “The Burial of the Dead”
25. The line “its location is illocality” by Emily Dickinson is an example of
A. double entendre
B. paradox
C. litote
D. hyperbole
E. situational irony
26. Imagery come sin many forms through poetry. What is a simpler name for olfactory imagery?
A. taste
B. touch
C. sight
D. smell
E. sound
27. The line “’tis true, then learn how false fears be” contains an example of
A. alliteration
B. apostrophe
C. metaphor
D. litote
E. verbal irony
28. The man with three staves from the Tarot cards in “The Wasteland” is interpreted as being
A. Tiresias
B. The Fisher King
C. Death
D. Buddha
E. All of the above
29. T.S. Eliot wrote that he was influenced by
A. Sylvia Plath
B. Dante
C. Dickinson
D. Billy Collins
E. Da Vinci
30. The poet who was a recluse and dressed all in white or black was
A. T. S. Eliot
B. John Donne
C. Billy Collins
D. Emily Dickinson
E. John Keats
31. John Donne’s poetry focuses primarily on
A. human love and wit
B. moral decay
C. death and rebirth
D. technology
E. depression
32. In “The Flea”, the speaker is angered by the mistress killing the flea because
A. he claims that the murder hurts the very innocence that she is trying to protect
B. he wanted to kill the flea first
C. he feels that she is not worthy of killing a creature from nature
D. it means that she has found another lover
E. murder is not Christian
33. Finish the sentence correctly: “Scansion____________”
A. must be fourteen lines in length and must be in iambic pentameter
B. is the process of measuring verse
C. introduces one additional rhythmical unit
D. serves to illustrate the fixed form in general
E. is a tactic whereby lines may be read backwards and forwards
34. After her death, Emily Dickinson’s poems were found where?
A. in her beloved journal
B. on the corners of napkins, on candy wrappers and on grocery lists
C. covering the walls of her room
D. in her sister Lavinia’s closet
E. in her former lover’s mansion
35. “When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table” is used to
emphasize which of the following?
A. birth
B. shock and excitement
C. awareness
D. spiritual death
E. readiness for death
36. Complete the title of the poem “Shoveling snow with _____________”
A. Muhammed
B. Buddha
C. Ghandi
D. Beethoven
E. The Dalai Lama
37. A limerick is meant to be
A. depressing
B. inspirational
C. satirical
D. humorous
E. of epic proportions
38. Which work was the chief inspiration for T. S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”?
A. The Bible
B. The Canterbury Tales
C. From Ritual to Romance
D. Dante’s Inferno
E. Macbeth
39. To “measure” verse, we use three basic units of the poem:
A. foot, line, and stanza
B. word, line, and stanza
C. a ruler, a compass, and a spoon
D. a foot, a leg, and an arm
E. a line, a foot, and a word
40. Sonnets may be divided into all of the following EXCEPT:
A. an octave and a sestet
B. a tercet and an octave
C. two quatrains and a sestet
D. an octave and two tercets
E. three quatrains and a rhyming couplet
SECTION III: RECOGNIZING TERMS – Select the correct term from the name bank below for each
phrase. Use only one term for each sentence. Some may not be used; others may be used more than once.
A. hyperbole
B. metaphor
C. allusion
D. oxymoron
E. personification
F. simile
G. metonymy
H. apostrophe I. synaesthesia
J. alliteration
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
“jumbo shrimp”
“I’m starved”
“… the appetite of King Henry IV”
“the stars are diamonds”
“the wind howled”
“uncertain stumbling buzz”
“prepares your brittle Nature/ For the Ethereal Blow”
“like a drowned woman into the hot sky”
“in the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo”
“The dew shall weep they fall to night”