AP Lit Terms IV
26 Questions
| Attempts: 23
This is the fourth part of the practice quizzes for lit terms.
Questions and Answers
- 1.An imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject
- 2.A version of a text put into simpler, everyday words
- 3.Overstatement; gross exaggeration for rhetorical effect
- 4.A lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place
- 5.A word or phrase representing that which can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, or felt
- 6.A Latin term for a narrataive that starts "in the middle of things" rather than at the beginning of events
- 7.A comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness, although it may have a serious, scornful purpose
- 8.Type of language that implies meanings (i.e. metaphors, similes, personification, and many others)
- 9.The choice of words in oral and written discourse
- 10.A circumstance in which the audience or reader knows more about a situation than a character.
- 11.A feeling of association or identification with an object or person, especially their feelings
- 12.The pattern of rhymes within a given poem
- 13.The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry.
- 14.A popular form of verse containing fourteen lines and a prescribed rhyme scheme
- 15.A group of two or more lines in poetry combined according to subject matter, rhyme, or some other plan (like a paragraph in prose)
- 16.The manner in which the story or poem is put together
- 17.A style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind
- 18.The organization of language into meaningful structure; every sentence has a particular ____, or pattern of words
- 19.The manner of writing in which an author uses and arranges words, shapes ideas, forms sentences, and creates a structure to convey ideas.
- 20.The use of one object to evoke ideas and associations not literally part of the original object.
- 21.A subordinate or minor collection of events in a novel or play, usually connected to the main storyline.
- 22.Figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
- 23.A literary composition, usually in verse, in which a speaker reveals his or her character, often in relation to a critical situation or event, in a long, singular speech addressed to the reader or to a presumed listener
- 24.Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially opposition that motivates or shapes the action of the plot.
- 25.A short account of an interesting or humorous incident.
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