AP LIT: Post Test

Apostrophe

A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object, or idea, or a person who us either dead or absent is called

Assonance

The repetition of similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of successive words is

Consonance

The repetition of similar consonant sounds in the stressed syllables of successive words is

Iamb

A metrical unit consisting of an unstressed - stressed syllables is a(n)

Analyst

A metrical foot consisting of tow unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable is called a(n)

Ballad

A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form is a(n)

Catharsis

An audience's response to a trade gym, a purgatory of emotions, is called

Hubris

A character’s excessive pride is known as what in Greek tragedy?

Internal Rhyme

A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line

Enjambment

The continuation of a sentence from one line of verse into the next line without terminal punctuation is called

Blank Verse

Unrhymed verse in iambic parameter is referred to as

Fixed Form

A poem that may be characterized by the pattern of its lines, rhythm, or stanzas is called

Sestina

There is a type of a poem that consists of six stanzas of six lines each and three-line envoy. The end words of the first stanza are repeated in a different order as end words in each of the subsequent five stanzas; the closing envoy contains all six words. What is the name if this type of poem?

14 lines

A sonnet contains how many lines?

Villinalle

A poem co sitting of five three-line stanzas and a final quarantine, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas, is what type of poem?

Elegy

A mournful poem is called a(n)

Dramatic Irony

_____________ is when a reader is aware of something that the character isn't

Lyric

A poem in which the speaker expresses his personal feelings is considered a(n)

Causera

A stop or pause in a metrical line is called a(n)

Litote

A deliberate understatement for effective (the opposite of hyperbole) is