AP Lang. and Comp. Literary Terms T-Z

7 Written Questions

1. expressions in which a single word stands in the same grammatical relation to two or more other words, but with an obvious shift in its significance. For example "Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss." ---Shakespeare Here the verb 'give' has the same relationship to the two indirect objects—'them' and 'me' -but the meaning has shifted because of the two direct objects—'fingers' and 'lips.'
2. the achievement of an illusion of reality in the audience
3. stanza of three lines
4. the argument or proposition one attempts to prove or defend in a scholarly essay
5. compositions written in meter, a line of poetry; can refer to poetry in general
6. a general concept or doctrine which an imaginative work is designed to incorporate and make persuasive to the reader; a significant idea in a literary text
7. common everyday speech, slang

6 Multiple Choice Questions

1. restraint or lack of emphasis in expression, as for rhetorical effect
   1. theme
   2. understatement
   3. terza rima
   4. verse
2. figures of speech, most of which are used to compare dissimilar objects to achieve effects beyond the range of literal language; tropes include simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, etc.
   1. tropes
   2. litotes
   3. trochee
   4. tone
3. the techniques and modes of presentation an author uses to reveal or create attitudes in a literary piece; the author's attitude toward his subject and audience
   1. theme
   2. tone
   3. tropes
   4. voice
4. a pervasive authorial presence, a determinate intelligence and moral sensibility, which has invented, ordered, rendered, and expressed literary characters and materials in just this way; usually discussed as a strong voice, absence of voice, etc.
   1. voice
   2. verse
   3. theme
   4. tone
5. a noble hero who suffers a change in fortune from happiness to misery because of a mistaken act, to which he is led by his hamartia. The tragic hero moves us to pity because his punishment is greater than he deserves, but he also move us to fear because we see similar possibilities of error in our own selves
   1. tragic hero
   2. tragic flaw
   3. tragedy
   4. trochee
6. synonym for litotes
   1. meiosis
   2. thesis
   3. tropes
   4. verse

6 True/False Questions

1. tragedy → figures of speech, most of which are used to compare dissimilar objects to achieve effects beyond the range of literal language; tropes include simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, etc.

   True        False

2. tragic flaw → a noble hero who suffers a change in fortune from happiness to misery because of a mistaken act, to which he is led by his hamartia. The tragic hero moves us to pity because his punishment is greater than he deserves, but he also move us to fear because we see similar possibilities of error in our own selves

   True        False

3. terza rima → poetry written in tercets which are interlinked in that each is linked to the one following by a common rhyme aba, bcb, cdc, and so on

   True        False

4. transitions → the argument or proposition one attempts to prove or defend in a scholarly essay

   True        False

5. trochee → figures of speech, most of which are used to compare dissimilar objects to achieve effects beyond the range of literal language; tropes include simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, etc.

   True        False

6. litotes → a form of understatement that asserts that something is true by denying its opposite, e.g., He is no Einstein. (He is stupid.)That is no little matter. (That is an important matter.)

   True        False