Literary Devices
An indirect reference to a person, event, statement, theme or work made to enrich meaning through the connotations they carry.
What is an allusion?
May 3, 2023.
What is the date for the AP exam in English Literature and Composition?
Consists of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
What is an Shakespearian Sonnet?
Something that, although it is of interest in its own right, stands for or suggests something larger and more complex.
What is a symbol?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is what is personification?
Author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
A poem that tells a story, usually (but not always) in four-line stanzas called quatrains.
What is a ballad?
A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole.
What is synecdoche?
Repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different.
ex: Mike likes to ride his new bike
What is consonance?
Author of "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover"
Who is Robert Browning?
A poem in English literature, usually a lament for the dead.
What is an elegy?
The arrangement and interrelation of events in a narrative work.
What is a plot?
The close placement of contrasting ideas, images, or entities, with the intent of highlighting the contrast between those entities
What is juxtaposition?
19th Century author of "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
60 minutes, 55 questions.
What are Multiple Choice questions?
A poem that explores the fantasy of withdrawing from modern life to live in an idyllic rural setting. The base form of a verb proceeded by "to" and used as a noun, an adverb, or an adjective.
What is pastoral poetry?
A concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.
ex: crown is used in place of king or queen
What is metonymy?
Read questions first, eliminate answer choices that are obviously incorrect, and watch the time.
What are excellent strategies for multiple choice questions?
A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is an ode?
A metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable
What is an anapest?