Poetic Sensibilities
Two rhyming lines at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is a heroic couplet?
"Boom," "Zing," and "Buzz" are all examples of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
This sonnet by Wordsworth is a lamentation on the alienation from nature brought forth by the Industrial Revolution.
What is "The World is Too Much With Us"?
Which of these is not a requirement of the sophistication point: the use of vivid language; situating the text in a broader context; exploration of tension or conflict; complex thesis?
What is complex thesis?
Instead of formulas like "this quote shows," strong analytical essays use this method of integrating quotes.
What is embedding quotations (or "quote sprinkles")?
The references to Paradise Lost in Frankenstein are examples of this device.
What is allusion?
One of these is NOT a characteristic of Romanticism: belief in reason over the imagination; interest in classical art; reverence for nature
What is belief in reason over imagination?
In simple, AP-Lit terms, "complexity" means this.
What is analyzing two or more sides of a character, issue, or argument?
Literary analysis is generally written in this verb tense.
What is the "literary present"?
The last six lines in a Petrarchan sonnet.
What is a sestet?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge and "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley are stories-within-stories, also known as this.
What are frame narratives?
This poetic form idealizes nature and rural life.
What is the pastoral?
This term refers to subtle shades of meaning, tone, emotion, or characterization that add depth and complexity through delicate distinctions such as word choice, subtext, and complexity.
What is nuance?
This is the term for "turning a prompt on its head" and arguing against the question it poses.
What is "reading against the grain"?
A lamentation or poem of mourning on the occasion of someone's death.
What is an elegy?
This is the term for the appearance of truth, realism, or believability in literature.
What is verisimilitude?
This poet believed in two contradictory states of the human soul, as illustrated in Songs of Innocence and Experience.
Who is William Blake?
The word "sophistication" derives from the Greek "sophie" or "sophia," which means this.
What is wisdom?
This common grammatical error occurs when two independent clauses are separated by a comma.
What is comma splice?
"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell is an example of this type of poem.
What is "carpe diem"?
This term for excessive pride is often considered to be the downfall of Macbeth.
What is hubris?
This term refers to the aesthetic experience of awe that transcends words. It's also the name of a 90's alternative/ska band with hit songs like "What I Got" and "Santeria."
What is sublime?
This word, which rhymes with "sophistication," is the term for the suggested, rather than literal, meaning of a word.
What is connotation?
Therefore, consequently, thus, however, and nevertheless are examples of this grammatical concept.
What is a conjunctive adverb?