AP Literature Poetry Terms Test Review Material 01/07/25 PDF
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This is a review document for an AP Literature poetry terms test. It covers a variety of poetic devices, including metaphor, simile, and paradox. The document contains examples and explanations, accompanied by sample poetry and poetry analysis.
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AP LITERATURE: Poetry Terms Test Review Material for 01/07/25 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_dxlj3v What contribute to the development and Line and stanza breaks relationship of ideas in a poem? stanza...
AP LITERATURE: Poetry Terms Test Review Material for 01/07/25 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_dxlj3v What contribute to the development and Line and stanza breaks relationship of ideas in a poem? stanza A group of lines in a poem The position and placement of ideas in a What does a text's structure mean? text Through focus; tone; point of view; char- acter, narrator, or speaker perspective; How is contrast can be introduced? dramatic situation or moment; settings or time; or imagery. epizeuxis repetition of one word The repetition of the same letter sound at the beginning of adjacent or nearby alliteration words to emphasize those words and their associations or representations. simile A comparison using "like" or "as" metaphor A comparison without using like or as A statement that requires defense with What is a claim? evidence from the text. Placement of two things closely together juxtaposition to emphasize comparisons or contrasts A word, a structural convention, or punc- How are shifts signaled? tuation. A word, phrase, or clause that precedes What is an antecedent? (comes before) its referent (the thing to which it refers) Contrasts between particular segments What can shifts emphasize? of a text. A person or thing to which a name - a linguistic expression or other symbol - What is a referent? refers. Referents may include pronouns, nouns, phrases, or clauses. "Our revels now are ended. These our actors,/As I foretold you, were all spirits 1/4 AP LITERATURE: Poetry Terms Test Review Material for 01/07/25 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_dxlj3v and/Are melted into air, into thin air..." The above lines of poetry are examples metaphor of what poetic device? A figure of speech that combines op- oxymoron posite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. A statement that appears to be self-con- paradox tradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth. A question asked for an effect, and not rhetorical question actually requiring an answer. To keep your marriage brimming/With love in the loving cup,/Whenever you're wrong, admit it;/ paradox Whenever you're right, shut up. The above lines of poetry are examples of what poetic device? If you prick us, do we not bleed?/If you tickle us, do we not laugh?/If you poison us, do we not die? rhetorical question The above lines of poetry are examples of what poetic device? A long speech made by a character in soliliquy a play while no other characters are on stage. "To be, or not to be, that is the ques- tion:/Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer/The slings and arrows of outra- geous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles/And by opposing end soliliquy them." (Hamlet is alone on stage) The above lines of poetry are examples of what poetic device? A person, place, thing, or event that has symbol meaning in itself and that also stands for something else. 2/4 AP LITERATURE: Poetry Terms Test Review Material for 01/07/25 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_dxlj3v The use of words whose sounds echo onomatopoeia their sense. The repetition of a word, phrase, or anaphora clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. "In every cry of every Man,/In every in- fant's cry of fear,/In every voice, in every ban." anaphora The above lines of poetry are examples of what poetic device? a rhetorical device that uses parallel antithesis (Note that the prefix "anti" structure to juxtapose contrasting ideas, means "opposite" or "against"). words, or qualities in a sentence "Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n..." antithesis The above line of poetry is an example of what poetic device? The calling out to an imaginary, dead, or apostrophe absent person, or to a place or thing. O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,/The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won... apostrophe The above lines of poetry are examples of what poetic device? A word or phrase that has become life- cliché less because of overuse At the end of the day.../It is what it is. Think outside the box./Better late than never. cliché The above sentences are an example of... A poem of mourning, usually about elegy someone who has died. epistrophe 3/4 AP LITERATURE: Poetry Terms Test Review Material for 01/07/25 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_dxlj3v The same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses or sentences. "If you had known the virtue of the ring,/Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,/Or your own honour to contain the ring,/You would not then have parted epistrophe with the ring." The above lines of poetry are examples of what poetic device? A figure of speech that uses incredible hyperbole exaggeration or overstatement for effect. The use of language to evoke a picture or imagery a concrete sensation of a person, thing, place or an experience. Anger is like / A full hot horse The above line of poetry is an example of simile what poetic device? A rhetorical device used by a writer to contrast emphasize the differences between two people, places or things. The speaker poses a question and then answers the question Example: "When the enemy struck on hypophora that June day of 1950, what did America do? It did what it always has done in all its times of peril." - President Eisenhower 4/4