AP English 1st Semester Exam

Allusion

A brief and direct reference to a person, thing, or ideas of historical, cultural, literary or political significance

Situational irony

A discrepancy between actual circumstances and those that would seem expected

Flashback

A narrative structure that interrupts the chronology of the plot by inserting scenes of past events

Point of view

A narrative viewpoint, which employs a characterized narrator is ____

Point of view

A narrative viewpoint, which sometimes employs a characterized narrator

Pun

A play on words, where an author employs a word that has a second meaning and both meanings can be applied

Personification

A special kind of metaphor that gives human attributes to a nonhuman object

Is insightful and supported by evidence

A strong claim

Horatio

Hamlet's best friend

Prince Hamlet

Son of Queen Gertrude

Affect narrative pacing

Stanza breaks can

Inversion

Technique in which the order of words is reversed

Exposition, climax, resolution

The 3 definitive instances in a story

Emphasizes for Hamlet his own lack of passion and action in moving forward with his revenge

The actor's crying bothers Hamlet because it _________

Elsinore

The castle

Denotation

The dictionary definition of a word

Motivation

The drive behind a character's actions is called

Motivation

The drive behind a character's actions, which are motivated by desires, needs, or conflicts

Tone

The emotional meaning behind lines of poetry

Perspective

The feelings and outlook of the narrator as a person

Clever employee

The final paragraph indicates that the narrator's perspective on his predicament is that he needs to treat Boxsious as a _____

Unusual and somewhat baffling experience

The narrator's overall point of view presents that series of events as an_____

How they frame and what parts to include

The narrator's power over the story comes from _____

Rising action

The part of the story where the author builds the most interest in the story, through suspense or tension

Doomed to spend his days in Purgatory

The reader understands that old King Hamlet did NOT live a life free from sin because he was _______

The ability to question and think critically about the text

The reader's power in the story comes from ____

Imagery

The representation of sense experience through language

Denmark

The setting of Hamlet is ____?

Narrative pacing

The speed at which the author wants you to read

Late Medieval Period

The time period Hamlet is set in is ___?

All of these are correct

The way in which a character thinks or speaks can reveal

Narrative relationship

The way in which a narrator relates an account to the reader is ____

Verbal irony

To say the opposite of what you mean with the goal of being figurative

Polonius

Trusted advisor to King Claudius

Life, in general

What is Hamlet comparing to "an unseeded garden that grows to seed"

Eerily mysterious

What mood is established in the opening scene?

He will add lines to the original work that will mimic the murderous actions against King Hamlet

What's Hamlet's plan to make the play parallel the murderous actions of his uncle?

He is extremely long-winded and it highlights his own foolishness

What's ironic about Polonius's famous line, "....brevity is the soul of wit"?

Apostrophe

When a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, dead, or nonhuman

Title, Author, Genre

When breaking down a prompt, a TAG includes _____

Twist ending

When the resolution of a story differs drastically from what the reader would expect

Laertes

Which of these characters is already a foil for Hamlet?

Gertrude

Widow

Description, dialogue, deeds

Writers can build characterization through _____

Caesura

a pause within a line of poetry

Dramatic irony

when the audience knows something the characters do not

claim, evidence, commentary

An AP paragraph should contain all of the following elements ___

Paradox

An apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true

Prince Hamlet has doubts about weather or not to exact revenge on the ghost's behalf

An example of Man vs. Se,f Conflict in Hamlet's demonstrated when _____

A key word or emerging symbol

An idea that might support a claim can be based on

Symbol

An image or thing that stands for something else

Hyperbole

An overstatement or extravagant exaggeration, so far exaggerated that it cannot be taken literally

King Hamlet

Asks Hamlet to get revenge for him

Connotations

Associated or implied meanings of a word

In media res

Beginning a story in a critical situation in the middle of the plot

Sarcasm

Bitter speech with the intent to hurt someone's feelings

Physical, emotional, and psychological traits

Characters in prose and poetry can be described according to their

Static characters

Characters who remain unchanged or unaffected by the plot

Simile

Comparison made between 2 things using words "like", "as", "than", or "resembles"

Metaphor

Comparison made between 2 things without the use of helping words

Narrative relationship

Feeling and outlook of the narrator a a person is called

All of these are correct

First person point of view can

Ophelia

Hamlet's girlfriend

They establish a false expectation for the reader of an unremarkable session

How do the events and actions presented in the first two paragraphs ("A timely... behind me") serve to heighten the subsequent impression made by Boxsious on the reader?

Moderate degree of feeling

In context, the "friendly doings of my dove" (line 3) is best understood to represent the speaker's ____

Gertrude's weakness caused her to remarry so quickly

In line 18, when Hamlet says "Frailty, thy name is woman" what he really means is ______

Duration and intensity

In lines 1-5 ("I loved... strong") the primary contrast is between ___

The narrator

It is always best to address the speaker in a work of prose as _____

You know the thoughts and feelings of only a single character

Limited 3rd person POV

"I wish I could disappear."

Lines 1-2 of Hamlet's first soliloquy means

stream of consciousness

Literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow

Satire

Literature that ridicules human folly in order to bring about reform

Claudius

New ruler of Denmark

You only know the events in the story, but no thoughts or feelings are mentioned

Objective 3rd person POV

Sudden exposition

Occurs when readers gather character and background information, and setting details in the rising action as opposed to the exposition

Foreshadowing

Occurs when the author hints at plot events that will come later in the story

Laeretes

Ophelia's brother

Archetypal strategies

Patterns in dramatic situations that create expectations for how the situations will progress and be resolved

Open form

Poetry that does not yield to rules or follow and established pattern

Closed form

Poetry that fits into an established form using structure, rhyme, and meter

Inquire about Laeretes' reputation and possibly smear it to find out information

Polonius asks Reynaldo to _______

Eavesdropping on Hamlet and Ophelia

Polonius plans to find out if Hamlet is truly love-crazed over Ophelia by _______

He fears they'd be upset (and could possibly take their anger out in Polonius)

Polonius wants to tell King Claudius and Queen Gertrude about Hamlet's odd behavior and about Hamlet and Ophelia's relationship because _____

Fortinbras

Prince of Norway

All of these

Setting encompasses

It can impact the conflict or character's behavior

Setting is important because_______

Contrast

Something that is different from something else in close association

The Murder of Gonzago

What's the name of the play that Hamlet has requested the acting troupe to perform the following night?

Grabs Ophelia by the wrist and stares at her face without speaking for a long time

When Hamlet enters Ophelia's room he ______

Enjabment

When a line doesn't stop at the end of the line, but continues into the next line without pause or punctuation

Biased or unreliable narrator

When a narrator is uninformed or deliberately dishonest

Understatement

When a poem says less than it means as a form of verbal irony