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
