AP Lit Midterm
Pride and Prejudice: Lady Catherine says all of the following to Elizabeth about her engagement to Darcy EXCEPT ....
"I am not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable."
Ch. 12: Which of the following is distinctive about "The Tyger" contrasted with "The Lamb"?
"The Tyger" uses only interrogative sentences, while "The Lamb" uses only declarative sentences in the second part of the poem.
Pride and Prejudice: Lydia refers to her husband as ....
"my dear Wickham"
Ch. 16--Owen, Clifton, Swift, Auden, Whitman: The most dramatic shift in tone in Whitman's "Dirge for Two Veterans" (pp. 1215-16) occurs after which line number?
28
anapest
Alouette
An axe angles from my neighbor's ashcan
Anglo-Saxon accentual meter
Hey, Jack, what's up?
Casual
Hello, Mr. Thomas. How are you this morning?
Consultative
Pride and Prejudice: Jane and Bingley
Content to move 30 miles away from Mr. and Mrs.Bennet
Ch. 12: Which of the following is NOT an effect of using a variety of words for "Blacks" in lines 51-63?
Criticizing race as a false concept socially constructed
dactyl
Dorothy
Good morning, sir. May I speak to the director, please?
Formal language
Welcome to the Hugh Brothers Industrial Center. Where tomorrow's world meets today's. Please remember that no flash photography is allowed during this tour.
Frozen language (fixed and unchanged)
Pride and Prejudice: Which of the following is the STRONGEST reason Elizabeth refuses Mr. Darcy's proposal?
His sense that it would be a degradation to marry someone beneath his status
Ch. 14--Imagery. Coleridge, Eliot, Pound, Shakespeare, Rich, Williams: Which of the following provides the BEST restatement of the final two lines of "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" (776)?
I love her for who she really is, which is unusual
Ch. 18--Shakespeare, Milton, Ginsberg, Randall, Thomas, "Lord Randal": In many sonnets, there is a turn (from the Italian volta) where the thought or argument has a major shift. In Milton's sonnet "On His Blindness" (p. 955-56), where does the turn occur?
In the middle of the last line of the octet
Pride and Prejudice: Lydia and Wickham
Indifferent to each other and needing money
How's my wittle snuggy wuggy??
Intimiate
iamb
Irene
Pride and Prejudice: Read this sentence from Pride and Prejudice: "Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence." With whom has Elizabeth "dared to trifle"?
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Ch 12: From the context, the reader can infer that lines 28-30 of Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" mean
Love ends only in sorrow and pain in our world
amphibrach
Marisa
Pride and Prejudice: Whom is this passage describing? At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of [Mr. Darcy's], she gave a great yawn and said, ``How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.'' No one made any reply. She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement ....
Miss Caroline Bingley
Pride and Prejudice: Based on the first impression they give at the dance, which of these men do the ladies find most appealing?
Mr. Darcy
Pride and Prejudice: Who is being referred to in this quotation: "Why, if he came only to be silent, grave, and indifferent ... did he come at all?"
Mr. Darcy
Pride and Prejudice: Which of the following statements is true?
Mrs. Bennet is glad to send Jane on a horse through the rain to see Mr. Bingley
Ch. 16--Owen, Clifton, Swift, Auden, Whitman: The tone of much of Auden's "The Unknown Citizen" (p. 1139-40) most likely indicates which of the following?
NOT The speaker believes in the importance of individuality.
Ch. 18--Shakespeare, Milton, Ginsberg, Randall, Thomas, "Lord Randal": Which of the poems best shares the form and purpose of the anonymously authored "Lord Randal" (pp. 1137-38)?
Randall's "Ballad of Birmingham" (956-57)
Pride and Prejudice: Mr. and Mrs. Bennet
She, still silly; and he, happy to take opportunity to travel from home
Ch. 12: In lines 21-22 of Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," what does the speaker mean when he says that the boughs can never "bid Spring adieu?"
Since the tree is painted on an urn, it will always be depicted as spring
Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth and Darcy
Thankful and eventually forgiving of those who had been against their union
Ch. 18--Shakespeare, Milton, Ginsberg, Randall, Thomas, "Lord Randal": Which of the following best describes the purpose of the form of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 (p. 933)?
The speaker gives multiple descriptions of what love is not to emphasize what true love is.
Pride and Prejudice: Lydia's running away with Wickham is embarrassing to the family for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
They had hoped Wickham would marry Elizabeth
trochee
Thomas
Fences: In Rose's speech to Troy (Act 2, Scene 1, speech 111), her metaphor ("I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom") shows ....
Troy's harsh attitude toward life has severely damaged her sense of hope
Ch. 12: A major theme of Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is ....
What is permanent is more valuable than what is ephemeral
persona
a brief dramatization of the poet's personality
dramatic monologue
a type of poem where the speaker includes or reflects the listener's unrecorded responses
Fences: Troy's conversation with Cory about getting his job at the A&P grocery story back (p. 1717) shows his (Troy's) belief in all of the following EXCEPT ....
agitating for civil rights
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold
anapestic tetrameter
Ch. 14--Imagery. Coleridge, Eliot, Pound, Shakespeare, Rich, Williams: Literary imagery is meant to trigger the imagination of any of the following EXCEPT
assumptions
Fences: The ending of the play builds on all of the following motifs (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. EXCEPT ....
baseball
short vowel
bet
situational irony
characters are enmeshed in circumstances that contradict their expectation and control
ode
complexly structured poem often meditating philosophically and offering praise
Ch. 14--Imagery. Coleridge, Eliot, Pound, Shakespeare, Rich, Williams: The diction of "The Red Wheelbarrow" (1218) is best described as ....
concrete
Ch. 16--Owen, Clifton, Swift, Auden, Whitman: Which of the following best expresses the tone of the speaker in Clifton's "homage to my hips"
confident
Petrarchan sonnet
consists of an octave and sestet
Shakespearean sonnet
consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet
Ch. 17: Which sounds come from the touching or near touching of various parts of the mouth (e.g., lips, teeth, tongue, hard palate, soft palate) obstructing the flow of air?
consonants
ballad stanza
contains four lines with either abab or abcd rhyme
Ch. 16--Owen, Clifton, Swift, Auden, Whitman: Which of the following best expresses the tone of the speaker in Swift's "A Description of the Morning"?
cynical
Brother is madder than mad at the fact that's corrupt as a senator
dactylic hexameter
Ch. 12: Blake's "The Lamb" abstract diction
delight
Ch. 16--Owen, Clifton, Swift, Auden, Whitman: Which of the following best expresses the tone of the speaker in Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"?
disgust
long vowel
door
octet
eight-line stanza
fricative consonant
f, v, th, ch, j
Ch. 14--Imagery. Coleridge, Eliot, Pound, Shakespeare, Rich, Williams: "Diving into the Wreck" (1193-95) includes imagery describing all of the following EXCEPT ...
fish
quatrain
four-line stanza
Ch. 18--Shakespeare, Milton, Ginsberg, Randall, Thomas, "Lord Randal": Which of the following best describes the form of Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California" (948-49)?
free verse
Ch. 12: Blake's "The Tyger" specific diction
hammer
half rhyme
heaven, even
That time of year thou may'st in me behold
iambic pentameter
What is the meter of Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"?
iambic trimeter
Ch. 14--Imagery. Coleridge, Eliot, Pound, Shakespeare, Rich, Williams: The speaker of "In a Station of the Metro" (774) is ....
in a city
Ch. 18--Shakespeare, Milton, Ginsberg, Randall, Thomas, "Lord Randal": Which of the following is NOT a feature that classifies the form of Randall's "Ballad of Birmingham" (956-57)?
irregular syllable counts in each line
liquid consonant
l, r
stanza
lines grouped by form, rhyme, and other means
feminine rhyme
longer, stronger
nasal consonant
m, n, ng
Ch. 14--Imagery. Coleridge, Eliot, Pound, Shakespeare, Rich, Williams: The imagery in "Preludes" (761-62) contribute to a mood of ....
modern, urban despair
ballad
narrative poem usually about common folk
Pride and Prejudice: Mr. Bennet married Mrs. Bennet most likely because ....
of his impetuous attraction to her
verbal irony
one thing is said and the opposite is meant
Ch. 18--Shakespeare, Milton, Ginsberg, Randall, Thomas, "Lord Randal": Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" (959-60) demonstrates all of the common properties of a villanelle EXCEPT ....
pastoral setting and subject
elegy
poem lamenting the death of someone
free verse
poetry with no fixed form
Fences: Troy's main purpose in telling the story about wrestling with Death (pp. 1706-07) can be best described as ....
presenting himself as someone with the guile and strength to maneuver around the sufferings of life
Pride and Prejudice: The Bennet sisters find Mr. Wickham in these chapters all of the following EXCEPT
proud
masculine rhyme
rest, oppressed
sibilant consonant
s, z, sh
Pride and Prejudice: Based on Ch. 1-2, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet may be best described, respectively, as
sardonic and dramatic
sestet
six-line stanza
Pride and Prejudice: A primary motivator for Mr. Collins' behavior in Ch. 16-27 is ....
status
Ch. 12: Blake's "The Lamb" concrete diction
stream
plosive consonant
t, d, b, p, k, g
Ch. 12: Blake's "The Tyger" general diction
terrors
dramatic irony
the audience/reader knows more about the characters' circumstances than they do
Fences: Read the end of this speech of Troy's: "And right there the world suddenly got big. And it was a long time before I could cut it down to where I could handle it. Part of that cutting down was when I got to the place where I could feel him kicking in my blood and knew that the only thing that separated us was the matter of a few years" (pp. 1723-24). Which best describes Troy's internal conflict as expressed in this speech?
the desire to be free from his father and the desire to be reconciled with him
Fences: The stage directions before Act 1, Scene 1 primarily emphasize a contrast between ...?
the different experiences of white and black arrivals to the city in the early 20th century
tercet
three-line stanza
listener
to whom the poem is addressed
couplet
two consecutive rhyming lines
heroic couplet
two consecutive rhyming lines in iambic pentameter
Ch. 14--Imagery. Coleridge, Eliot, Pound, Shakespeare, Rich, Williams: The organization of "Kubla Khan" (759-60) is best described as ...
two visions, one much longer than the other, followed by the speaker's desire to transcend his present situation
blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
semivowel
w, y, h
Pride and Prejudice: The attitudes Georgiana Darcy and Caroline Bingley show toward Elizabeth on her visit to Pemberley can be best described as, respectively, ....
warm, cold
speaker
who the "I" of the poem is
author
who wrote the poem
diphthong
why
