Ap Lit Vocab #1

Question 1

Apostrophe

Answer 1

Speaker addresses an inanimate object (“Death, be not porud!”)

Question 2

Blank verse

Answer 2

Unrhymed iambic pentameter (Shakespeare’s plays are in blank verse)

Question 3

Colloquialism

Answer 3

Informal speech;typically used in ordinary conversation

Question 4

Dramatic monologue

Answer 4

Poem in which a character delivers a speech explaining his/her feelings, actions, or motives

Question 5

English sonnet

Answer 5

Sonnet divided into three quatrains and a final couplet, using rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg; Shakespearen sonnet

Question 6

Foot

Answer 6

Combination of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 7

Iamb

Answer 7

Poetical foot with two syllables-first unstressed and second stressed (ex: a-BOVE)

Question 8

Iambic pentameter

Answer 8

A rhythmic pattern or stressed and unstressed syllables used in poetry and verse drama

Question 9

Parallelism

Answer 9

Repeated words, phrases, clauses, or grammatical structures used for effect

Question 10

Stanza

Answer 10

Group of lines in verse;poetical equivalent of a paragraph