AP Vocab 121-150

Question 1

Lyrical Poetry

Answer 1

Poetry which expresses an emotion.

Question 2

Meter

Answer 2

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

Question 3

Meter, Hexameter

Answer 3

Six feet per line of poetry.

Question 4

Meter, Pentameter

Answer 4

Five feet per line of poetry; the most common meter in English poetry.

Question 5

Meter, Scansion

Answer 5

The marking of meter in a poem.

Question 6

Metonymy

Answer 6

A figure of speech where a word or phrase is used to represent something related to it.

Question 7

Mock Heroic

Answer 7

A type of satire using elevated style out of proportion to its trivial subject.

Question 8

Mood

Answer 8

The overall atmosphere of a work established through the description of setting and the choice of objects being described.

Question 9

Motif

Answer 9

Recurring image.

Question 10

Myth

Answer 10

Traditional tale of unknown authorship involving gods and goddesses or other supernatural beings, often explaining aspects of nature.

Question 11

Narrator

Answer 11

The person telling the story.

Question 12

Naturalism

Answer 12

19th Century literary movement in which characters are doomed by heredity and/or environment.

Question 13

Novel of Manners

Answer 13

Narrative which defines social customs of a specific group, usually the upper-middle class.

Question 14

Octave

Answer 14

An eight-line poem OR the first eight lines of an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet.

Question 15

Ode

Answer 15

A long lyrical poem, formal in style and complex in form, often written in commemoration or celebration of a special person, quality, object, or occasion.

Question 16

Onomatopoeia

Answer 16

Use of words whose sounds imitate their meaning.

Question 17

Oxymoron

Answer 17

Figure of speech that combines contradictory terms.

Question 18

Pacing

Answer 18

Rate of movement (tempo) in a work; may be slower with exposition and description and faster with dramatic incidence.

Question 19

Parable

Answer 19

Story with an implied or stated moral.

Question 20

Paradigm

Answer 20

A model, ideal, or standard.

Question 21

Parallel Structures

Answer 21

The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter.

Question 22

Paradox

Answer 22

A statement or situation that appears contradictory, but isn’t.

Question 23

Parody

Answer 23

A rewording of a popularly recognized work to make fun of something.

Question 24

Pastoral Poem

Answer 24

Poem which often depicts an imaginary life in the country filled with happy characters such as shepherds and nymphs; Events and dialogues are idealized, not realistic.

Question 25

Periodic Sentence

Answer 25

A sentence which does not complete its thought until the very end due to introductory modifiers, interrupting modifiers, etc.

Question 26

Persona

Answer 26

The mask or voice of the author in a work.

Question 27

Personification

Answer 27

A specific type of metaphor in which inanimate objects are given human qualities.

Question 28

Picaresque

Answer 28

Novel which usually presents the life story of quick-witted rogues and their adventures, often in episodic style.

Question 29

Plot

Answer 29

Sequence of events.

Question 30

Plot, Climax

Answer 30

The decisive or turning point in a story or play when the action changes course and begins to move towards resolution.