AP Vocabulary Quiz 12

Question 1

Persona/Speaker

Answer 1

ℹDef: The aspect of someone’s character that is presented to or perceived by others./A role or character adopted by an author or an actor. 🔵Part Of Speech: Noun. 🔵Sentence: “Her public persona”/”Her stage persona is nothing like the real Muriel”

Question 2

Petrarchan Sonnet

Answer 2

ℹDef: A sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd. 🔵Part Of Speech: Noun.

Question 3

Quatrain

Answer 3

ℹDef: A stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes. 🔵Part Of Speech: Noun.

Question 4

Realism

Answer 4

ℹDef: (1)The attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly./The view that the subject matter of politics is political power, not matters of principle.(2)The quality or fact of representing a person, thing, or situation accurately or in a way that is true to life./(in art and literature) The movement or style of representing familiar things as they actually are. 🔵Part Of Speech: Noun. 🔵Sentence: (1)”The summit was marked by a new mood of realism”/”Political realism is the oldest approach to global politics”. (2)”The earthy realism of Raimu’s characters”

Question 5

Refrain

Answer 5

ℹDef: Stop oneself from doing something. 🔵Part Of Speech: Verb. 🔵Sentence: “She refrained from comment”

Question 6

Scansion

Answer 6

ℹDef: The action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm./The rhythm of a line of verse. 🔵Part Of Speech: Noun.

Question 7

Shakespearean Sonnet

Answer 7

ℹDef: The sonnets are almost all constructed from three quatrains, which are four-line stanzas, and a final couplet composed in iambic pentameter. This is also the meter used extensively in Shakespeare’s plays. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. Sonnets using this scheme are known as Shakespearean sonnets. 🔵Part Of Speech: Noun.

Question 8

Stanza

Answer 8

ℹDef: A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse./A group of four lines in some Greek and Latin meters. 🔵Part Of Speech: Noun.

Question 9

Stereotype

Answer 9

ℹDef: (1)A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.(2)A relief printing plate cast in a mold made from composed type or an original plate.(1)View or represent as a stereotype. 🔵Part Of Speech: Noun, Verb. 🔵Sentence: (1)”The stereotype of the woman as the carer”.(1)”The city is too easily stereotyped as an industrial wasteland”.

Question 10

Stock Character

Answer 10

ℹDef: Stock characters are archetypal characters distinguished by their flatness. 🔵Part Of Speech: Noun.