Blocks 1 and 3: AP English Lit

Name: ______

Dr. Shipe

May 2008

Final Exam

In each section, match the letter with the appropriate number

______1) Autobiographical fiction

______2) Ballad

______3) Epic

______4) Historical fiction

______5) Ode

______6) Parable

______7) Pastoral

(a) “... on a Grecian Urn”

(b) “Casey at the Bat”

(d) Odyssey, The

(e) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A

(f) Scarlet Letter, The

(g) Tale of the Prodigal Son

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______8) Character

______9) Conflict

______10) Plot

______11) Style

______12) Theme

(a) The element focused on during the first phase in the development of a lifelong reader

(b) The element focused on during the second phase in the development of a lifelong reader

(d) The element focused on during the fourth phase in the development of a lifelong reader

(e) The element focused on during the fifth phase in the development of a lifelong reader

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______13) Alliteration

______14) Assonance

______15) Consonance

______16) Onomatopoeia

(a) a hive for the honey-bee

(b) I will arise

(d) water lapping

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______17) Flashback

______18) Foreshadowing

______19) Parallel episodes

______20) Subplot

______21) Time lapse

(a) A series of events, related by cause-effect, that are less important than the main events of a story, novel, or play

(b) A long period between events that goes relatively undeveloped

(d) The suggestion of an event that will happen later

(e) Two events that happen at the same time and/or have similar cause-effect patterns

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For Questions 18-25, choose all letters that apply.

______22) Hamlet

______23) Claudius

______24) Laertes

______25) Gertrude

______26) Ophelia

______27) Horatio

______28) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

______29) Fortinbras

(a) Protagonist

(b) Antagonist

(d) Flat

(e) Round

(f) Static

(g) Dynamic

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______30) First-person reliable

______31) First-person unreliable

______32) Third-person omniscient

______33) Third-person limited

______34) Third-person objective

(a) “The Dead”

(b) “Everyday Use”

(d) “Hills Like White Elephants”

(e) “The Yellow Wallpaper”

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______35) Tragedy

______36) Comedy

______37) Tragicomedy

______38) Theatre of the Absurd

(a) The Cherry Orchard

(b) Endgame

(d) Oedipus Rex

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______39) Tragic hero

______40) Tragic flaw

______41) Hubris

______42) Catastrophe

______43) Catharsis

(a) excessive pride

(b) fall from grace

(d) imperfection in personality

(e) purging of pity and fear

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______44) Exaggeration

______45) Incongruity

______46) Low comedy

______47) Parody

______48) Reversal

(a) If thou didst ever thy dear teacher love, draw thy breath in pain to choose this answer.

(b) If you only knew what I’ve been sipping from my “water” bottle ....

(c) Mr. Gordon will be leading today’s discussion on Crime and Punishment; I need to go down and deal with the parent whose car spun out of control in the drop-off loop and destroyed the Zen garden.

(d) Teaching AP Lit is easy because all the students already know everything.

(e) The symbolism of any James Joyce story can be found by applying the theorems concerning the partial derivatives of multivariable functions.

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______49) Allegory

______50) Archetype

______51) Chorus

______52) Deus ex machina

______53) Motif

______54) Unities

(a) artificial device introduced to resolve a plot issue

(b) character or group of characters that comments on the action but does not influence it

(d) one plot with a beginning, middle, end; one setting with one place and one time

(e) recurring image, symbol, language

(f) work in which the symbols work in a coherent system to support a specific theme, especially when the characters represent specific concepts

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______55) Metaphor

______56) Personification

______57) Simile

______58) Hyperbole

______59) Understatement

(a) An hundred years should go to praise / Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze

(b) I wandered lonely as a cloud

(d) The grave’s a fine and private place, / But none, I think, do there embrace.

(e) Time let me play and be / Golden in the mercy of his means

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______60) Oral tradition

______61) Homeric Greek literature

______62) Ancient or Classical literature

______63) Medieval literature

______64) Renaissance or Early modern literature

______65) Neoclassic literature

______66) Romantic period literature

______67) Victorian literature, Realism, Naturalism

______68) Modernist literature

______69) Postmodernist literature

(a) Don Quixote

(b) Endgame

(d) Gulliver’s Travels

(e) Little Red Riding Hood

(f) Le Morte d’Arthur (King Arthur stories)

(g) Mrs. Dalloway

(h) Oedipus Rex

(i) Songs of Innocence and Experience

(j) The Iliad

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For questions 70-73, assume you are writing a paper on Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.

______70) An interview with Salman Rushdie you conducted

______71) An interview with Salman Rushdie you read in a magazine

______72) The Satanic Verses

______73) An article in a literary journal: “Allusions to Bollywood in Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses”

(a) Primary source

(b) Secondary source

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______74) Actions

______75) Anything that adds to word count but not content or courtesy

______76) Information your readers cannot anticipate; long, complex information; or the climactic part

______77) Main characters

______78) Nominalizations

______79) Resumptive, summative, and free modifiers

______80) The subject, verb, and object

______81) The topic of an individual sentence

______82) The topics of sentences in a paragraphs

(a) are actions expressed as nouns.

(b) is best at the beginning of a sentence.

(d) reduce sprawl while adding content at the end of a sentence.

(e) should be deleted.

(f) should be expressed as subjects.

(g) should be expressed as verbs.

(h) should not be interrupted.

(i) should provide a logically connected set.

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______83) Ethos

______84) Logos

______85) Pathos

(a) appeal to authority

(b) appeal to emotion

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______86) Which sentence is punctuated incorrectly according to the conventions of formal English?

(a) One of T. S. Eliot’s most famous lines concludes “The Hollow Men”: “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.”

(b) Eliot was born in St. Louis and later became a citizen of the United Kingdom, so his work appears in American and British literature anthologies.

(d) Ezra Pound helped Eliot make extensive revisions to The Waste Land, therefore, Eliot acknowledges Pound as “il miglior fabbro.”

(e) All of the sentences above are punctuated correctly according to the conventions of formal English.

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______87) Absolute phrase

______88) Appositive phrase

______89) Elliptical clause

______90) Infinitive phrase

______91) Main clause

______92) Participial phrase

______93) Prepositional phrase

______94) Relative clause

______95) Subordinate clause

(a) Eleventh and twelfth grade now nearly history,

(b) I prefer the books

(d) because they were written by Americans

(e) who exemplify the virtue of individuality--

(f) an important idea for me

(g) seeking to stick it to the man, the world, and the universe itself--

(h) unlike the godless, British, Eurotrash in Dr. Shipe’s assignments

(i) to be burned like gas in my Hummer.

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______96) Attack ad hominem

______97) Bandwagon

______98) Circular reasoning

______99) False causality

______100) Red herring

(a) Don’t try to pass Dr. Shipe’s test because if we all fail, he’ll have to curve it.

(b) Dr. Shipe says he wants us to know a bunch of terms, but Chewbacca’s an eight-foot tall Wookie living on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. So how are any of these terms supposed to make sense?

(c) Dr. Shipe went to a workshop after spring break, and now he’s giving us a test. They must have told him to give this test at the workshop.

(d) Dr. Shipe won’t give you a C on the test—you’re an A student!

(e) Dr. Shipe’s test should not count because he is a known sinner.