Multiple Choice Questions (Poetry I)

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Facts about the test: The AP English Lit exam has 55 multiple-choice questions and you will be given 1 hour to complete the section. That means it should take you around 10 minutes to complete 9 questions.

A. All the descriptions of where different characters are standing in a room

B. The description of a dark setting feeling unsettling

C. A description of a character's physical features

D. Any definition of the word

A. The speaker asking philosophical questions, then suddenly answering them

B. A line break where the tone stays the same

C. One character speaking and another responding

D. A series of colorful words, followed by a series of character descriptions

A. The overall feeling the author's POV brings to an excerpt

B. How a character feels in a given scene

C. How the reader reacts to a piece

D. The overall feeling of a work or excerpt

A. Two characters in conflict

B. The overall feeling of a work or excerpt

C. A character reacting harshly

D. The overall feeling the author's POV brings to an excerpt

A. Three words beginning with the same letter

B. The speaker addressing an inanimate object

C. A piece of punctuation

D. Three rhyming lines

A. Unrhymed iambic pentameter

B. Poetry without rhyme or meter

C. The difference between a poem and a novel

D. A poem that rhymes in the final two lines

A. How many lines rhyme in a poem

B. The specific line length of a poem

C. A combination of stressed and unstressed syllables

D. A poem with three stanzas

A. An extended metaphor throughout a poem

B. Exaggeration within a poem

C. A sudden realization in a poem

D. A change from the start to the end of a poem

A. A dynamic character in work

B. Two stanzas that mirror one another

C. Something left unknown to the reader

D. When a word has two possible meanings

A. Poetry with one word per line

B. Poetry without rhyme or meter

C. Poetry with rhymed pentameter

D. Unrhymed iambic pentameter

A. A poem without much spacing, deliberately, between lines

B. An ode to industrialism

C. A religious poem

D. A poem celebrating nature and simplicity

A. The lesson learned in a poem

B. Different uses of the color red throughout a poem

C. The central purpose of a work

D. The dangers of tradition

A. In poetry, a deliberate change in word order

B. Use of an em-dash to cause a pause

C. Words offset in a single line

D. When a sentence runs across two lines

A. The pace of a poem

B. The feeling of a poem

C. All the distinctive features in a poem

D. The rhyme scheme in a poem

A. A soft sound followed by a hard sound

B. A jumble of words to create dissonance

C. When a line has all hard consonant sounds

D. A series of words written to develop a pleasing sound