AP Literature AP Test Flashcards

6109691923	Formal tendencies used by metaphysical poets to talk about _____ issues.	philosophical	0
6109693484	How is wit often seen in metaphysical poetry?	In the pairing of dissimilar objects into the service of a clever, ironic analogy or paradoxical conceit	1
6109696706	What are 3 important literary devices in metaphysical poetry?	1. Wit 2. Irony 3. Paradox	2
6109697755	Metaphysical poetry is famous for its _____ and _____.	difficulty obscurity	3
6109698995	Metaphysical poems exhibit introspective meditations on what 4 things?	1. Love 2. Death 3. God 4. Human frailty	4
6109699683	literary movement	Grouping of writers who share similar aims, years of publication, and base of operations	5
6109703502	Augustan poets were likely to dress absurdly _____ plots in the outward appearance of _____ poetry for _____ effect.	mundane heroic epic comic	6
6109706030	What is the ongoing subject of Augustan poetry?	Human frailty	7
6109706966	What are the 4 most important characteristics of Augustans?	1. Wit 2. Irony 3. Paradox 4. Brevity	8
6109709422	Augustan poetry is best known for its rhymed, heroic-couplet satire. These pairs of lines in iambic pentameter often produce great _____.	forward propulsion	9
6109710523	What is Augustan poetry best known for?	Rhymed, heroic couplet satire	10
6109712752	What poet should you think of when you hear the term "metaphysical poetry"?	John Donne	11
6109719945	The poems of John Donne are much more realistic about _____ relationships.	sexual	12
6109721709	Metaphysical poetry is a mostly seventeenth-century English poetic mode that breaks with earlier Renaissance ideas about _____.	romantic poetry	13
6109722781	Who were the 2 troubadours?	1. Petrarch 2. Shakespeare	14
6109724578	The troubadours often wrote _____ poetry that placed the object of their poems on a pedestal.	love	15
6109728237	Augustan poets went back to _____ for their inspiration.	antiquity	16
6109729593	Why are Augustan poems so long?	They employ the heroic couplet.	17