1. AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION
UNIT 1 TEST REVIEW

2. TERMS
SPEAKER/PERSONA/MASK SOUND DEVICES: ALLITERATION CONSONANCE ASSONANCE onomatopoeia

3. TERMS LYRIC POETRY SONNET VILLANELLE ITALIAN/PETRARCHAN
ENGLISH/SHAKESPEREAN
SPENSERIAN
VILLANELLE

4. TERMS FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE METAPHOR SIMILE PERSONIFICATION APOSTROPHE
METONYMY
SYNECDOCHE

5. TERMS
METER
IAMBIC
Trochaic
Anapestic
Dactylic
Spondaic
Pyrrhic

6. TERMS METRICAL LINES Monometer- one foot * Dimeter – two feet
Trimeter – three feet * Tetrameter – four feet
Pentameter – five feet * Hexameter – six feet
Heptameter – seven feet

7. TERMS RHYME PERFECT RHYME HALF RHYME EYE RHYME MASCULINE RHYME
FEMININE RHYME
TRIPLE RHYME

8. TERMS
BLANK VERSE
FREE VERSE

9. TERMS
IMAGERY
SYMBOL
CONVENTIONAL SYMBOLS

10. TERMS POETIC STRUCTURE REPETITIVE NARRATIVE LOGICAL STRUCTURE
VERBAL IRONY-
UNDERSTATEMENT-
LITOTES-
HYPERBOLE-
PARADOX-

11. SCHOOLS OF POETRY METAPHYSICAL POETS
NOTABLE POETS: JOHN DONNE, ANDREW MARVELL, GEORGE HERBERT
ARGUMENTS APPEAL TO INTELECT AS WELL AS EMOTIONS
SUBJECTS INCLUDE: LOVE AND PHYSICAL ATTRACTION, DEATH, THE INDIVIDUAL’S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
USED UNUSUAL COMPARSIONS AND EXTENDED METAPHORS (CONCEITS)
WROTE IN PLAIN STYLE

12. SCHOOLS OF POETS ROMANTIC POETS
NOTABLE POETS: BLAKE, WORDSWORTH, COLDERIDGE, SHELLEY, KEATS, BYRON
LOVE OF NATURE
SUPERNATURALISM/MYSTICISM
REVOLT AGAINST SOCIETY
MELANCHOLY AND PESSIMISM
CELEBRATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL
INTEREST IN THE COMMON MAN

13. SCHOOLS OF POETS TRANSCENDENTALISM
MAJOR WRITERS: EMERSON, WHITMAN, DICKINSON *
INFLUENCED BY THE ROMANTICS
SOCIETY IS A BARRIER BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE SPIRIT
DIVINITY CAN BE FOUND IN THE INDIVIDUAL
KNOWLEDGE CANNOT BE FOUND SIMPLY THROUGH THE SENSES

14. SCHOOLS OF POETRY MODERNIST POETS
POETS INCLUDE: T.S. ELLIOT, EZRA POUND, E.E. CUMMINGS, H.D., WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
DISILLUSSIONMENT WITH SOCIETY FOLLOWING WORLD WAR I
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
BREAK WITH THE TRADITIONS OF THE PAST
EXPERIMENTATION WITH FORM, PUNCTUATION

15. SCHOOLS OF POETRY HARLEM RENAISSANCE POETS
NOTABLE POETS: LANGSTON HUGHES, JEAN TOOMER, COUNTEE CULLEN, CLAUDE MCKAY
EXAMINATION AND CELEBRATION OF THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
LYRICISM INFLUENCED BY JAZZ AND THE BLUES
FOCUS ON BOTH INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY

16. SCHOOLS OF POETRY THE BEAT POETS
NOTABLE POETS: ALLEN GINSBERG, GARY SNYDER, JACK KEROUAC, LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
INFLUENCE BY WORLD WAR II AND THE POST-WAR ERA
BATTLED SOCIAL CONFORMITY AND LITERARY TRADITION
INFLUENCED BY DRUG USE AND EASTERN RELIGION
CHALLENGED NORMS OF SOCIETY

17. SCHOOLS OF POETRY THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT
NOTABLE POETS: AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES), GWENDOLYN BROOKS, NIKKI GIOVANNI, RITA DOVE
INFLUCENCED BY THE BEAT POETS AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
ROOTED IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS AND TIED TO THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT
USE OF VERNACULAR LANGUAGE AND FREE VERSE