AP LIT - POETRY TEST #2 WITH ANSWERS
Central Purpose - correct answer The focus of an informational text; what the author
most wants you to learn by reading the text
Connotation - correct answer an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its
literal or primary meaning.
Denotation - correct answer The dictionary definition of a word
Diction - correct answer A writer's or speaker's choice of words
End-stopped line - correct answer A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually
marked by punctuation
Ex:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
Enjambed line - correct answer a line of poetry in which the meaning of the line requires
the reader to continue on to the next line without pausing for punctuation.
Ex:
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Free Verse - correct answer Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme
scheme
Ex:
I was not happy
With the rain
Until my eye caught
Central Purpose - correct answer The focus of an informational text; what the author
most wants you to learn by reading the text
Connotation - correct answer an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its
literal or primary meaning.
Denotation - correct answer The dictionary definition of a word
Diction - correct answer A writer's or speaker's choice of words
End-stopped line - correct answer A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually
marked by punctuation
Ex:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
Enjambed line - correct answer a line of poetry in which the meaning of the line requires
the reader to continue on to the next line without pausing for punctuation.
Ex:
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Free Verse - correct answer Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme
scheme
Ex:
I was not happy
With the rain
Until my eye caught
