MC Answers and Review (Poetry, Part 2)

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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. The following questions were not written by CollegeBoard and although they cover information outlined in the AP English Literature and Composition Course and Exam Description the formatting on the exam may be different.

(1) What is enjambment?

(A) A line of poetry with a single word

(C) An abrupt stop at the end of a line

(D) One line of poetry much longer than the rest

✅ Answer: Definition

(2) What is a sonnet?

(A) A poem where each line rhymes

(B) A sixteen line poem broken into four quatrains

(C) All poems made up of tercets

(D) Any fourteen-line poem

✅ Answer: Definition, recognizing rhyme scheme doesn't matter

(A) A poem's rhyme scheme

(C) The total lines covered by a poem

(D) When the last two lines rhyme

✅ Answer: Definition, emphasizing rhythm

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(A) A line of iambic pentameter with one extra syllable

(C) Any rhyming poem

(D) The total count of all syllables in a poem

✅ Answer: Definition, emphasis on missing rhyme scheme

(A) A period in the middle of a line of poetry

(B) An end-stop

(C) Starting each line with the same letter or sound

✅ Answer: Showing difference between the break rather than the punctuation

(A) A stanza starting with only consonants

(B) The difference in one from the first line compared to the last line

(D) Two slightly different lines

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(A) All hard sounds in a poem

(B) All soft sounds in a poem

(C) The general mood of a poem

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(A) A dash in a line

(C) Repeating the same word at the start of a line

(D) Using multiple double-letter words like "pool" or "been"

✅ Answer: Focus on rhyme

(B) Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers

(C) Two lines that do not rhyme

(D) Words that just nearly rhyme

✅ Answer: Focus on meter

(A) A single word to end a poem

(B) A speaker consumed by the subject

(D) When two rhyming lines surround an un-rhymed line

✅ Answer: Definition

(11) What is a caesura?

(A) A one stanza poem

(C) No more than three words on a line

(D) No punctuation in a poem

✅ Answer: Focus on any pause

(B) A poem about death

(C) A poem about songs

(D) A poem about the senses

✅ Answer: Focus on celebration

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(A) A larger way to think about overarching themes in a poem

(B) The central motif of a poem

(C) The way a poem keeps pace

✅ Answer: Definition

(A) A poem focused on lessons through animals

(B) A poem inspired by an earlier work

(D) A poem with a false counter-narrative

✅ Answer: Focus on sound

(A) A meter indicating Victorian poetry

(C) Ten syllables in a line

(D) Two unstressed syllables

✅ Answer: Difference between iamb and meter

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