11-15 terms

Question 1

Consonance

Answer 1

repetition of identical consonant sounds within 2 or more words in close proximity
ex) boot/best/brag

Question 2

Coherence

Answer 2

quality of a writing in which all the parts are contributing to the development of the central idea/them or organizing principle

Question 3

Caricature

Answer 3

descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personality

Question 4

Aphorism

Answer 4

short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. Ben Franklin was somewhat famous for these on Poor Richard’s Almanac “The Early Bird Gets The Word”

Question 5

Apostrophe

Answer 5

usually in poetry, sometimes in prose- device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or a place, thing, or personified abstraction