Exam Review

Question 1

Repetition of similar vowel sounds

EX: tOny dropped a bowling ball on his tOe

Answer 1

Assonance

Question 2

Repetition of consonant sounds before and after different vowels
EX: hardeR and hardeR to heaR

Answer 2

Consonance

Question 3

The use of a word or phrase, such as swoosh or clank, that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes
EX: pow

Answer 3

Onomatopoeia

Question 4

Involves giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea
EX: the spring birds chattered

Answer 4

Personification

Question 5

The pattern of rhyme formed by the end rhyme, which may be designated by assigning a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme

Answer 5

Rhyme Scheme

Question 6

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, makes a point, or evokes humor
EX: she cried so long she made a lake

Answer 6

Hyperbole

Question 7

An object, person, place, or experience that means more than what it is
EX: A valentine to symbolize love

Answer 7

Symbol

Question 8

When you compare two very different things, linking them with the word “like” or “as”
EX: as sharp as a knife

Answer 8

Simile

Question 9

Does not use “like” or “as” to make a comparison

EX: he is a snake

Answer 9

Metaphor

Question 10

Repetition of similar consonant sounds often at the beginning of words.
EX: Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers

Answer 10

Alliteration

Question 11

The breaking of a sentence into two or several lines sometimes lacking proper punctuation

Answer 11

Enjambment

Question 12

Surface meaning of a poem

Answer 12

Literal

Question 13

Meaning under the surface of a poem

Answer 13

Figurative

Question 14

Group of lines forming a unit

Answer 14

Stanza

Question 15

An object, person, or place that means more than what it is

Answer 15

Symbol

Question 16

Pattern of beats created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables

Answer 16

Rhythm

Question 17

Comment that a character makes to the audience that no one else hears

Answer 17

Aside

Question 18

Writers choice of words; an important element in the writers voice or style

Answer 18

Diction

Question 19

A contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality

Answer 19

Irony

Question 20

Irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play

Answer 20

Dramatic irony

Question 21

occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead

Answer 21

Situational Irony

Question 22

speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what he says

Answer 22

Verbal irony

Question 23

Literature that is written in sentence and paragraph form

Answer 23

Prose

Question 24

Play on words with similar sounds but more than one spelling or meaning

Answer 24

Pun

Question 25

Speeches delivered while a character is alone on stage

Answer 25

Soliloquy

Question 26

A play in which the main character suffers a down fall

Answer 26

Tragedy

Question 27

Character that suffers a downfall

Answer 27

Tragic hero

Question 28

Tragic outcome

Answer 28

Tragic resolution

Question 29

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it

Answer 29

Allusion

Question 30

Lines of Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Answer 30

Blank verse

Question 31

struggle occurring within a character's mind

Answer 31

Internal conflict

Question 32

struggle between a person and an outside force

Answer 32

External conflict

Question 33

Description of qualities or peculiarities

Answer 33

Characterization

Question 34

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning

Answer 34

Connotation

Question 35

Literal or primary meaning of a word

Answer 35

Denotation

Question 36

Conversation between two or more people through out a story or poem

Answer 36

Dialogue

Question 37

Poem with lines ending with words that sound the same

Answer 37

End rhyme

Question 38

Author exploits a single metaphor at length through multiple linked grounds in a story

Answer 38

Extended metaphor

Question 39

language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation

Answer 39

Figurative language

Question 40

Combination of stressed and unstressed syllables

Answer 40

Foot

Question 41

Be a warning ir indication if a future event

Answer 41

Foreshadow

Question 42

Metrical foot with one short unstressed syllable followed by one long stressed syllable

Answer 42

Iamb/iambic

Question 43

Visually descriptive or figuratice language

Answer 43

Imagery

Question 44

Rhyme involving a woes in the middle of a line

Answer 44

Internal rhyme

Question 45

Point at which two lines or text are split

Answer 45

Line break

Question 46

Unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats

Answer 46

Meter

Question 47

The narrators position in relation to the story

Answer 47

Point of view

Question 48

Use of humor or irony to expose and critize peoples stupidy

Answer 48

Satire

Question 49

Attitude toward the subject and audience in literary work

Answer 49

Tone

Question 50

Defined as a trait in a character leading to his downfall

Answer 50

Tragic flaw

Question 51

Writer or speaker attributes less importance or conveys less passion then the subject demand

Answer 51

Understatement

Question 52

Without rhymes

Answer 52

Unrhymed

Question 53

The witty explotitation of the meanings and ambiquities of words

Answer 53

Wordplay

Question 54

Abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word

Answer 54

Acronym

Question 55

Subject is doing the action

Answer 55

Active voice

Question 56

List of citations to books, articles, and documents followed by a brief descriptive paragraph

Answer 56

Annotated bibliography

Question 57

Group of words in a sentence that cantains a subject and predicate

Answer 57

Clauses

Question 58

Expression overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning

Answer 58

Cliché

Question 59

Statement that is conclusive

Answer 59

Clincher

Question 60

Use of a comma to join two independent clauses

Answer 60

Comma splice

Question 61

Literary device used in argumentative writing where one acknowledges a point made by ones opponent

Answer 61

Concession

Question 62

Conjunction placed between words of equal rank

Answer 62

Coordinating conjunctions

Question 63

Credibility

Answer 63

Ethos

Question 64

Literary technique in the opening of a story that catches the readers attention

Answer 64

Hook

Question 65

Opening paragraph of an article or essay

Answer 65

Lead

Question 66

Logical

Answer 66

Logos

Question 67

Restatement of speech that retains the basic meaning while changing the words

Answer 67

Paraphrase

Question 68

Subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb

Answer 68

Passive voice

Question 69

Emotional

Answer 69

Pathos

Question 70

Describe the 'true' meaning of a term

Answer 70

Persuasive

Question 71

Words that are taken from someone else

Answer 71

Quotation

Question 72

Characterized by verbosity or unneccassary repetition in expressing ideas

Answer 72

Redundant words

Question 73

Group of words that look like sentences but arent

Answer 73

Sentence fragments

Question 74

Enhances flow of ideas and untensifies points

Answer 74

Sentence variety

Question 75

Conjunction rhat introduces a dependent clause, joining it to a main clause

Answer 75

Subordinate conjunctions

Question 76

Changing of a topive or condition

Answer 76

Transition

Question 77

Words and phrases that provide a connection between ideas

Answer 77

Transition sentence

Question 78

Adverb that indicates the relation in meaning between two sequential indeoendent clauses

Answer 78

Transitional adverbs