Test 1

Question 1

recurring or emerging ideas in a work

Answer 1

theme

Question 2

language used on more than one level of meaning (i.e. symbolism, simile, metaphor, etc.)

Answer 2

figurative language

Question 3

an expressed comparison using the words “like” or “as”

Answer 3

simile

Question 4

a suggested comparison that compares two dissimilar things

Answer 4

metaphor

Question 5

use of repeated words or phrases throughout a work

Answer 5

repetition

Question 6

similarity in the structure of two or more phrases, clauses, or sentences

Answer 6

parallelism

Question 7

refers to words that are pleasant and musical to the ear

Answer 7

euphony

Question 8

describes language generating that of harshness or dissonance

Answer 8

cacophony

Question 9

the original subject being described in a metaphor

Answer 9

tenor

Question 10

the image the tenor is being compared to

Answer 10

vehicle

Question 11

metaphors developed beyond a single sentence or comparison

Answer 11

extended metaphor

Question 12

a type of extended metaphor that has multiple layers of meaning and symbolism

Answer 12

allegory

Question 13

an expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself

Answer 13

metonymy

Question 14

uses a part of something to stand for the whole

Answer 14

synecdoche

Question 15

literature that addresses an absent person, abstraction, or object

Answer 15

apostrophe

Question 16

gives human characteristics to things that are not human

Answer 16

personification

Question 17

the Nightingale and the Glowworm was written by

Answer 17

William Cowper

Question 18

story with an extended metaphor comparing types of poetry:
1. beautiful poetry is ______
2. wisdom is _____

Answer 18

the Nightingale and the Glowworm
1. nightingale
2. glowworm

Question 19

an extreme exaggeration

Answer 19

hyperbole

Question 20

the opposite of what is expected

Answer 20

irony

Question 21

saying the opposite of what is meant (sarcasm)

Answer 21

verbal irony

Question 22

sentence that states the main idea of the paragraph

Answer 22

topic sentence

Question 23

three ways to develop a paragraph

Answer 23

examples, reasons, incidents

Question 24

means that every sentence in the paragraph develops the idea stated in the topic sentence

Answer 24

unity

Question 25

means that your details are in such good order and the relationships between the details are so clear that the resulting paragraph is easy to understand

Answer 25

coherence

Question 26

author of The Return of the Rangers

Answer 26

Kenneth Roberts

Question 27

story about man vs a greater force (nature)

Answer 27

The Return of the Rangers

Question 28

protagonist in The Return of the Rangers

Answer 28

Major Rogers

Question 29

author of A Bird Came Down the Walk

Answer 29

Emily Dickinson

Question 30

described a bird in a poem

Answer 30

Emily Dickinson

Question 31

in A Bird Came Down the Walk, its wings were compared to ___1___ and its eyes were compared to ___2___

Answer 31

1. oars 2. beads

Question 32

author of What Stumped the Bluejays

Answer 32

Mark Twain

Question 33

author of Mother to Son

Answer 33

Langston Hughes

Question 34

in Mother to Son, the staircase is compared to ______

Answer 34

life

Question 35

wrote The Soul's Dark Cottage

Answer 35

Edmund Waller

Question 36

the cottage in The Soul's Dark Cottage represents ____

Answer 36

the body

Question 37

wrote The Windows

Answer 37

George Herbert

Question 38

the stained glass windows in The Windows compares to _______

Answer 38

Christians

Question 39

in The Spider and the Wasp (written by Alexander Petrunkevitch), who was more intelligent?

Answer 39

the wasp