vocab test march. 17

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

words that are close together start with the same sound
GREEN GRASS GREW on the side walks

Question 2

Verse

Answer 2

a single line in a poetic composition

“If there’s another universe, please make some noise / Give me a sign / This can’t be life / If there’s a point to losing love / Repeating pain, it’s all the same”

Question 3

figurative language

Answer 3

use words in a way that’s different from their usual meaning

The wind whispered secrets

Question 4

Hyperbole

Answer 4

extreme exageration

I was dying of laughter

Question 5

Irony

Answer 5

when words mean the opposite of what they seem to say (humorous).

The Titanic was touted as an “unsinkable ship”, yet it sank of the first voyage.

Question 6

Caesura

Answer 6

any interruption or break between words

“i war with the wind; with the waves I wrestle” (; indicates a pause)

Question 7

Cadence

Answer 7

The rhythm or pace that a poem is read

Sarcasm or a change in tone

Question 8

Connotation

Answer 8

the emotional assocation to a word

Negative - old
Positive - antique

Question 9

Allusion

Answer 9

an indirect or passing reference.

“To my dog, our neighborhood park is the Garden of Eden” alludes to the Christian Bible.

Question 10

Anaphora

Answer 10

when you repeat the same word or phrase at the beginning of several sentences

“WITH malice towards none
WITH charity for all
WITH firmness in the right”