Definitions
A figure of speech comparing two things without using like or as.
Metaphor
A figure of speech using like or as.
Simile
Prejudice in favor of or against a thing, person, or group. Usually considered to be unfair.
Bias
Busy as a bee.
Simile
How many questions are on the final?
23
Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman.
Personification
What is an editorial?
An article
Repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
An alliteration
She has a heart of gold.
Metaphor
How much wood would a wood chuck, chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood.
An alliteration
A story, poem, or picture that has a hidden meaning or moral message.
An allegory
Using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize.
Satire
An expression that calls something else to mind without explicitly mentioning it
An allusion
Opportunity knocked on the door.
Personification
What is The Tortoise and the Hare an example of?
An allegory
A poem that does not follow a specific rhyme or meter.
A free verse poem
Random Question: Name 3 similarities between Benjamin Button and The Great Gatsby. (Not on the final)
Each story had a main character named Daisy. Both stories included war, themes of the American dream, and had characters who visited New York. Both stories are by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Etc.
One who rules by themself. From the Greek roots for power and self.
Autocrat
She felt like she had a golden ticket.
An allusion
I walked on through the night.
The moon followed me home,
Or did I follow the moon?
I don't quite know.
Free verse poem
A short and personal poem that expresses the poet’s emotions and feelings.
A lyrical poem
A poem that idealizes rural life, celebrates nature, simplicity, and the harmony between humans and nature.
A pastoral poem
Freedom from punishment. From the latin roots meaning without and punishment.
Impunity
Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost
Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost
Candies the grass, or casts an icy cream
Upon the silver lake or crystal stream
Pastoral
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Lyrical Poem