Poetry
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
What i s rhyme scheme?
Piggy's glasses in The Lord of the Flies (identify the device)
What is a symbol?
Explain the function of setting and give an example.
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"The gray sea and the long black land; / and the yellow half-moon large and low"
What is imagery?
And the plane to the pine-tree is whispering some tale of love / Till it rustles with laughter and tosses its mantle of green
What is personification?
Explain the function of contrasting characters and give an example.
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"What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun? / Or fester like a sore- / and then run?
Simile
This is considered the dictionary definition of a word
How can the reliability of a narrator affect a narrative?
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I'm a riddle in nine syllables, / An elephant, a pnderous house, / A melon strolling on two tenrils.
What is metaphor?
A word's implied meaning; its meaning beyond its actual definition
What is connotation?
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Addressing something that is not present as if it was there and could respond
What is apostrophe?
Using the part of a whole or something closely related for the thing that is actually meant (substitution)
Metonymy
Explain the relationship between a character and a setting and give an example using a text we've read this year.
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