Poetic Terms
Examples and Usage of Literary Techniques
Nonfiction Elements and Tricks
Exam Information
Crucial Classmate Knowledge
100
The definition of hyperbole.
What is an extreme exaggeration?
100
The dominant technique in the following quote: "The wonder spreads/ Of life,/ Of life,/ Of life!"
What is repetition?
100
Of the following, this type of text is NOT, by definition, nonfiction: editorial, memoir, prose, or speech.
What is prose?
100
The day, time, and room number of your exam.
What is Thursday, June 19th at noon in room 410?
100
This student is most likely to make a joke that Ms. Travis can't hear.
Who is Anil?
200
The definition of oxymoron.
What is a phrase that seems to contradict itself or is comprised of opposites?
200
The dominant technique in the following quote: "...trees put forth/ New leaves to sing/ In joy beneath the sky"
What is personification?
200
Also known as "attitude," this term refers to how the speaker feels about a subject and should be identified by an adjective.
What is tone?
200
The number and type of written assignments you will have to complete.
What are two assignments: a synthesis/argument essay and a nonfiction response?
200
This student is most likely to pick his own name out of the cup.
Who is Justin?
300
The definition of alliteration.
What is the repeated sound at the beginning of words?
300
This technique is what identifies how the phrase "silver rain" can suggest value as well as beauty.
What is connotation?
300
In nonfiction, the audience should identify this concept in order to make a claim about what the author says about his or her subject. (Hint: starts with a "p")
What is purpose?
300
In a written response, this part of the body paragraph is the most important to Ms. Travis because it explains how the author makes an effect on his or her audience.
What is the inference with a literary device?
300
This student is most likely to ask about the homework.
Who is Brandon?
400
The technique that refers to the repetition of consonant sounds.
What is consonance?
400
The dominant technique in the following quote: "Life is a broken-winged bird/ That cannot fly."
What is metaphor?
400
This technique can either distance the author from his or her subject matter or connect with the subject matter simply by changing how the story is told.
What is point of view? (Third person point of view makes the piece more objective; first person makes the piece more personal)
400
In any kind of written response, this word can help students begin to develop a claim from a fact into an insight.
What is "because"?
400
Any two students who have a 100% attendance record for fourth quarter.
Who are: Evan, Brandon, Jessica, Ryan?
500
The technique that refers to the repeated sounds of vowels.
What is assonance?
500
The pattern of sound in the following selection: "Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss; No bird is singing now, and if there is, Be it my loss. It will be long ere the marshes resume, I will be long ere the earliest bird: So close the windows and not hear the wind, But see all wind-stirred.
What is rhyme (ABCB DEFE)?
500
Referred to the "trifecta" in class last week, this three-technique approach allows students to build an argument about the speaker from the smallest details to the big picture (you need the three techniques in the correct order!).
What is connotation-tone-characterization/conflict?
500
The number of multiple choice questions on this exam.
What is twenty?
500
Ms. Travis's favorite student.
What is the entire class?
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