Figurative Language
SAT Vocabulary
Poems
Strategies/Charts
Fill in the Blank
100
He's such a Mario.
What is an allusion?
100
Afford means this.
What is to be able to buy?/ What is to be able to spare?
100
He wrote A Dream Within a Dream.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
What is the POV chart?
100
This is “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to ----.”
What is live?
200
He had cruel niceness.
What is an oxymoron?
200
Ubiquitous means this.
What is being everywhere at once?
200
He wrote Holy Sonnet 10.
Who is John Donne?
200
What is the umbrella chart?
200
This is “Not all those who ------ are lost.”
What is wander?
300
The horses talked to each other.
What is a personification?
300
Civic means this.
What is relating to the city or citizens?
300
He wrote Sonnet 18.
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
What is RACE?
300
This is “There is some ---- in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
What is good?
400
He ate a horse.
What is a metaphor?
400
Bear means this.
What is to have as a characteristic?/What is to have (a child)?/What is to bring forth?/What is to put up with?
400
He wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Who is T.S. Eliot?
400
What is the Say/Mean/Method/Matter chart?
400
This is “The past is not ----. In fact, it’s not even past.”
What is dead?
500
The rain was like stones striking again and again and again.
What is a simile?
500
Austere means this.
What is extremely plain?/What is stern and forbidding?/ What is relating to self-denial?
500
He wrote Ozymandias.
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
500
What is the SWIFT strategy?
500
This is “Those who don’t believe in ----- will never find it.”
What is magic?