A figure of speech that gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea...
A. Personification
B. Oxymoron
C. Diction
A. Personification
100
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together. Ex: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary....
A. Alliteration
B. Paradox
C. Assonance
A. Alliteration
100
A conversation between characters that may reveal their traits and advance the action of a narrative.
A. Dialogue
B. Soliloquy
C. Monologue
A. Dialogue
100
The use of a person, place, thing or event that stands for itself and represents some other meaning, as well.
Ex: The American flag or a white dove.
A. Symbolism
B. Personification
C. Allusion
A. Symbolism
100
The Strategy known as A.C.E.S. can be defined as meaning? It is incorporated in what type of STAAR writing?
A. Answer, Support with quotes, Explain, Summarize. 10 line short answer prompts.
B. Respond, Analyze, State, Answer. 26 line essays.
A. Answer, Support with quotes, Explain, Summarize. 10 line short answer prompts.
200
A statement that is contradicting. Ex: It was raining outside, but I could still see a glare of the sun.
A. Oxymoron
B. Allusion
C. Paradox
A. paradox
200
A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is spoken of as if it were another, for example, the moon is a crisp white cracker
A. quatrain
B. Metaphor
C. Couplet
B.Metaphor
200
Has the potential for greatness, but is doomed to fail. A character that is trapped in a situation that he cannot win. Usually his/her tragic flaw leads to failure.
Ex: Romeo's love for Juliet cause his tragic death.
A. Minor Character
B. Tragic Hero
C. Round Character
B. Tragic Hero
200
Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses. Look, feel, sound, taste, and smell.
Ex: The sick sweet smell of the red roses was all I could remember.
A. Imagery
B. Diction
C. Personification
A. Imagery
200
When using a quote from the text for support, use these at the beginning and end of the evidence
A. Quotation Marks
B. Commas
C. Semi-colons
A. Quotation Marks
300
The dictionary meaning of a word...
A. Denotation
B. Term
C. Connotation
A. Denotation
300
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
A. paragraph
B. Stanza
C. Refrain
B. Stanza
300
Instructions written in a play that indicate actions, movements, and emotions an actor should be expressing throughout. Usually in brackets. Ex:
[Sandra is looking at Tom. She is wearing a brown hat.]
Sandra: Thanks for the wonderful surprise.
Tom: [smiles] It is because I love you darling.
A. Dialogue
B. Stage Directions
C. Satire
B. Stage Directions
300
The central message or meaning that the author tries to convey in a piece of literature that relates to everyday life or human experiences.
Ex: Love conquers all
A. Thesis
B. Theme
C. Allusion
B. Theme
300
What should your expository, 26 line essays include...
A. Symbolism, Theme, Thesis
B. Thesis, Transitions, Introduction, Body, Conclusion
C. Theme, Introduction, Transitions
B. Thesis, Transitions, Introduction, Body, Conclusion
400
The set of ideas or emotions that are added to a word. It is not the dictionary meaning. EX: When you say that a girl walking through the hall is HOT.
A. Imagery
B. Connotation
C. Inference
B. Connotation
400
Rhyming words that are at the end of their respective lines. What we typically think of as a normal rhyme in a poem.
A. End Rhyme
B. Internal Rhyme
C. Close Rhyme
A. End Rhyme
400
A struggle between opposing forces...
A. Laughing.
B. Criticism
C. Conflict
C. Conflict
400
The action or sequence of events in a story. Usually contains 5 basic elements: Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
A. Non-linear story
B. Plot Structure
C. Figurative Language
B. Plot Structure
400
What is the meaning of infer or inference?
A. Summarizing
B. Drawing conclusions, a logical guess, what you can tell from a piece of literature
C. Meaning of the story
B. Drawing conclusions, a logical guess, what you can tell from a piece of literature.
500
A technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story.
A. Mood
B. Flashback
C. Foreshadowing
C. Foreshadowing
500
Exaggeration used to suggest strong emotion or to create a comic effect
Ex: Jim Smiley would follow a bug as far as Mexico to win a bet.
A. Idiom
B. Hyperbole
C. Onomatopoeia
A. Trochaic Trimeter.
B. Triplet quatrain
C. Iambic Pentameter
B. Hyperbole
500
A term when a character expresses his or her inner thoughts to the audience and does not intend the other characters to hear.
Ex: Juliet's last words before she stabs herself at the end of of the play.
A. Aside
B. Soliloquy
C. Dialogue
B. Soliloquy
500
The terms that refers to the language that conveys ideas by saying the opposite. An example of this term is Sarcasm.
Ex: Melissa is 20 minutes late to school, but Frank replies to her, " Melissa you came in so early today to class."
A. Irony
B. Mood
C. Tone
A. Irony
500
When you shorten a quotation by leaving out words or phrase, use these …
A. Dashes
B. Ellipses
C. Colons