The manner in which an author expresses word usage in a piece of literature...
A. Personification
B. Oxymoron
C. Diction
C. Diction
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What words can help you better understand the author's attitude in a peom?
A. Tone Words
B. Nouns
C. Perosnification
A. Tone Words
100
A serious play or drama typically dealing with the problems of a central character, leading to an unhappy or disastrous ending. Ex: Romeo and Juliet
A. Tragedy
B. Soap Opera
C. Cartoon
A. Tragedy
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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
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The Strategy known as A.C.E?
A. Answer, Cite with quotes, Explain.
B. Ask a question, convey the answer,Explain.
A. Answer, Cite with quotes, Explain.
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A statement that is adding a human characteristic to an object (ex: The hills have eyes) is called:
A. Personification
B. Allusion
C. Metaphor
A. Personification
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Two consecutive lines of poetry.
A. quatrain
B. Couplet
C. Iambic
B. Couplet
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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
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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
What should you do before you begin writing your 26 line essay?
A. Find a quote
B. Pre-Write and create your thesis statement
C. Just start writing
B. Pre-Write and create your thesis statement
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The dictionary meaning of a word...
A. Denotation
B. Term
C. Connotation
A. Denotation
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A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
A. paragraph
B. Stanza
C. Refrain
B. Stanza
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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, and is holding Tom's hand. Both are conversing in a park.]
Sandra: Thanks for the wonderful suprise.
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
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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
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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
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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
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A play that makes fun of something or someone. It's part of the Genre of comedy. Ex: movies like Scream, and Scary Movie.
A. Laughing.
B. Criticism
C. Satire.
C. Satire
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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
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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,
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
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Ten-Syllable lines in which every other syllable is stressed or accented. You have a total of 5 accented or stressed syllables in one line. Shakespeare is known to use this type of rhythm in poems.
Ex:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
A. Trochaic Trimeter.
B. Triplet quatrain
C. Iambic Pentameter
C. Iambic Pentameter
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
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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
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What can you do to relieve stress when you feel stressed out and sleepy during a test?
A. Take a quick nap
B. Go to the bathroom
C. Deep breathing