Poetry
Fiction
Nonfiction
Samples and Examples
EOC
100

Repeated consonant sounds in the middle or end of words

What is consonance?

100

Type of irony that involves a person saying one thing, but meaning another

What is verbal irony?

100

In a work of nonfiction, its the author's focus of an essay

What is the main idea? (What is the central idea?)

100

The moon was a bright, smiling face

What is a metaphor?

100

The number of characters provided for writing a constructed response

What is 1000 characters?

200

A sound, word, phrase, or line repeated regularly in a poem

What is a refrain?

200

An idea, symbol, pattern, or character type that appears again and again in stories from cultures around the world and symbolizes something universal in the human experience 

What is an archetype?

200

A contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangement of words or clauses

What is antithesis?

200

"Nothing runs like a Deere"

What is a pun?

200

The maximum amount of time given on the English EOC

What is four hours?

300

What the P is SOAPStone stands for

What is purpose?

300

A figure of speech in which abstract ideas are described in terms of characters, figures, and events

What is allegory?

300

Parallelism, appeals, Repetition, Analogy

What are rhetorical devices?

300

"Peter Piper picked a pepper"

What is alliteration?

300

The only thing you are allowed to have under your desk during the EOC

What is a novel?
400

What the S in TP-CAST

What is shift?

400

A brie and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance

What is allusion?

400

Anaphora

What is repetition at the beginning of successive phrases?

400

"The river was roaring in the mountains"

What is personification?

400

A strategy used to substitute annotating a text directly

What is White Paper Annotations?

500

Combines two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox

What is an oxymoron?

500

Language or expression that are not literally true but express some truth beyond the literal level

What is figurative language?

500

When analyzing the tone of a text, these five parts of a nonfiction text give the reader clues to help reveal the author's attitude

What are diction, imagery, details, language, and syntax?

500

"I listen to their laughter, I listen to their cheers, I listen to their happiness and long for my own"

What is anaphora?

500

The best way to make sure your constructed response is void of errors in spelling, grammar, and sentence structure

What is proofreading?

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