Figurative Language
Poetry Terms
Test Day!
Story Elements
Argumentation/Rhetoric
100
A comparison using like or as
What is a Simile?
100
Instead of paragraphs, poems have this
What is a stanza?
100

You should bring this writing utensil on test day

What is a... lol you thought. It's online!!

100
The over-arching message of a story
What is theme?
100
A quality that evokes emotions (like pity or sadness)
What is pathos?
200
Ex: Gertrude gets good grades
What is alliteration?
200
A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line
What is enjambment?
200

The number of multiple choice questions on the test

What is 50?

200
How a piece makes you feel while reading
What is mood?
200
The way to get people to agree with an idea, attitude, or action by rational and emotional means
What is persuasion?
300
Ex: That test destroyed me
What is hyperbole?
300
Ex: Once I dive into these pages I may not come out for ages
What is a couplet?
300

The day our class is taking the English NCFE

What is December 17th?

300
The end of the rising action and the main point of conflict
What is climax?
300
A short story serving to make the listeners laugh or ponder over a topic
What is an anecdote?
400
Ex: It's raining cats and dogs
What is an idiom?
400
Word order and sentence structure
What is syntax?
400

The simplest form you can write your short answers in

What short answers? We only have multiple choice

400
This is a character that doesn't change during the story
What is a static character?
400
Ex: Seriously funny
What is an oxymoron?
500
Ex: Carter said, "Yaaoowwwww!"
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Natasha Trethewey's "Incident" is an example of this
What is a pantoum?
500

Jeffrey's phone goes off during the test resulting in this

What is a misadministration?

500
Ex: Angela is wearing a t-shirt and has long beautiful hair
What is direct characterization?
500
Ex: Amy Smith made a reference to the Great Gatsby during the seminar
What is allusion?
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