Figurative Language
Genre Differences
Poetry
Literature
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100

What is a reference that alludes to a historical figure, event, or literature? 

Allusion 

100

What genre is where someone writes a text about themselves? 

Autobiography

100

What is the tone of "The Journey"?

Hopeful 

100

What term means ordering events from the beginning to the end?

Chronological

200

What is the repetition of vowel sounds? 

Assonance 

200


a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.



Genre

200

What is the tone of "12"?

Excitement 

200

What is a hint in a passage that suggests future events? 

Foreshadowing

300

Which literary device below is the best choice for the line below?

For years we lived with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

Personification 

300

An _______________ is a first-person account of an author’s own life from childhood to the time the text was written. It generally covers facts about the author’s public and private life, often in chronological order. Because it is a life story, the text is usually written later in the subject’s life.

Autobiography 

300

What is the tone of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?

Peaceful but unsettling 

300

What is the meaning of vivid in the passage below.


The flight lasted just a few minutes, but so many of the details are rich and vivid to me.

Easy to remember

Detailed

Clear


300

What is a memory that takes the character back to a different time period?

Flashback 

400

What does the below passage reflect as the main type of figurative language? 

“He shall not hear the bittern cry

   In the wild sky, where he is lain

   Nor voices of the sweeter birds

   Above the wailing of the rain.”

Assonance 

400

A ____________ is a text written about a person by someone else. The subject is usually a historical or public figure. The author must conduct extensive research and then interpret and analyze the information. This kind of text is written in the third person and often employ a chronological text structure.

Biography 

400

Which poem discussed discovery the most in its lines?

"12"

400

Sight, smells, sounds, touch, taste 

Imagery 

500

Which figurative language is reflected in the passage below? 

A young couple is too poor to buy each other Christmas gifts.  The man sells his pocket watch to buy his wife a set of combs for her long, beautiful hair.  She, meanwhile, cuts off her beautiful hair and sells it to a wig-maker for money to buy her husband a watch-chain.

Irony 

500

___________ are texts written about events, ideas, or individuals that appear in newspapers, magazines, academic journals, reference books, and on the Internet. This text is research-based, meaning that they include information from reliable sources. They often include specialized vocabulary, statistics, and graphic features such as photographs, charts, and graphs. The author’s purpose determines the text structure.

Article 

500

Which poem discussed determination the most? 

"The Journey"

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