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Final Test
Final Test
Final Test
Final Test
Final Test
100
Gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
Personification
100
Words and phrases that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste
Sensory Details
100
The voice that "talks" to the reader, similar to the narrator in fiction.
Speaker
100
A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity.
Repetition
100
Use of words whose sounds echo their meanings.
Onomatopoeia
200
A rhymed pair of lines.
Couplet
200
The feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for readers.
Mood
200
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
Simile
200
Information that helps prove a claim.
Support
200
A vivid description that appeals to one or more of a readers' five senses.
Imagery
300
Literary work that expresses the writer's attitude toward his or her subject.
Tone
300
A statement of belief based on evidence, experience, and reasoning.
Conclusion
300
Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme.
Free Verse
300
Involves the arrangement of words and lines to produce a desired effect.
Structure of Poetry
300
The way an author reveals the traits and personality of the characters.
Characterization
400
The method of narration used in a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of non-fiction.
Point of View
400
The writer's position on an issue or problem.
Author's Main Claim
400
The unique combination of ideas, values, feelings, and beliefs that influence the way the writer looks at a topic.
Author's Viewpoint
400
A special kind of contrast between appearance and reality - usually one in which reality is the opposite of what it seems.
Irony
400
A pattern of end rhymes in a poem. It is noted by assignment a letter of the alphabet to each line.
Rhyme Scheme
500
Where the reader or viewer knows something that a character does not know.
Dramatic Irony
500
A contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually exists or happens.
Situational Irony
500
Exists when someone knowingly exaggerates or says one thing and means another.
Verbal Irony
500
Using commas and words such as .... for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so, therefore, then.
Coordinating Conjunction
500
Using commas and words such as .... because, unless, as, although.
Subordinating Conjunction