GMAS ELA Review

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What is personification?

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When a writer describes an object as if it were a person, he or she is using personification.

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What is a sonnet?

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A form of poetry that contains fourteen lines and a special rhyme scheme.

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What is a compound-complex sentence?

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A sentence that has two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.

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What is a soliloquy?

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Speech in a literary text or drama in which a character tells the audience how he or she feels by talking to herself or himself.

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What is problem and solution?

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Identifies a problem and proposes one or more solutions.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as.'

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What is a theme in literature?

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The central idea or message that a story conveys.

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What is an alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.

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What is a narrative?

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A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

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What is an antagonist?

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A character or force in conflict with the main character, or protagonist.