Unit 2 Review

Unit 2 Review

Let's begin today's lesson by reviewing the vocabulary from this unit.

Multiple Choice

A category of writing characterized by a particular style, form, or content.

• medium

• poetry

• genre

• book

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The time, place, and social environment in which a story takes place.

• medium

• place

• personification

• setting

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The way information, including a story or other literary work, is communicated and experienced.

• medium

• poetry

• genre

• book

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The use of a repeating consonant sound, usually at the beginning of words in a group.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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Everything a word suggests or implies; the feeling a word gives you.

• denotation

• connotation

• tone

• mood

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An author's decision to use certain words instead of others to create a particular style or tone; also called diction.

• denotation

• word choice

• tone

• mood

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The author's attitude toward a subject.

• mood

• simile

• tone

• point-of-view

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A type of figurative language in which one thing is said to be another thing.

• mood

• simile

• tone

• metaphor

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A group of syllables that make up a unit of poetry.

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• feet

• syllables

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Poetry that does not follow a strict meter, rhythm, or rhyme scheme.

• villanelle

• rhyme scheme

• sonnet

• free verse

Multiple Choice

A type of figurative language in which two, unlike things, are compared using like or as. It can also use than or resembles.

• mood

• simile

• tone

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

A type of figurative language in which nonhuman objects are given human qualities.

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• figurative language

Multiple Choice

Words and phrases that mean something other than what they literally say.

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• figurative language

Multiple Choice

The invention or use of a word that sounds like the thing it stands for. 

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• figurative language

Multiple Choice

A pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds.

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• feet

• syllables

Multiple Choice

A lyric poem that has 19 lines, with a complex structure of five triplets and an ending quatrain following aba and ending in abaa. The first and third line of the first triplet are repeated throughout the poem in a particular pattern.

• sonnet

• villanelle

• free verse

Multiple Choice

The pattern of rhymes in a poem.

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• feet

• syllables

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The feeling a work conveys to its readers.

• mood

• simile

• tone

• metaphor

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A type of figurative language that uses an extreme exaggeration to make a point; also called an overstatement.

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• figurative language

Multiple Choice

A two-syllable pair with the stress on the second syllable.

• iamb

• trochee

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A two-syllable pair with the stress on the first syllable.

• iamb

• trochee

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Two or more words or syllables having a similar or identical sound.

• meter

• rhythm

• feet

• rhyme

Multiple Choice

A lyric poem that has 14 lines, usually follows a set rhyme scheme of ababcdcd efefgg, and often has an unexpected ending.

• sonnet

• villanelle

• free verse

Multiple Choice

A group of lines within a poem: the paragraphs of poetry.

• lines

• poem

• stanza

• syllables