ELA 12 Final Review

A writer's or reader's word choice

• dialect
• diction
• dictation
• didactic

the repetition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds. (Ex. struts and frets)

• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• consonance

a story in which the characters, settings, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts

• allegory
• parable
• psalm
• epic

a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society

• quest
• medieval romance
• epic
• myth

language that appeals to the senses

• symbolism
• setting
• personification
• imagery

poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

• free verse
• blank verse
• new verse
• versa

a pause or break within a line of poetry, usually indicated by the natural rhythm of the language. a midline (--) is characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, dividing a four-beat line in half

• caesura
• kenning
• epic hero
• alliterative verse

a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something nonhuman as if it were present and capable of responding

• conventions
• consonance
• apostrophe
• absentia

a contrast of ideas expressed in a grammatically balanced statement. (Ex. And wretches hang that jury men may dine.)

• antithesis
• archetype
• apostrophe
• allusion

an introductory narrative within which one or more of the characters proceed to tell individual stories. (Ex: The Canterbury Tales)

• narrative
• introductory story
• inside story
• frame story