Contemporary Lit Pre and Post Test

Hyperbole is...

• an over the top exaggeration
• repetition of consonants
• iambic pentameter
• when two things are contrasting

What is ALLUSION?

• When words at the END of lines of poetry rhyme with each other.
• A reference to someone or something that is widely known from pop culture, the Bible, history, or other famous works.
• The theme of a particular work of poetry.
• The repetition of letters in lines of poetry.

Alliteration?

• It's not an optical illusion; it just looks like one.
• Dyslexics of the world untie!
• Help stamp out, eliminate and abolish redundancy!
• I’m a sheet slitter.
  I slit sheets.
  I’m the sleekest sheet slitter
  that ever slit sheets.

What is Tone?

• How the author feels about a piece of writing
• How the reader feels about a piece of writing
• The lesson
• How the narrator feels about a piece of writing

What is the "mood" of  a story?

• Emotions audience feels from a given passage.
• The time and place of the story.
• The summary of events of the story.
• The lesson the reader learns from the story.

What are elements in a poem that trigger the reader’s 5 senses?

• hyperbole
• tone 
• imagery
• metaphor

Words that imitate the sounds  of objects they are describing is:

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• personification
• onomatopoeia

Figurative language is

• not understood literally, with a deeper meaning
• words taken at their most basic meaning
• comparison to help understanding
• using the 5 senses in writing

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The pattern of rhymes in a poem is

• rhyme scheme
• repetition
• sound devices
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which one tells a story?

• Name Poem
• Humorous Poem
• Free Verse
• Narrative Poem