Vocabulary Quiz #17

the quality of being open to more than one interpretation

• allegory
• analogy
• ambiguity
• aesthetics

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a comparison between two things for the purpose of explanation

• assonance
• consonance
• allegory
• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language

• syntax
• synthesize
• archetype
• transition

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the state of being incongruous or out of keeping; inappropriate

• transition
• hyperbole
• ambiguity
• incongrutity

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.5.6

a story or poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden moral meaning

• allegory
• analogy
• archetype
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

words, phrases, or sentences that connect one topic or idea to another in a paper or essay in a smooth, coherent way

• incongruity
• acronym
• transition
• synthesize

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• ambiguity

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word

• archetype
• acronym
• allusion
• aesthetics

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology

• allusion
• archetype
• aesthetics
• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

an indirect reference by one text to another text such as myth, legend, or the Bible

• archetype
• allegory
• allusion
• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4