Honors Exam Second Semester: Poetry, Drama, and Literary Terms

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a dramatic exaggeration
• a word that resembles the sound it represents

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• repeating the same initial sound in several words
• a contradictory phrase

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that resembles the sound it makes
• comparing two things using "like" or "as"
• a dramatic exaggeration
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.K.5

What is an oxymoron?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• repeating the same initial sound in neighboring words
• words or phrases that are contradictory

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is a metaphor?

• comparing two things using like or as
• repeating the same inital sound in neighboring words
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as
• an extreme exaggeration
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• words or phrases that are contradictory

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Giving human qualities to non-living objects

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A comparison of two seemingly unlike things without using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

A word that spells out a sound

• assonance
• hyperbole
• imagery
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The repetition of two or more of the same beginning consonant sound close together

• simile
• imagery
• consonance
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4