Am. Lit. Final Exam Help

I speak not from ignorance, but from experience.

• Understatement
• Hyperbole
• Litotes
• Antithesis

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

How would allusion be defined?

• a reference to a famous person, place, or event

• words that involve one of the five senses

• two lines working as a unit

• a form or wordplay with similar sounding sounds

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What's a biblical allusion

• A reference to Pallas Athena

• A reference to Edgar Allan Poe

• A reference to Moses parting the red sea

• A reference to Napoleon

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.
• His room looked as if a hurricane came  through.
• A hurricane! AHHH!
• The hurricane screamed through the town. 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"
• A comparison without using "like" or "as"
• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.
• An extreme exaggeration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Descriptive words that appeal to the senses

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• imagery

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

An obvious exaggeration to make a point or add excitement

• assonance
• repetition
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Giving human qualities to non-living objects

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

A comparison of two seemingly unlike things

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Words or phrases that are repeated in writings to give emphasis

• alliteration
• repetition
• assonance
• consonance

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4