Vocabulary test 18

A poem that tells a story that is often song like

• Haiku

• Lyrical

• Ballad

• Narrative

an outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable

• Fairy Tale

• Tall Tale

• Folk Tale

• Trickster Tale

A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

• Ballad

• Context Clues

• Allegory

• Sonnet

a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song

• Refrain

• Allegory

• Ambiguous

• elegy

open to more than one interpretation

• Stereotype

• diligently

• Ambiguous

• context clues

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

• hesitate

• ridicule

• ambiguous

• Allusion

the ability to understand and share the feelings of another

• empathy

• attributes

• alliteration

• sympathy

Acting or behaving in a certain and often negative manner because others are doing it

• Mob mentality

• stereotype

• fairy tale

• epitome

a person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type

• function

• epitome

• hesitate

• motif

A warning, unfavorable, threatening, of bad omen

• melancholy

• debate

• ominous

• sonnet