Poetry and Literary Elements

In a piece of literature, the "speaker" is

• The person talking in the text

• The author

• The main character

• the radio

What is first person point of view?

• The text is told from the perspective of "you"

• The text is told from the perspective of "I" or "me"

• The text is told from a detached observer who knows and sees everything.

• The text is told from a narrator with limited knowledge of every character's thoughts.

What is third person omniscient point of view?

• The text is told from from the position of "I" or "me"

• The text is told from the position of "you"

• The narrator tells the story with unlimited knowledge of all things happening.

• The narrator tells the story with limited knowledge of the characters or has insight into only ONE character.

The theme can be defined as

• the overall topic of the text

• a song that represents something important to the text

• the universal message that an author is trying to convey

• the author's attitude about the text

Tone can be defined as

• the author's attitude toward the subject, audience, or character

• word choice

• the way a person talks

• the color of the illustrations

An author creates tone through

• sentence structure

• theme

• word choice

• definitions

Which of these words would be considered "sound devices"?

• tone, theme, mood

• simile, metaphor, hyperbole

• noun, verb, adverb

• rhyme, onomatopoeia, alliteration

An example of onomatopoeia would be

• cat, sat, hat

• pow, buzz, bang

• It was as hot as an oven outside!

• The stuffed bear smiled as the little boy hugged him closely.

Which words help create a negative tone in "A Dream Deferred"?

• dry up, explode, fester

• raisin, sweet, dream

• deferred, load, sun

• run, crust, just

Slang, jargon, and dialect are all forms of

• figurative language

• theme

• diction

• alliteration