Vocabulary of Rhetoric 4 Review Quiz

a reference to something literary, mythological, historical, or biblical that the author assumes the reader will recognize

• connotation
• denotation
• allusion
• alliteration

a type of irony in which what is expected to happen and what actually happens are not the same.

• dramatic irony
• verbal irony
• situational irony

a type of irony in which suspense is created because the audience knows something the characters do not

• dramatic irony
• verbal irony
• situational irony

What is symbolism?

• a word that mimics a sound
• repetition of consonant sounds
• using symbols to represent something
• Giving human-like traits to non-living objects

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"America is a melting pot" is an example of 

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Foreshadowing
• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as
• Comparing two things in a text
• Using symbols to represent something
• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Hints or clues used by the author to tell what will happen later in the book is a device known as:

• flashback
• simile
• mood
• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is apostrophe in a literary work?

• used to address someone or something that is not there

• the writer of the poem

• a figure of speech that is not literal

• the antonym of a word

serving to complete something

• complementary

• barbarism

• amiable

• demean

When an author uses a "let down" or disappointing turn of events to demonstrate a point in an argument. In literature, it is when the outcome of suspense lets readers down.

• climax

• anticlimax

• pivot

• apostrophe