Vocabulary Quiz 1

What is Personification?

• states something is another thing to illustrate an idea

• representation of an abstract quality in human form or human characteristics

• a phrase used so often it loses its meaning

• Use like or as

Idiom

• exaggeration

• repetition of a sound

• saying that means something different than its literal meaning

• a word that sounds like the noise it is describing

Meaphor

• a joke that uses a word that sounds similar but has a different meaning

• giving an animal or object human qualities

• compares two things using like or as

• states something is another thing to illustrate an idea

Foreshadowing

• a short saying offering advice

• a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

• description that appeals to the senses

• a phrase used so often it loses its meaning

Alliteration

• exaggeration

• repetition of a sound

• saying that means something different than its literal meaning

• a word that sounds like the noise it is describing

Describe what "mood" is?

• description that appeals to the senses

• a temporory change in life

• a phrase used so often it loses its meaning

• a temporary state of mind or feeling.

Simile

• states something is another thing to illustrate an idea

• giving an animal or object human qualities

• compares two things using like or as

• a joke that uses a word that sounds similar but has a different meaning

Imagery

• a short saying offering advice

• saying the opposite of something to make a point

• a phrase used so often it loses its meaning

• description that appeals to the senses

Syntax

• the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

• the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

• saying the opposite of something to make a point

• a short saying offering advice

Diction

• states something is another thing to illustrate an idea

• giving an animal or object human qualities

• compares two things using like or as

• the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.