Final Exam Terms ONLY

The repetition of initial consonant sounds

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• meter

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

deliberate exaggeration

• tone

• hyperbole

• understatement

• style

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme

• narrative

• nonfiction

• free verse

• understatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

• blank verse

• free verse

• lyric poetry

• narrative poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Words used to appeal to the sense of touch.

• tactile imagery

• olfactory imagery

• gustatory imagery

• auditory imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A figure of speech using like or as to compare two apparently dissimilar items.

• simile

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

A statement containing contrasts which at first seems contradictory but is actually true on a deeper level.

• oxymoron

• allusion

• paradox

• personification

Descriptive language that appeals to the sense of hearing.

• auditory

• olfactory

• tactile

• gustatory

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Words used to suggest the opposite of what is meant. Sometimes referred to as sarcasm.

• diction

• verbal irony

• syntax

• imperative

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Which of the following is not a type of irony?

• situational

• historical

• verbal

• dramatic

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3