Grade 9 Academic Vocabulary Quiz 3

Review Past Vocabulary

• alliteration

• a short moral story

• counterargument

• characteristic of a stage performance

• allegory

• an opinion offered in opposition to another

• argument

• a dispute where there is a strong disagreement

• dramatic

• use of the same letter at the beginning of each word

Review Past Vocabulary

• consonance

• characteristic of a stage performance

• conflict

• an open clash between opposing groups

• analogy

• the repetition of similar vowels in successive words

• assonance

• a harmonious state of things and of their properties

• dramatic

• a comparison in order to show a similarity

New Vocabulary

• irony

• a conversation between two people

• figurative

• incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens

• dialogue

• extravagant exaggeration

• hyperbole

• not literal

a conversation between two people

• dialogue

• figurative

• hyperbole

• irony

not literal

• dialogue

• figurative

• hyperbole

• irony

extravagant exaggeration

• dialogue

• figurative

• hyperbole

• irony

incongruity between what is expected and what happens

• dialogue

• figurative

• hyperbole

• irony

A(n) ​ (a)   is a dispute where there is a strong disagreement. A(n) ​ (b)   is an open clash between two opposing groups.

• argument
• conflict
• dramatic
• dialogue
• irony

As cold waters to a thirsty soul,

So is good news from a far country.

• allegory

• argument

• analogy

• irony

Mike likes his new bike.

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• figurative