Grade 9 English 1 Academic Vocabulary Quiz 5

Vocabulary Review

• an open clash between two opposing groups

• hyperbole

• a short moral story

• conflict

• using words that imitate the sound they denote

• onomatopoeia

• a conversation between two persons

• dialogue

• extravagant exaggeration

• allegory

Vocabulary Review

• a harmonious state of things and of their properties

• alliteration

• characteristic of a stage performance

• figurative

• a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity

• metaphor

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

• dramatic

• not literal

• consonance

Vocabulary Review

• the basic rhythm in a work of poetry

• counterargument

• a comparison in order to show a similarity

• irony

• When something happens that is not what is expected

• analogy

• the repetition of similar vowel sounds in successive words

• meter

• an opinion to argue against another opinion

• assonance

New Vocabulary

• literature in metrical (sing-songy) form

• personification

• the sequence of events that happen in a story

• poetic

• of or relating to verse, or literature in metrical (sing-songy) form

• poetry

• attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas

• plot

a short story that teaches a moral or a life-lesson

• allegory

• conflict

• counterargument

• irony

This device uses the same consonant at the beginning of each word.

• alliteration

• assonance

• figurative

• metaphor

The shadows danced against the wall.

This sentence attributes human characteristics (dance) to an abstract idea (shadow).

• personification

• metaphor

• conflict

• argument

In the children's story, Little Red Riding Hood, the girl travels through the forest to her grandmother's, finds a wolf pretending to be her grandmother, and at the end the wolf tries to eat the little girl.

This is the structure of actions or events arranged by the author to tell a story.

• metaphor

• analogy

• plot

• monologue

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if I had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost

What type of writing is this?

• poetry

• fiction

• plot

• analogy

When writing is written in verse (poetry) rather than prose (narrative).

• poetic

• plot

• personification

• assonance