Grade 9 English 1 Academic Vocabulary Quiz 5

Vocabulary Review

• an open clash between two opposing groups

• onomatopoeia

• extravagant exaggeration

• hyperbole

• a short moral story

• conflict

• a conversation between two persons

• allegory

• using words that imitate the sound they denote

• dialogue

Vocabulary Review

• characteristic of a stage performance

• dramatic

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

• consonance

• not literal

• alliteration

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

• metaphor

• a harmonious state of things and of their properties

• figurative

Vocabulary Review

• When something happens that is not what is expected

• irony

• the basic rhythm in a work of poetry

• counterargument

• a comparison in order to show a similarity

• meter

• an opinion to argue against another opinion

• assonance

• the repetition of similar vowel sounds in successive words

• analogy

New Vocabulary

• the sequence of events that happen in a story

• personification

• literature in metrical (sing-songy) form

• plot

• attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas

• poetic

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

• poetry

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