Vignette Review

What is a vignette?

• a brief description that brings strong images, memories, or feelings to mind and makes readers feel as if they are in the moment

• a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one

• a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral

• a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is an exaggeration in literature known as?

For example, "George said sleepily, 'We'll get red and blue and green rabbits, Lennie. Millions of ‘em.'"

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• repetition

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What is giving an inanimate object or abstract idea human-like qualities and characteristics called?

For example, "When the sound of the footsteps had died away, George turned on Lennie."

• personification

• metaphor

• internal dialogue

• sensory details

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the comparing of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" called?

For example, "Suddenly Lennie appeared out of the brush, and he came as silently as a creeping bear moves."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is it called when the same consonant sound is repeated?

For example, "The dove’s wings whistled over the water."

• repetition

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• sensory details

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the repeating of a word, phrase, or sentence known as?

For example, "He’s a nice fella," said Slim. "Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella."

• sensory details

• alliteration

• repetition

• external dialogue

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What is the direct comparison of two unlike things known as?

For example, "Lennie covered his face with huge paws and bleated with terror."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is called when a writer uses specific words that readers can see, hear, taste, smell, and feel?

For example, "The sun square was on the floor now, and the flies whipped through it like sparks. A sound of jingling harnesses and the croak of heavy-laden axles sounded from outside."

• metaphor

• repetition

• sensory details

• simile

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

How is a conversation "shown"?

For example, "I ain’t got no people," George said. "Seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone... After a long time they get mean. They get wantin’ to fight all the time." "Yeah, they get mean," Slim agreed. "They get so they don’t want to talk to nobody."

• simile

• external dialogue

• personification

• internal dialoge

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What is called when a character's thoughts are shown?

For example, I done a real bad thing. I shouldn’t of did that. George’ll be mad.

• internal dialogue

• external dialogue

• sensory details

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6