Segment 2 Exam Study Guide

A line of poetry that moves on to the next line without ending a sentence uses

• end-stop

• meter

• enjambment

• punctuation

Read the excerpt from "Cobwebs" by Emily Dickinson. Then, answer the question that follows.

The spider as an artist

Has never been employed

Though his surpassing merit

Is freely certified…

Select the statement that best explains the author's use of figurative language in the stanza above.

• Dickinson uses an allusion to a famous artist to make a comparison to a spider.

• Dickinson uses onomatopoeia to refer to the sound the spider makes while making a web.

• Dickinson uses meiosis to understate and minimize how talented a spider is at weaving webs.

• Dickinson uses a simile to compare a spider to a talented artist, which makes the reader appreciate the skill of weaving a web.

Which of the following sentences uses parallel structure?

• He couldn't remember the last time he'd been to a parade—it felt like a lifetime ago.

• She had planned the party down to the last detail and was looking forward to the guests arriving.

• The race was about to begin; the runners stretched, crouched, and listened for the starting gun.

• As the friends crowded into the small boat and began to cross the pond, water was filling the vessel.

Used to subtly suggest or indicate something that is going to happen

• Foreshadowing

• Stream of Consciousness

• Pacing

• Juxtaposition

Methods or strategies a writer uses to advance a plot or create tension, mood, and/or tone in a text

• Pacing

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Dialogue

The side-by-side placement of two descriptions, ideas, characters, actions, or events in a text

• Juxtaposition

• Pacing

• Foreshadowing

• Stream of Consciousness

A method of narration in which writing is organized around the internal thoughts of the narrator.

• Stream of consciousness

• Foreshadowing

• Pacing

• Flashback

Used to alter time in order to convey a past event or significant occurrence

• Flashback

• Flashforward

• Pacing

• Foreshadowing

In poetry, white space is

• the intentional use of blank space within the structure of a poem

•  a continuation from one line to the next without punctuation

• the use of beat and rhythm to create meter in a line of poetry.

• the addition of interesting punctuation throughout a poem

Match the purpose of each situation with the rhetorical appeal that would most benefit the communication of the information to the audience.

An essay that argues that drones should be banned in certain areas based on facts and statistics about their interference with commercial airlines.

• Logos

• Ethos