English 9 Honors Final Review

What is a sonnet?

• Comparison without using “like” or “as”

• A repeating sound of a vowel in words that are close together in a sentence or verse

  (ex. Mike’s bike has big white stripes)

• A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes usually with ten syllables per line

• An extended speech by one person talking to other characters

What is a couplet?

• Two lines of verse in a play joined in rhyme and and usually in the same meter

• An object, mark, and/or character that represents or stands for something else

• Repetition of similar sounds in the end of syllables

• A rhythmic pattern in poetry that consists of ten syllables, with stress on every other syllable

What is a metaphor?

• Comparison using “like” or “as”

• Attitude character or narrator has towards a subject

• Repetition of similar sounds in the end of syllables

• Comparison without using “like” or “as”

What is an alliteration?

• A repeating sound of a vowel in words that are close together in a sentence or verse

  (ex. Mike’s bike has big white stripes)

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words closely connected or right next to each other

• An object or event is referred to something else that is unrelated 

• Gives human characteristics to nonhuman things or inanimate objects

What is a symbol?

• An object, mark, and/or character that represents or stands for something else

• Everything that happens after the climax, before resolution, deflates plot tension

• Attitude character or narrator has towards a subject

• Reveals details about a character without directly stating them

What is the setting?

• What drives a character to do something

• End of the story, demonstrates that the conflict is resolved

• Where an event takes place

• The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work

What is imagery?

• Everything that happens after the climax, before resolution, deflates plot tension

• Background information within a story or narrative 

• Figurative language that over exaggerates something

• Figurative language that vividly describes something (an event, an object etc.)

What is assonance?

• A repeating sound of a vowel in words that are close together in a sentence or verse

  (ex. Mike’s bike has big white stripes)

• Attitude character or narrator has towards a subject

• Conflict a character has with themselves

• Uses letter sounds to imitate the sound of an object or action

What is a hyperbole?

• Comparison using “like” or “as”

• Reveals details about a character without directly stating them

• Figurative language that over exaggerates something

• Conflict a character has with forces outside themselves

What is an allusion?

• The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work

• An object or event that is referred to something unrelated

• Everything that happens after the climax, before resolution, deflates plot tension

• An extended speech by one person talking to other characters