Advanced Composition Benchmark Review

Tone

• giving human qualities to an object, animal, or idea

• a contradiction between what is said and what is meant.

• attitude towards the text and audience

• feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Personification

• a contradiction between what is said and what is meant.

• giving human qualities to an object, animal, or idea

• attitude towards the text and audience

• feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Verbal Irony

• giving human qualities to an object, animal, or idea

• feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader

• attitude towards the text and audience

• a contradiction between what is said and what is meant.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Mood

• feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader

• a contradiction between what is said and what is meant.

• attitude towards the text and audience

• giving human qualities to an object, animal, or idea

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Paradox

• figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using like or as

• a contradiction that is actually true

• the use of humor, irony, exaggeration to expose and criticize a problem in society

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Satire

• the use of humor, irony, exaggeration to expose and criticize a problem in society

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

• a contradiction that is actually true

• figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using like or as

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Metaphor

• a contradiction that is actually true

• figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using like or as

• the use of humor, irony, exaggeration to expose and criticize a problem in society

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Simile

• figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using like or as

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

• the use of humor, irony, exaggeration to expose and criticize a problem in society

• a contradiction that is actually true

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Rhyme Scheme

• places characters at odds with forces outside themselves

• the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

• occurs when a character in literature experiences tension within themselves

• the time, place, and environment in which a story occurs

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Internal Conflict

• places characters at odds with forces outside themselves

• the time, place, and environment in which a story occurs

• the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

• occurs when a character in literature experiences tension within themselves

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3