Second Quarter exam for English III Honors

"Life is like a box of Chocolates" (Forest Gump)

A comparison of two things that uses the words "like" or "as"...

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Simile

• metaphor

Alliteration is....

• Rhythm

• Rhyming

• A rare flower found in deepest Africa

• Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words

A colloguialism is ...

• An accent that people have

• When a writer uses figurative language to describe something

• A stanza in a poem that has a certain rhythm and cadence

• Slang, jargon, or a speech pattern specific to a certain geographical area

Whether it is 4 lines long or 15 lines, what is the name for a "verse" in a poem?

• a stanza

• a couplet

• a rhyme

• a line

What is the literary term for the rhythm of a poem as it is read out loud?

• Couplet

• Soliloquy

• Free verse

• Meter

A poem that has no rhyming, no pattern, and no particular structure is...

• blank

• free verse

• pentameter

• meter

What is the literary term for descriptive language that paints a picture in the reader's mind?

• assonance

• alliteration

• imagery

• blank verse

When the last two lines in a poem rhyme, it is called a ...

• couplet

• stanza

• rhythm

• verse

The name of writing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract:

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is one example.

• imagery

• personification

• metaphor

• blank verse

Plagiarism is...

• failure to cite the source of evidence, quotes and other types of intellectual material in an essay

• failure to use proper punctuation in an essay, leading to confusion

• not important in an academic essay

• failure to self-edit an essay before submitting it