Review Quizizz

Idiom

• An event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters, the reader, or the audience
• The general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, or expectation and result.
• The speaker or character who tells a story and directs the type and amount of information the writer reveals
• An expression that is not meant to be taken literally but has a meaning for the speakers of a particular language

Metaphor

• A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
• The use of anything that has its own meaning and reality but also represents abstract ideas
• An expression that is not meant to be taken literally but has a meaning for the speakers of a particular language
• A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true

Point Of View

• A figure of speech in which the words like or as is used to compare two apparently dissimilar items
• The repetition of initial consonant sounds 
• The speaker or character who tells a story and directs the type and amount of information the writer reveals
• The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader

Theme

• The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
• A central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
• The writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject
• A category or type of literature

Hyperbole

• A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
• A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement
• A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
• Words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant

Alliteration

• Words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant
• A central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
• The repetition of initial consonant sounds
• The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage   Writing in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or drama that tells a story

Which of the following sentences is correctly capitalized?

• I went to the store to buy some groceries

• i went to the store to buy some groceries

• I went to the store to buy some groceries.

• i went to the store to buy some groceries.

What change should be made in the following sentence:

Mike saw alot of cows in the pasture, so he took a picture.

• change so to but

• change pasture to pastor

• change alot to a lot

• delete the comma

Which sentence is written correctly? (be careful)

• Whenever some one needs help, Jake is the first to lend a hand.

• Because someone needs help Jake is the first to lend a hand.

• As soon as someone needs help, Jake is the first to lend a hand.

• Jake is the first to lend a hand, when someone needs help.

Which of the following is correctly punctuated?

• The trail ahead was steep but that wasn't why I was dragging my feet.
• The trail ahead was steep but, that wasn't why I was dragging my feet.
• The trail ahead was steep, but that wasn't why I was dragging my feet.