Midterm Review

What is a personification?

• 
  when you give human characteristics to something non-human

• sarcasm

• an exaggeration

• 
  comparing something using like or as

Which of the following is an example of a personification?

• the lamp was as bright as the sun

• the alarm clock jumps to life at 6:00am

• she was so hungry she could eat a hippo

• the umbrella was as colourful as a rainbow

What is being personified?

“The plate jumped from his hand.”

• hands

• a plate

• jumping

• a kitchen

What is diction?

• The words an author chooses to use

• Dictionary, but that word is hard to spell

• The dictionary definition of a word

• The meaning of a word in other languages

What is connotation?

• The feeling the word gives.

• The literal meaning of a word.

• What is life?

• Sentence structure.

Of the 4 words below, which has the MOST POSITIVE connotation?

• 
  attractive

• good-looking

• 
  gorgeous

• pretty

What is syntax?

• Translation of a foreign language

• Arrangements of word in a sentence

• Tax on sin

• Dictionary definition of a word

An author's purpose is...

• the reason an author writes

• the way the author sees and interprets the world

• author's way of life

• author's sense of humor

Which is NOT an author's purpose for writing?

• Entertain

• Illustrate

• Inform

• Persuade/Convince

Last summer I learned to play tennis, to swim, and __________.

• riding a horse

• to ride a horse

• rides a horse

• ride a horse