EOC Milestone Vocabulary Review

Poetry that expresses a person's thoughts or feelings

• ballad

• lyric

• satire

• diction

Word choice in a piece of text

• diction

• syntax

• rhetoric

• satire

A poem that tells a story but is intended to be sung

• lyric

• ballad

• slant rhyme

• free verse

Repetition of constant sounds, but different vowel sounds

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• rhetoric

When the audience is blindsided by

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

Poetry with a specific rhyme scheme, meter, length

• Blank verse

• Fixed form

• Free verse

• End rhyme

Word order in a piece of text

• diction

• syntax

• rhetoric

• ballad

Poetry with no specific rhyme, meter, or length

• end rhyme

• blank verse

• fixed form

• free verse

The art of persuasion

• diction

• syntax

• rhetoric

• assonance

Saying something but means something else

• verbal irony/sarcasm

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• satire