WorksheetsWeek #6 Literary/rhetorical vocabulary
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today." MLK Jr.
This is an example of
anaphora
cacophony
utopia
dispepsia
Harsh or unpleasant sounds
euphony
cacophony
infamy
litany
The repitition of final sounds, or sounds following different vowel sounds in proximate words (made/wood).
assonance
alliteration
imagery
consonance
The concluding section of a work, and a speech that comes at the end of a play usually requesting the appreciation of the audience.
prologue
epilogue
monologue
dialogue
The technique of introducing material into a narrative that prepares the reader for future events, actions, or revelations.
flashback
synechdoche
foreshadowing
hyperbaton
A contradiction or incongruity between appearance or expectation and reality
irony
monotony
cacaphony
foreshadwoing
When someone says something but really menas the opposite
complicated irony
situational irony
verbal irony
dramatic irony
A discrepancy between what someone expects to happen and what actually happens.
complicated irony
verbal irony
situaltion irony
dramatic irony
Incongruity between what appears to be true and what is actually true.
situational irony
complicated irony
dramatic irony
verbal irony
Hiss and sizzle are examples of what?
onomatopoeia
personification
cacophony
hyperbole
A trope in which human characteristics are bestowed upon anything nonhuman, from an abstract idea to a physical force to an inanimate object to a living organism.
dystopia
personification
animation
meiosis
An ideal place that does not exist or a work describing such a place.
hyperbole
myopia
utopia
dystopia
The realtively sustained use of a concrete image or thing used to represent or suggest something more abstract.
symbolism
sylogism
onomatopoeia
epilogue
How an author uses grammatical elements inculding sentence structure and length.
symbolism
diction
friction
syntax
The linguistic choices a writer makes to effectively convey an idea, point of view, or tell a story. Word choice.
utopia
diction
syntax
taxation
