Academic SLO terms Semester 1 2017

Summarizing is

Which term refers to an object that represents or stands for something beyond itself?

Which of the following terms describes a type of music, writing, or film?

“They passed me by, like beaten dogs” is an example of?

A narrative is any type of [fill-in-the-blank] and can be fiction or nonfiction.

Night, “The Pit and Pendulum”, and “The Raven” are all told from what point of view?

“The world became a hermetically sealed cattle car” is an example of?

Which of the following refers to the genre of writing based on facts, real events and people?

Short stories and novels are examples of what type of genre?

What is a "paragraph" or a group of lines called in poetry?

What is everyday speech in written form and 99% of what we read every day?

“In the deepest slumber—no! In delirium—no! In a swoon—no! In death—no!” is an example of?

Tone is defined as

11. What device uses descriptive language that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, etc)?

A term that refers to such devices as metaphor/simile, symbol, hyperbole, personification?

What is a narrator referred to in poetry?

" . . . the candles seemed white slender angels” is an example of what literary device?

Foreshadowing is

What type of writing is often written in stanzas, has a speaker, and is also called verse?

“Oh! For a voice to speak!--oh! Horror!--oh! Any horror but this!” is an example of?

What does it mean to paraphrase a text?

“And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note …” is an example of?

News articles, autobiographies, and essays are examples of

In "The Raven" and Night, the raven and night are used as [fill-in-blank] to represent death.

Poetry is a synonym for which of the following?

“The bird perched on the pallid bust of Pallas” is an example of what literary device?

"Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" is an example of?