Roper's Milestone Review

Identify the device: Dr. Michaelson's new Range Rover cost him an arm and a leg.

A ______ poem tells a story

This literary period focuses on the exploration of the soul and its darker tendencies; often has supernatural element

The repetition of a grammatical structure in sentences and paragraphs.

Identify the conflict: man vs self

Identify the device: This is the beginning of the end.

This is the literal dictionary meaning of the word

What is situational irony?

What is an epistolary?

When someone makes a reference to another literary work

True or False: Extended Constructed Response is always a narrative prompt

This is the association we have with a word; eg. She's feeling "blue" (blue = sad)

This literary period focuses on a "rebirth" of writers and artists in Harlem, NY in the 1910s-1930s

this is a typical character, action, or situation that appears to represent universal patterns of human nature

Identify the universal theme: man against nature

this term refers to words that have repetition of similar VOWEL sounds but are not rhyming words ex: "apple" "absent"

What's wrong with this sentence: Martha went skiing, sipped lattes by the fire, and ate a lot.

a form of writing that ridicules people, practices, or institutions in order to expose their failings (The Daily Show)

Identify the conflict: man vs man

this term refers to the repetition of one initial sound, usually a consonant, in more than one word ex: "go gray geese"

Identify the device: Our meeting Monday caused me much anxiety.

This is a concrete object that stands for an abstract theme/idea.

Identify the universal theme: when a boy becomes a man, or a girl becomes a woman

This literary period focuses on "local color" by using realistic settings, accents, and dialects

Identify the device: Allergies hit me like a ton of bricks.

How is the sentence best written: I offered a ride to both __ but they refused it.

This literary period focuses on exploring human emotions and depths of the soul

This literary period focuses on earliest American Literature

This literary period focuses on devotion to God, punishment of sins

This literary period focuses on the experimental literature of the 1960s and 1970s

This literary period focuses on writings after WWII up to current day.

We should take our time and do our best on the Milestones.

Third Person Omniscient is

A ____ structure has 5 parts, including the exposition and the resolution

This literary period focuses on rhetorical speeches, arguments, US foundational documents

True or false: there are 3 sections of the American Lit Milestone

When the pronoun matches the noun it's called pronoun - ______ agreement

First, Second, Third Person are examples of ____

This literary period focuses on the relationship between God, nature, and the human soul

Web sites, manuals, surveys, etc. are examples of ____ writing

A ______ poem expresses a person's thoughts or feelings

This literary period focuses on the late 19th and early 20th century, up to and past WWI

True or False: you have up to 150 minutes for Section 1, which includes the extended writing (aka essay) response

Identify the device: Jumbo shrimp; Biggie Smalls; small giant

this term occurs within a line of poetry "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" (used by Poe)

The feeling the reader gets from a work of literature.

First Person is

this term occurs when words include similar, but not identical sounds "bone" "moon"/"ill" "shell" (used by Dickinson)

This literary period focuses on creating characters and conflicts that are realistic

What is verbal irony?

Identify the device: The gentle ocean waves danced across the shoreline.

A ______ poem tells a story but is often of folk origin, intended to be sung

Adding -ly to words forms this part of speech

Identify the universal theme: the security of a homestead, shelter

True or False: You can have scratch paper to write on during the test.

What is sarcasm?

Identify the device: Your name is Adam? Oh, that's "original."

What is dramatic irony?

True or False: you have up to 80 minutes for Section 2

This helps the reader to see, feel, hear, etc. the action of a story.

The main idea of a piece of literature.

This is an author's word choice.

This is the attitude or feeling the author has towards the subject of the writing

this term refers to words that have similar CONSONANT sounds but different vowel sounds ex: "pick" "sack" "duck"

A ______ is a poem that is fourteen lines long, each line written in iambic pentameter

A __ is an incorrect assumption, and is the basis of an argument, causing a flawed conclusion.

Identify the device: "Where were you? I called you A THOUSAND TIMES."

Third Person Limited is

An "educated guess" one makes about a text based on what has been read.

Adding -able to words forms this part of speech

True or False: your extended writing response will be argumentative OR expository

True or False: you have up to 100 minutes for Section 3

Identify the conflict: man vs nature

Identify the universal theme: a person starts out with nothing but works hard to achieve their goals

What a writer is trying to prove or defend.

This is a text with two levels: a surface level and a symbolic level. ex: The Crucible (Salem Witch Trials/Red Scare)

this term refers to the pattern of end rhymes in a poem

A story written about one's own life is called a(n)