humor or ridicule to criticize people's stupidity or vices

Which of the following is an example of analogy?

Pen is to author as brush is to artist.

What does it mean to paraphrase?

Put something into your own words

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

The clouds were cotton candy spun across the sky

A shortened explanation, giving the basic gist

writing that engages the senses

comparison of two unlike things to make concepts more clear

Which of the following is an example of a rhetorical question?

Do you want to pass this class?

a brief passing reference in literature

What is the turn in a sonnet?

Change or shift in thought in the third quatrain or couplet

What is repetition? repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer

repeats the same words or phrases to make an idea clearer

when someone says one thing but means another

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1
What is satire?
making fun of someone for the sake of humor
humor or ridicule to criticize people's stupidity or vices
saying one thing but meaning another
Cartoons
2
What is slant rhyme?
a type of poem
close, but not exact, rhyme
exact rhyme
two lines that don't rhyme
3
What is tone?
the character's attitude
The speaker's attitude
the emotional atmosphere of a work
The author's attitude
4
What does disdain mean?
bad taste
frustration
love
contempt
5
Opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are opposites
Analogy
antithesis
hyperbole
metaphor
6
Which of the following is an example of analogy?
His head was like a potato
She was like a dream
It was a dark and stormy night
Pen is to author as brush is to artist.
7
What does it mean to paraphrase?
Define unknown terms
Put something into your own words
Analyze something
Shorten the text, giving the main ideas
8
What is a stanza?
A paragraph or unit of poetry
Four lines of poetry
The subject of a poem
Two rhyming lines
9
Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?
It was like this one time at band camp
There are milions of stars out tonight
The clouds were cotton candy spun across the sky
She looked like an angel
10
Which of the following is an example of slant rhyme?
sway/away
me/free
love/remove
return/scorn
11
What is the rhyme scheme for Shakespearean sonnets?
aaaabbbbccccdd
aabbccddeeffgg
abcdabcdabcdee
ababcdcdefefgg
12
What is a quatrain?
Two rhyming lines of poetry
A four line stanza of poetry
A six line stanza in a poem
Iambic pentameter
13
A word that has exactly the same or nearly the same meaning as another word is a
denotation
syntax
antonym
synonym
14
What is a summary?
A type of annotation
Analysis
A shortened explanation, giving the basic gist
Putting something into your own words
15
What is imagery?
writing that elaborates on a point
writing that engages the senses
writing that describes a scene
A picture
16
What is an analogy?
Comparison where one element is exaggerated
Vivid description
A comparison using like or as
comparison of two unlike things to make concepts more clear
17
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning is
connotation
denotation
synonym
alliteration
18
Which of the following is an example of a rhetorical question?
Can you pick up your sister after school?
Do you want to pass this class?
How was your morning?
What did you eat for lunch today?
19
What is a couplet?
Four line stanza
Two people in love
two rhyming lines of poetry
Two unrhymed lines of poetry
20
An allusion is
a brief passing reference in literature
When you see something that isn't there
parallelism
repetition of the initial consonant sound
21
What is the turn in a sonnet?
The couplet
Change or shift in thought in the third quatrain or couplet
Imagery
A quatrain
22
The literal, dictionary definition of a word is
Encyclopedia
figurative language
denotation
hyperbole
23
What is repetition? repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer
repeats the same words or phrases to make an idea clearer
Repetition of a consonant sound
Extreme exaggeration
Repetition of a vowel sound
24
What is rhyme scheme?
Not applicable to sonnets
The meter of a poem
Internal rhymes inside a line of poetry
The rhyming pattern of a poem
25
verbal irony is
when someone says one thing but means another
A comparison between two things
the audience knows something the characters don't
something unexpected happens
26
Which of the following is an example of a simile?
Her eyes shone like the sun
I have told you a billion times to clean your room
His backpack was heavier than a bag of bricks
Her fingers were frozen
27
consolation means
a type of fish
comforting someone
going with someone somewhere
loving someone
28
What is a simile?
Comparison that does not use like or as
extreme exaggeration
comparison using like or as
Comparison between to similar objects
29
Who is the speaker of a poem?
the object of the poem
The author
the narrator
the person the poem is written to
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What is hyperbole?
understatement
extreme exaggeration
Evidence to support a claim
an analogy

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