9th Grade Final Exam Review 2017-18

Literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

An expository writing piece is organized around how many topics?

The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using the word like or as

The rhyme scheme of a sonnet is:

A journal written by Sequoyah about how he created the Cherokee alphabet.

A single line of poetry.

A haiku has:

A text book describing the civil war.

How many lines are in a quatrain?

A literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.

Another student reading a report about the tanks from World War 1.

Your parent describing how Pilgrims came to America.

How many lines does a sonnet have?

What type of poem is usually narrative, typically arranged in quatrains, and tells a story

Has gods and goddesses and often accounts for the creation of something.

A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect.

The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.

A sonnet is written in:

The part of the story where the audience learns the setting and characters.

Rosa Parks describing her role in the Montgomery Alabama bus boycotts

literature in the form of prose, that describes imaginary events and people. (stories & novels)

Unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem

A word that sounds like what it means.

Where the reader or viewer knows something that the character does not know.

A movie showing the life of George Washington.

Expository writing does all of the following except:

A figure of speech in which human qualities are given to an object, animal, or idea.

The attitude the writer takes toward a subject. It reflects the feelings of the writer.

It occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation & continues onto the next line

What is language that communicates meaning beyond the literal meaning of words.

A biography about the second president, John Adams

The time and place of the action of a story.

An occurrence of events that happen at the same time by total accident

A figure of speech making a comparison between two unlike things without like or as.

Writing that is true or factual

The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.

The author’s specific word choice.

Consists of descriptive words and phrases that recreate sensory experiences for the reader.

Attitude or feeling associated with a word, in contrast to the literal (dictionary) definition.

The turning point of the story.

What type of poem doesn't follow any rules and the creation is completely up to the author

An autobiography about Rod Serling.

What is a brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art called?

Irony that exists when someone knowingly exaggerates or says one thing and means another.

Part of the story where the action leads to the climax of the story.

A writer talking about their latest book.

excitement or tension that readers feel waiting to find out how a story ends/conflict resolves

The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet’s placement of emphasis

Interruptions that writers do to insert past events, in order to provide background or context

What is: repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text. Ex: “Ivan will try to light the fire.”

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

An attitude or feeling associated with a word.