2024 Finals Review

Which was was your favorite year of high school?

Rhymed pair of lines with sense and grammatical structure completed within the two lines.

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Conversation between characters.

Irony that exists when the reader or audience knows or understands something that a character or speaker does not.

Which of our poems is classified as an elegy?

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another of a different kind.

Alliteration, assonance, and consonance are examples of this device.

Which of the following conveyed the theme of an epiphany?

The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.

The sequence of events that make up a story.

The introduction paragraph to an analysis essay should include:

Expansion of an idea through repetition or elaboration (adds depth and detail.)

When writing a topic sentence analysing a poem, one should write:

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

A reference to a well known person, place, thing, event, literary work, or work of art.

Shows a character’s traits through their actions, thoughts, feelings, words or other character’s observation.

A poem written in honor of someone or something upon its death.

Type of writing that uses humor to make fun of a social issue or highlight a social/political issue.

Short speech delivered by an actor in a play, expressing their thoughts.

Attributing human characteristics to something inanimate.

Which answer has an appropriate use of citation for analysing a poem?

Of the works studied this year, which was full of dramatic irony?

Which of the following poems relied heavily on personification?

What was the main theme of "On Seeing England for the First Time" by Jamaica Kinkaid?

A long lyric poem, modeled after the songs of the Greek chorus.

Long speech, usually made by a character who is alone; reveals private thoughts and feelings to the audience.

Which was Mr. Delatorre's favorite year of high school?

Formal division of lines in a poem, considered a unit, often separated by spaces.

Which one of our early pieces of literature was classified as satire?

A moment of sudden realization or truth for a character.