Prose and Poetry Terms

Question 1

The repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in words in close proximity.

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Alliteration

Question 2

a reference that authors assume their readers will recognize.

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Allusion

Question 3

Speaker in a poem addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimate object, or concept as though it is a person.

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Apostrophe

Question 4

The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity.

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Assonance

Question 5

a harsh discordant mixture of sounds.

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Cacophony

Question 6

a person any person, animal, or figure depicted in literary works(protagonist and antagonist)

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Character

Question 7

the struggle between opposing forces.

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Conflict

Question 8

The repetition of identical consonant sounds in different words in close proximity.

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Consonance

Question 9

the author’s word choice (denotation and connotation)

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Diction

Question 10

the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words.

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Euphony

Question 11

a transition in a story to an earlier time, that interrupts the normal chronological order of events.

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Flashback

Question 12

when the author gives you hints about what will happen later on in the story

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Foreshadowing

Question 13

poetry that doesn’t use any strict meter or rhyme scheme

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Free verse

Question 14

exaggeration for effect.

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Hyperbole

Question 15

language that appeals to the senses.

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Imagery

Question 16

placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect

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Juxtaposition

Question 17

A comparison between two unlike things, this describes one thing as if it were something else.

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Metaphor

Question 18

a feeling created in the reader

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Mood

Question 19

A blending of consonant and vowel sounds designed to imitate or suggest the activity being described.

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Onomatopoeia

Question 20

a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings

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Oxymoron

Question 21

the use of similar grammatical structures

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Parallelism

Question 22

Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things.

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Personification

Question 23

the perspective from which the story is told. A story can be told from the ——— of a character or a narrator.

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Point of view

Question 24

the selection is told through one person. It uses pronouns such as I, me/we, us or our

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First person point of view

Question 25

the reader becomes the main character. It uses the pronoun you

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Second person point of view

Question 26

the selection is told from the perspective of a single character. It refers to them by name or uses a third person pronoun such as he, she, or they

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Third person limited point of view

Question 27

the selection is told from the perspective of multiple characters. It uses the following pronouns: he/his, she/her, they/them/their.

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Third person omniscient point of view

Question 28

the action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

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Repetition

Question 29

when words sound alike.

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Rhyme

Question 30

the pattern of end rhyme in a poem.

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Rhyme scheme

Question 31

the time and place in which a story or event takes place

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Setting

Question 32

A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses "like" or "as" to state the terms of the comparison.

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Simile

Question 33

A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic.

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Stanza

Question 34

the use of something concrete to represent something abstract.

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Symbol

Question 35

the author’s attitude towards their subject.

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Tone

Question 36

a universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature. It is a statement that can be applied to multiple other texts and cannot be expressed in a single word.

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Theme

Question 37

the person / people for whom a text is intended

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Audience

Question 38

the author’s reason for writing / creating a text

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Purpose

Question 39

the logical order of ideas. When something has this, all of its parts fit together well. It is created though the following: pronoun reference; parallel structure; repetition of a key word or its synonym; and transitional devices

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Coherence

Question 40

when special importance, value, or prominence given to something. In writing, these devices can help specific elements (example: key ideas) stand out to the reader.

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Emphasis

Question 41

The practice of ending an essay by returning to an image, an idea, or a statement that occurs in the beginning.

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Closing by Return

Question 42

a quality of oneness or togetherness. When a piece of writing is unified, no part of the work is irrelevant. All information in an essay is relevant to the thesis and the topic sentence.

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Unity

Question 43

a sentence or two that states the main idea of a writing assignment.

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Thesis statement

Question 44

a sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs.

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Topic sentence