Unit 1

Question 1

We real cool

Answer 1

Gwendolyn Brooks

Question 2

The ex-Basketball player

Answer 2

John Updike

Question 3

The pedestrian

Answer 3

ray bradbury

Question 4

One Art

Answer 4

Elizabeth Bishop

Question 5

The lottery

Answer 5

shirley jackson

Question 6

Everyday use

Answer 6

Alice walker

Question 7

connotation

Answer 7

the associations people make with words that go beyond the literal or dictionary definition 暗示

Question 8

simile

Answer 8

the practice of drawing parallels or comparisons between two unrelated and dissimilar things, people, beings, places and concepts and marked by the use of “like” or “as”比喻

Question 9

Imagery

Answer 9

he use of words or phrases tp create “mental image” for the reader; helps the reader to visualize more realistically the auther’s writing

Question 10

analogy

Answer 10

A literary device that helps to establish a realtionship based on similarities between two concepts or ideas类比

Question 11

irony

Answer 11

the experssion of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humor or emphasis

Question 12

Diction

Answer 12

the writer’s word choics

Question 13

free verse

Answer 13

A literary device that can be difined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter, rhythm; does not rhyme with fixed forms

Question 14

Diction

Answer 14

the writer’s word choice

Question 15

onomatopoeia

Answer 15

the use of words to imitate the sounds they describe拟声

Question 16

Assonance

Answer 16

Repetition of sounds produced by vowels within a sentence or phrase谐音

Question 17

parallelism

Answer 17

The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter类似，对应

Question 18

Allusion

Answer 18

A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historic, cultural, literary, biblical, or poltical significance暗示

Question 19

symbol

Answer 19

contains a level of meaning in whichh one thing represents or stands for something else

Question 20

Apostrophe

Answer 20

A figure of speech in which someobe abesnt, dead, or nonhuman is addressed as if alive and present and able to reply

Question 21

conseonance

Answer 21

the repetion of consonant sounds in a line of poetry

Question 22

rhyme

Answer 22

Correspondence/similarities of sound between words or the ending of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry

Question 23

figure of speech

Answer 23

a non-literal expression

Question 24

hyperbole

Answer 24

the use of specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize a statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect夸张

Question 25

syntax

Answer 25

the order of words

Question 26

Alliteration

Answer 26

Literary device where words are used in quick succession and begin with the letters belonging to the same sound group头韵

Question 27

metaphor

Answer 27

A comparison between two unlike things(doesn't use "like" or "as"

Question 28

oxymoron

Answer 28

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear together(ex: bittersweet)矛盾修辞

Question 29

sutiation

Answer 29

condition in which a poem takes place

Question 30

speaker

Answer 30

the narrator/ voice of the poem

Question 31

rhythm

Answer 31

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound

Question 32

personification

Answer 32

refers to the practics of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena, and animals

Question 33

tone

Answer 33

the attitude the writer has toward to a subject

Question 34

refrain

Answer 34

a verse, line or a group of repeated lines that appear at the end pf a stanza or where a poem divides into different sections 叠句

Question 35

Denotation

Answer 35

refers to the use of dictionary definition of literal meann of a word

Question 36

figurative language

Answer 36

A word or phrase(language) that uses words or expressions with a meaning taht is different from the literal interpretation

Question 37

repetition

Answer 37

repeating a word or phrase for emphasis

Question 38

enjambment

Answer 38

carrying a thought from one line of poetry into the nex