LA exam: March 10th

Term 2 Exam Review:

Questions on a short story – read the story and answer questions

Define and be able to recognize through analyzing poems:
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Ballad
Syllable Cinquain
Word Cinquain

Couplet
Limerick
Lyric
Haiku
Alliteration
Imagery
Literal and figurative language
Mood



Term 2 Exam Review: Questions on a short story – read the story and answer questions.
Define and be able to recognize through analyzing poems:
Matching:Lyric: is a song like poem that uses sensory details to express personal feelings.Consonance: repetition of consonance sounds anywhere in thewords (especially at the end of a word). The catcher wore a black jacket because he cared. Alliteration- the repeating of the beginning consonant sounds in words.Example: A flea and a fly got caught in a flue.
Assonance- The repetition of vowel sounds in words. Example: Therain makes the pavement look wavy. - End Rhyme- The rhyming of words at the ends of two or more lines ofpoetry as in the first two lines of Robert Frost’s poem,
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”.Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;Internal Rhyme- The rhyming of words in the middle of lines.Example: After he had made an out, a pout rattled around his mouth.Repetition- The repeating of a word or phrase to add rhythm or toemphasize a certain idea as in this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’spoem, “The Bells”:Keeping time, time, timeIn a sort of Runic rhyme,To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells,Bells, bells, bells---From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.Rhythm- The way the poem flows from one idea to the next. In freeverse poetry the rhythm is usually like the natural flow of spokenlanguage. In traditional forms of poetry, word are often arranged into a definite pattern of accented and unaccented syllables. Limericks, for example, have a definite rhythm pattern.There once was a chef name MauriceWho always used way too much grease.His chicken was fine;His fries were divine,But his dinners just made me obeseHyperbole: n exaggerative statement. E.g.: He died a thousand deaths.Metaphor: comparison between two things without using the words “like” or “as”. E.g.: “He’s a wet blanket”Personification: giving human like attributes to a non-human object. E.g.: “The wave crawled over to me”Simile: A comparison between two things, using the words “like” or “as”E.g.: He ran as fast as a cheetah!Ballad: A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend.Syllable Cinquain: Line 1: 2 syllablesLine 2: 4 syllablesLine 3: 6 syllablesLine 4: 8 syllablesLine 5: 2 syllablesWord Cinquain: 1 word title (noun)2 descriptive words (adjectives)3 words that express action4 words that express feeling1 word (synonyms or reference to title in line 1)Couplet: A two line stanza that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought. (Found in a English Sonnet)Limerick: A light, humorous poem of five lines with the rhyme scheme of aabba.E.g.: A flea and the fly in the flue.Were caught, so what could they do?Said the fly, “Let us flee.”“Let us fly,” said the flea.So they flew thrugh a flaw in the flue.
Lyric: A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that express the thoughts and feelings of the poet. A lyric poem may resemble a song in a form or style.Haiku:A Japanese poem composed of the unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Haiku often reflect on some aspect of nature.Alliteration: The repetition of the same consonant sounds at any place, but often at the beginning of words. Some famous examples of alliteration are tongue twisters.E.g.: She sells sea shells by the sea shore.Imagery: The use of pictures, figures of speech and description to evoke ideas, feelings, objects, action, states of minds. Etc.Literal and figurative language: An Idiom; such as “straight from the horse’s mouth” has a literal meaning, and a figurative meaning. It didn’t literally come straight from the horses mouth, it figuratively did.Mood: The emotion the author is trying to show.