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Reading unit quiz
Term | Definition |
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What is the definition of tone? | How the author creates the overall feeling of a story. |
What is the definition of mood? | What the reader feels from a text of literature. |
What is denotation? | The dictionary meaning of a word. |
What is connotation? | The positive or negative feeling that a word invokes. |
What is poetry? | Words that are organized into lines and stanzas. |
What are prose? | Words are organized into sentences and paragraphs. |
How do you determine rhyme scheme? | Finding the pattern of rhymes ending in lines of a poem. |
What is a stanza? | Group of lines in a poem. |
What is a line? | A single row of words in a poem. |
What are couplets? | Pair of lines that rhyme. |
What is repetition? | A repeating a word, phase, or sentence in poetry. |
What's a simile | Comparing two unlike terms using two words that are "like" or "as". |
What's a metaphor? | Comparing two unlike terms with one item becoming another. |
What's personification? | Type of metaphor that gives human traits to objects. |
What's a onomatopoeia? | Words that imitate sounds. |
What's a hyperbole? | An unreal extreme exaggeration. |
What's alliteration? | A number of words that have the same sound. |
What's a idiom? | A common saying that has an understanding meaning, yet literary means something else. |
What's an allusion? | A reference to a known person, place, thing, or idea to make a point. |