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language arts final
poetry, vocab. , texts and writing
| all | all |
|---|---|
| what is a metaphor | comparing two things without using like or as |
| what is personification | giving human like characteristics to an inanimate object |
| what is onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sounds echo their meaning .examples would be boom and smack |
| what is assonance | the repetition of a vowel sound in a sentence of non rhyming words |
| what is repetition | the repeating of a phrase or word in a poem or text |
| what is alliteration | two or more words using the same consonant is the first letter in a sentence of non rhyming words |
| what is a simile | comparing two or more things using like or as |
| what is allusion | referring to a famous person or place in a text |
| what is a hyperbole | an exaggeration of something an example would be I'm so hungry I could eat a cow |
| what is an oxymoron | two contradictory ideas within the same phrase |
| what is imagery | using the five sences to describe something |
| how many lines are in a sonnet | 14 |
| what is the rhyme scheme of a sonnet | ABABCDCD |
| how many syllables per line are there in a sonnet | 10 |
| what is a couplet | two lines within a poem that rhyme with each other |
| what is enjambment | a thought or sentence in a poem going on for more than one line |
| what is the poem Casey at the bat about by Ernest Lawrence Thayer | it in about a really good baseball player during one game Strikes out |
| what is the poem Cinderella about by Sylvia Plath | it is about a girl who is at a ball with scarlet heels and when the clock strikes 12 she is nervous |
| what is the poem there will come soft rains by Sara Teasdale about | this poem is about how nature would not notice or not care if humankind perished |
| what is the poem the moment by Margaret Atwood about | this poem is about how the earth claims that humans do not own it but it owns humans |
| what is mood | the feeling the author gives to the reader |
| what is diction | word choice |
| what does folorn mean | pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely |
| what does convivial mean | friendly lively and enjoyable |
| what does dwindle mean | to diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength |
| what does Muse mean | to be absorbed in fact |
| what does flimsy mean | unstable |
| what does pendulum mean | a pendulum is the thing that swings back and forth every seconds in a grandfather clock |
| what does recede mean | to go or move back or further away from a previous position |
| what does subtly mean | to be delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe |
| what does transition mean | the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another |
| what does heady mean | to be potent or intoxicating |
| what does agony mean | a large amount of pain |
| what does reservior mean | a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply |
| what does suppress mean | to forcibly put an end to |
| what does improvise mean | to make up on a whim |
| what does revert mean | to return to a previous state or condition |
| what does perfunctorily mean | performed admirably as a routine duty |
| what does redundant mean | not or no longer needed or useful |
| what does righteous mean | morally right or justifiable |
| what does simultaneous mean | at the same time |
| what does translucent mean | allowing light but not detailed images to pass through |
| what does culminate mean | to reach a climax or point of highest development |
| what does prestigious mean | inspiring respect and admiration |
| what does perception mean | the ability to see hear or become aware of something through the senses |
| what does recessed mean | to be temporarily suspended |
| what does terse mean | to be abrupt for sparing in the use of words |
| what is dark they were and golden eyed by Ray Bradbury about | it is that in the future where hundreds of people go to live on Mars and their skin turns dark and their eyes turn gold and they turned into a Martians |
| what is the only girl in the world for me by Bill Cosby about | it is about Bill Cosby and his so called first love |
| what is it's not about the bike by Lance Armstrong about | it is about Lance Armstrong and his nurse Latrice when he was going through cancer and how she helped him out a lot |
| what is an American childhood about by Annie Dillard | it is about when Annie dillard was a kid she and her friends would throw snowballs with ice in them at cars and one day it broke a drivers windshield and he chased them and when he finally got them all he did was scold them |
| what is the writing process | Prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, evaluating, publishing Pizza doesn't really even eat pepperonies |
| How do you show citations | In parentheses you put tjhe authors last name or the article name and the page number at the end of the quote |
| How do you summarise | You take out all of the unimportant details and just leave in the important parts |
| How do you paraphrase | You put it in your own words while keeping it close to the same length as the original text |
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