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Literature 2010
Unit Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Syntax | Order of words |
| Voice | Speaker in the poem |
| Metaphor | Comparisons between two unlike things without using the words 'like' or 'as' |
| Simile | Comparisons between two things always using the word 'like' or 'as' |
| Personification | Give human qualities to something that is not human |
| Hyperbole | Intentional exaggeration; Saying more than what is meant |
| Rhythm | Regular recurrence of sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | Sound of the word echoes its meaning; sounds like the sound |
| Alliteration | Repetition of first letters |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowels in different words |
| Persona/Speaker | Narrator; often an independent character |
| Tone | Techniques and modes that create attitudes |
| Diction | Word choice and level of language |
| Allusion | Compliments the author pays to readers for their perceptiveness, knowledge and awareness |
| Imagery | Images throughout a work that trigger the mind to fuse together memories of the 5 senses |
| Meter | The number of feet within a line of traditional verse |
| Scansion | Determining the prevailing rhythm and poetic characteristics of a poem |
| Sonnet | A poem of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter |
| Stanza | A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose |
| Rhyme | Repetition of identical or closely related sounds in the syllables of different words |
| Quatrain | A four-line stanza or poetic unit |
| Consonance | The recurrence of similar sounds |