Language Terms 1SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program

#1 Identify the device being used: “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” (The Wizard of Oz) 2SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#1 Answer Polysyndeton The device of repeating conjunctions in close succession. 3SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#2 Identify the device being used: “Of the people, by the people, for the people” (Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address) 4SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #2 Epistrophe The repetition of a word or group of words at the end of successive phrases, clauses, verses, or sentences 5SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#3 Identify the term/device: A pleasing arrangement of sounds 6SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #3 Euphony 7SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#4 Identify the device being used: “Heard melodies are sweet.” (John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”) 8SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #4 Synaesthesia The use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another 9SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#5 Identify the device being used: “All the other lads there were / Were Itching to have a bash.” (Philip Larkin, “Send No Money”) 10SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #5 Colloquialism An informal or slang expression, especially in the context of formal writing 11SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#6 Identify the term/device: The atmosphere of a work of literature; the emotion created by the work 12SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #6 Mood 13SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#7 Identify the device being used: Saying “ethnic cleansing” instead of “genocide” 14SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #7 Euphemism The use of less offensive language to express unpleasant or vulgar ideas, events, or actions 15SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#8 Identify the term/device: The person (sometimes a character) who tells a story; the voice assumed by the writer. Not necessarily the author (but it can be). 16SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #8 Narrator 17SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#9 The following are examples: –Richard Wright’s Black Boy –Helen Keller’s The Story of My Life –Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl 18SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #9 Autobiography The narrative of a person’s life, written by that person. 19SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#10 Identify the device being used: The moon smiled down at us as we sat by the river. 20SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #10 Personification The use of human characteristics to describe animals, objects, or ideas. 21SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#11 Identify the term/device: The character an author assumes in a written work. 22SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #11 Persona 23SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#12 Identify the term/device: An author’s individual way of using language to reflect his or her own personality and attitudes. An author communicates this through tone, diction, and sentence structure. 24SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #12 Voice 25SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#13 Identify the term/device: The works of Homer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Bronte and other great writers. 26SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #13 Canon An evolving group of literary works considered essential to a culture’s literary tradition. 27SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#14 The following are examples: –Richard the Lionheart –Shoeless Joe Jackson –The Brooklyn Bomber 28SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #14 Epithet An adjective or phrase that describes a prominent or distinguishing feature of a person or thing 29SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#15 Identify the device being used: In Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, the nightmares Lockwood has the night he sleeps in Catherine’s bed prefigure later events in the novel. 30SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #15 Foreshadowing An author’s deliberate use of hints or suggestions to give a preview of events or themes that do not develop until later in the narrative. 31SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#16 Identify the device being used: The ship was crewed by fifty hands. 32SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #16 Synecdoche A figure of speech in which a part of an entity is used to refer to the whole (In this case, “hands” alludes to the people—all of the people—manning the ship.) 33SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#17 Identify the term/device: A technique of detachment that draws awareness to the discrepancy between words and their meanings, between expectation and fulfillment, or, most commonly, between what is and what seems to be. 34SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #17 Irony (Five types = verbal, situational, romantic, dramatic/tragic, and cosmic) 35SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#18 Identify the term/device: Specific facts or examples used to support a claim in a piece of writing. 36SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #18 Evidence 37SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#19 Identify the device being used: “Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.” (Shakespeare, Sonnet 129) 38SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #19 Parallelism The use of similar grammatical structures or word order in two or more sentences, clauses, or phrases to suggest a comparison or contrast between them. 39SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#20 Identify the term/device: The art of persuasion, or the art of speaking or writing well. This involves the study of how words influence audiences. 40SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #20 Rhetoric 41SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#21 Identify the term/device: The main idea, or principal claim, that is supported in a work of nonfiction. 42SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #21 Thesis statement 43SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#22 Identify the term/device: The author’s attitude toward the subject or characters of a story or poem, or toward the reader. 44SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #22 tone 45SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#23 Identify the device being used: Asking the wealthy nations of the world to feed the impoverished nations is like asking people on a full lifeboat to take on more passengers. 46SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #23 Analogy A comparison based on a specific similarity between things that are otherwise unlike, or the inference that if two things are alike in some ways, they will be alike in others. Often analogies draw a comparison between something abstract and something more concrete or easier to visualize. 47SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#24 Identify the device being used: “And all men kill the thing they love.” (Oscar Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”) 48SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #24 Paradox A statement that seems absurd or even contradictory but that often expresses a deeper truth. 49SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

#25 Identify the device being used: My teacher is a total psychopath. 50SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA

Answer #25 Hyperbole Excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact. 51SNRPDP: Common Core State Standards ELA