1. Senior Language Arts Spring 2013
Final Exam Review
Senior Language Arts
Spring 2013

2. Alliteration Repetition of initial consonant sounds
“The soul selects her own society.”
--Emily Dickinson

3. Anecdote
Short, amusing story

4. Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables The moon rose over an open field.

5. Cliché
Overused expression
Think outside the box.

6. Conflict
Struggle between opposing forces * Internal * man vs. himself * External * man vs. man * man vs. nature

7. children / kids / youths / brats
Diction
Word choice
children / kids / youths / brats
eat / dine / wolf down
canine / dog / mutt

8. Poetry that describes an emotion
Lyric Poetry
Poetry that describes an emotion

9. Poetry that tells a story
Narrative Poetry
Poetry that tells a story

10. Paradox Statement that seems to contradict itself but doesn’t
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
--Macbeth

11. Personification Giving human traits to animals or objects
The wind whispered in the trees.

12. a question that one is not expected to answer
Rhetorical Question
a question that one is not expected to answer
What were you thinking?

13. Pattern of rhyming lines
Rhyme Scheme
Pattern of rhyming lines
Whose woods these are I think I know A
His house is in the village, though A
He will not see me stopping here B
To watch his woods fill up with snow A
--Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

14. Work that mocks someone or something
Satire
Work that mocks someone or something

15. Something that represents itself and something else
Symbol
Something that represents itself and something else

16. Syntax Word order Inverted syntax:
“Whose woods these are I think I know.”
Instead of:
I think I know whose woods these are.

17. Voice
Unique way in which an author or narrator expresses himself or herself.