1. Literacy Exam: March 11th and 12th
Vocabulary, Part 1

2. Alliteration
repetition of initial or beginning consonant sounds.

3. Allusion Is a reference to something in literature, history,
or culture.
Egyptian Queen

4. Anachronism
Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.

5. Anaphora
Is the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase usually at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, paragraphs.

6. Archetype
the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies.

7. Aside
Is a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.

8. Autobiography
Is a history of a person’s life written or told by that person.

9. Biography
Is a written account of another person’s life.

10. Cinquain
A five line stanza of syllabic verse with respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables.

11. Concrete Information
Factual material from the text.

12. Consonance
Repetition of two or more consonant sounds in a group of words or line of poetry.

13. Couplet
A pair of rhyming verse lines.

14. Descriptive Writing
Provides details about an object, place, or person purposefully to make the experience depicted come alive for the reader.

15. Dialogue
Conversation between two or more people in a play, novel, short story, etc.

16. Discourse
Purposeful communication between people.

17. Disinformation
Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government or especially by an intelligence agency for the purpose of influencing public opinion or the government in another nation.

18. Dramatic Irony
Is when the audience knows something that the characters do not.

19. Epic Poem
A lyric poem, usually long, on a serious subject and written in a dignified language.

20. Expository Text
A form of writing intended to set forth or explain.

21. Fantasy
Is imaginative or fanciful work that deals especially with supernatural or unnatural events or characters.

22. Fiction
Creative Literature that is invented or imagined, not true

23. First Person Point of View
The POV that uses “I”

24. Free Verse
Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern

25. Genre
A form or style of writing such as narrative (a story), informative (a report), or functional (instructions).

26. Hyperbole
Deliberate exaggeration for effect

27. Idiom
A phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words.
“I lost my head” “Quit beating around the bush”.

28. Info-graphics
Information conveyed by graphic elements, including charts, graphs, etc. Often contained in print media.

29. Irony
When you expect one thing and get another instead

30. Limericks
Fixed form of humorous or nonsense verse with rhyme scheme of aaba.

31. Limited Omniscient Point of View
POV where the author tells the story using third person POV, but limiting himself to complete knowledge of one character.

32. Lyric Poem
A short poem of songlike quality that expresses personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker.

33. QUIZ ON FRIDAY
You will be quizzed over these terms on Friday!