Literacy Exam: March 11 th and 12 th

Literacy Exam: March 11th and 12th

Vocabulary, Part 1

Alliteration repetition of initial or beginning

consonant sounds.

Allusion Is a referenceto something inliterature, history,or culture.

Egyptian Queen

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.

Anaphora Is the deliberate repetition of a word or

phrase usually at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, paragraphs.

Archetype the original pattern or model of which all

things of the same type are representations or copies.

Aside Is a line spoken by an actor to the

audience but not intended for others on the stage.

Autobiography Is a history of a person’s life written or

told by that person.

Biography Is a written account of another person’s

life.

Cinquain A five line stanza of syllabic verse with

respectively, two, four, six, eight, an dtwo syllables.

Concrete Information

Factual material from the text.

Consonance Repetition of two or more consonant

sounds in a group of words or line of poetry.

Couplet A pair of rhyming

verse lines.

Descriptive Writing Provides details about an object, place,

or person purposefully to make the experience depicted come alive for the reader.

Dialogue Conversation between two or more

people in a play, novel, short story, etc.

Discourse Purposeful communication between

people.

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.

Dramatic Irony Is when the audience knows something

that the characters do not.

Epic Poem A lyric poem, usually long, on a serious

subject and written in a dignified language.

Expository Text A form of writing intended to set forth or

explain.

Fantasy Is imaginative or fanciful work that deals

especially with supernatural or unnatural events or characters.

Fiction Creative Literature that

is invented or imagined, not true

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

Free Verse Verse that does not follow a fixed

metrical pattern

Genre A form or style of writing such as

narrative (a story), informative (a report), or functional (instructions).

Hyperbole Deliberate exaggeration for effect

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”.

Info-graphics Information conveyed by graphic

elements, including charts, graphs, etc. Often contained in print media.

Irony When you expect one thing and get

another instead

Limericks Fixed form of

humorous or nonsense verse with rhyme scheme of aaba.

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.

Lyric Poem A short poem of

songlike quality that expresses personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker.