Literacy Exam: March 11 th and 12 th

1. Literacy Exam: March 11thand 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, an dtwo 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 • Aphrase 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.