STUDY GUIDE

  1. What is a metaphor?
  1. Provide an example of a metaphor
  1. What is a simile?
  1. Provide an example of a simile
  1. Define personification.
  1. Provide an example of personification
  1. Define onomatopoeia
  1. Provide an example of onomatopoeia
  1. What is alliteration?
  1. Provide an example of alliteration
  1. What is assonance?
  1. Provide an example of assonance
  1. What is consonance?
  1. Provide an example of consonance.
  1. What is repetition?
  1. What is a rhyme scheme?
  1. What is an allusion?
  1. Provide an example of an allusion
  1. What is figurative language?
  1. What is a hyperbole?
  1. Provide an example of a hyperbole.
  1. What is an extended metaphor?
  1. What is irony?
  1. Provide an example of irony.
  1. What is imagery?
  1. What is a symbol?
  1. Provide an example of a symbol?
  1. What is a couplet?
  1. What is an oxymoron?
  1. Provide an example of an oxymoron.
  1. What is a Haiku? Provide the specific requirements
  1. What is a limerick?
  1. What is an ode?
  1. What is a ballad?
  1. What is a sonnet?
  1. How many lines must a sonnet have?
  1. What is iambic pentameter?
  1. What are the three types of sonnets?
  1. Provide the rhyme schemes for the above three types of sonnets?
  1. How is a Shakespearean sonnet broken up?
  1. How is an Italian sonnet broken up.
  1. What are the two sections called?
  1. What is the responsibility of each section?
  1. How many lines is an octave____, sestet_____, couplet ____ and quatrain____?
  1. What is the difference between non-fiction and fiction?
  1. List at least three types of non-fiction reading materials.
  1. What type of letter is intended for publication in newspapers and magazines.
  1. What is objective writing?
  1. What is subjective writing?
  2. What is an autobiography?
  1. What is a biography?
  1. What can biographies offer that autobiographies cannot?
  1. What is an independent clause?
  1. Provide an example of an independent clause.
  1. What is a dependent/subordinate clause?
  1. Provide an example of a dependent/subordinate clause.
  1. What is are the singular indefinite pronouns?
  1. What are the plural indefinite pronouns?
  1. Is the subject singular or plural if it is joined by “and”?
  1. Is the subject singular or plural if it is joined by “or” “nor” ?
  1. When a singular subject is connected by or or nor to a plural subject, it should agree with the ______?
  2. The______verb form is usually used for units of measurement.
  3. Use a ______verb with sums of money or periods of time.
  4. In sentences beginning with there is or there are, the subject ______the verb. Since there is not the subject, the verb agrees with what follows.
  5. What can the subject NEVER be a part of?
  1. What is an antecedent?
  1. What are the rules of pronoun antecedent agreement?
  1. What are the singular pronouns?
  1. What are the plural pronouns?
  1. What is a fragment?
  1. Give an example of a fragment.
  1. When is a semicolon used?
  1. Provide an example of a semicolon being used correctly?
  1. What is Active Voice?
  1. What is Passive Voice?
  1. Write 2 sentences: One using passive voice and one using active voice.
  1. What are the 5 Steps to the 5-S strategy?
  1. What are the two types of sentences most frequently used in writing?

79. Be sure to know the syntax technique terms as well as be able to identify them in a sentence or passage.

Anaphora

Epiphora

Asyndeton

Polysyndeton

Hyphora

Rhetorical Question

Anastrophe

Ethos

Pathos

Logos

Rhetoric