ELA Final Exam

Metaphor

From the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, what figurative language is, “Nature’s first green is gold”, “Her early leaf’s a flower”?

Alliteration

From the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, what figurative language is, “Her hardest hue to hold”, “So dawn goes down to day”?

Allusion

From the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, what figurative language is, “So Eden sank to grief”, “Nature’s first green is gold”?

Personification

From the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, what figurative language is, “So Eden sank to grief”, “Then leaf subsides to leaf”?

Simile

From the poem, “Harlem”, what figurative language is, “Like a raisin in the sun”, “Like rotten meat”?

Alliteration

From the poem, “Harlem”, what figurative language is, “Sugar over - like a syrupy sweet”, “Does it dry up”?

Imagery

From the poem, “Harlem”, what figurative language is, “Like a raisin in the sun”, “Or crust and sugar over”?

Metaphor

From the poem, “O Captain! My Captain!”, what figurative language is, “The ship has weather’d every rack”, “The prize we sought is won”?

Alliteration

From the poem, “O Captain! My Captain!”, what figurative language is, “For you the flag flung”, “The ship is anchor’d safe and sound”?

Personification

From the poem, “Landscape With The Fall of Icarus”, what figurative language is, “The edge of the sea concerned with itself”?

Alliteration

From the poem, “Landscape With The Fall of Icarus”, what figurative language is, “Sweating in the sun”?

Mood

From the poem, “Landscape With The Fall of Icarus”, what type of poetic element is, “A splash quite unnoticed/this was/Icarus drowning”?

Alliteration

Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginnings of several words of a line of poetry or a sentence

Allusion

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

Ballad

Songlike poem that tells a story usually dealing with adventure and romance

Character trait

Words that describe a character's personality or qualities that make them who they are

Elegy

A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

Exaggeration/Hyperbole

The obvious stretching of the truth/not meant to be taken literally

Flashback

A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time

Foreshadowing

A narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted

Free-verse

Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme

Idiom

An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

Imagery/sensory language

Language that appeals to the senses

Inference

A conclusion one can draw from the presented details.

Irony

A contrast between expectation and reality

Lyric

A collection of verses and choruses, making up a complete song, or a short non-narrative poem

Metaphor

Comparing two unlike things, without using “like” or “as"

Mood

Feeling created in the reader by a poem or story. Words, phrases, repetition, rhyme, and exaggeration all work together to create this

Narrative

A poem that tells a story

Onomatopoeia

Use of words that sound like the noises they describe

Personification

A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

Point of view

The perspective from which a story is told

Refrain

Regularly repeated line or group of lines

Repetition

The use of any element of language - a sound word, phrase, or sentence - more than once

Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme

The repetition of sound words (sound/around; the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse (aabb)

Rhythm

Musical quality created by a pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed syllables

Simile

Comparison between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”

Sonnet

A poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

Stanza

A group of lines in a poem set off by blank lines. It usually develops one idea

Symbolism

When a poet uses an object to stand for something else

Theme

A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader

Tone

Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

Voice

A writers distinctive use of language