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symbol correct answers is a concrete object that represents an idea or concept
metaphor correct answers is a direct comparison of two objects without using any comparison
words
simile correct answers is the comparison of two unlike objects using the words like or as.
hyperbole correct answers is an exaggeration or overstatement.
Comprehension correct answers is constructing meaning with the written word.
Morphology correct answers is the study of word formation in a language, including inflection,
derivation, and compound formations.
Etymology correct answers is the study of history of words.
Metonymy correct answers is substituting one word for another that has close association to it.
Orthography correct answers concerns a writing system including punctuation, spelling, and
capitalization.
Persuasive writing correct answers seeks to influence or change one's opinion
Narrative writing correct answers seeks to paint a vivid picture so that the reader is pulled into
the writer's experience.
Exposition correct answers introduces readers to the people, places, and basic circumstances or
situation of the story.
Complication (sometimes referred to as "rising action") correct answers is the series of events
that complicate the story and build up to the climax.
Climax correct answers is the high point of the story, the moment of greatest tension (the peak of
the pyramid). This is often the turning point of the story, when a character must make a difficult
decision or take some kind of action.
Falling action correct answers occurs when the missing pieces of the puzzle are filled in (for
example, secrets are revealed, mysteries solved, confessions made). The story settles down.
Resolution or denouement correct answers is the conclusion of the story, in which conflicts are
resolved (at least to some degree), questions are answered, and characters are set to move on
with a new understanding or under new circumstances.
,Expository writing correct answers seeks to inform, explain, clarify, or instruct.
Technical writing correct answers seeks to communicate clear information about a specific
subject to a targeted audience.
An emotive poem correct answers aims to capture a mood or emotion and to make readers feel
that mood or emotion.
A lyric correct answers expresses the emotions of the poet and has a musical quality.
A cinquain correct answers is a form of poetry containing five lines of two, four, six, eight, and
two syllables, respectively.
A limerick correct answers is a five-line, usually humorous, verse with the aabba rhyme scheme.
Concrete poetry correct answers is defined by the arrangement of the words on the page. The
shape that the words form have a significant visual effect. There is no requirement regarding the
number of lines in concrete poetry
An ode correct answers celebrates a person
An elegy correct answers is a poem that laments the loss of someone or something.
Argumentative poems correct answers explore an idea (such as love or valor).
lyrical poems correct answers Short, emotional poems that are personal from a single speaker
An imagistic poem correct answers aims to capture a moment and help us experience that
moment sensually (through our senses).
Narrative poems correct answers tell stories
Exact rhymes correct answers share the same last syllables (the last consonant and vowel
combination). Examples are cat, hat; laugh, staff; refine, divine.
Assonance correct answers is the repetition of vowel sounds within a sentence or a phrase to
create an internal rhyme.
Onomatopoeia correct answers is a word that sounds like its meaning; the sound is the definition
of the word.
Alliteration correct answers is the repetition of sounds.
Eye rhymes correct answers look like a rhyme because the word endings are spelled the same,
but the words don't sound the same. Examples are bough, through, enough, though.
, Half-rhymes correct answers share only the final consonant( s). Examples are cat, hot; adamant,
government.
iambic meter correct answers is one of the most common metrical patterns. The stress falls on
every other syllable, creating a steady da-dum, da-dum, da-dum rhythm to the poem. Each
drumbeat (da-dum) is called a foot.
A sonnet correct answers is composed of 14 lines usually written in iambic pentameter (five
groups of syllables known as feet per line). The rhyme scheme will vary depending on the type
of sonnet.
A ballad correct answers is a poem that usually tells a story and is often meant to be sung. The
rhyme scheme is typically abcb defe ghih, and so on. Ballads tend to emphasize action rather
than emotions or ideas and often have a steady, sing-songy meter.
Haikus correct answers are unrhymed poems of three lines and 17 syllables. Line 1 has five
syllables; line 2 has seven; and line 3 has five.
A villanelle correct answers has five three-line stanzas with an aba rhyme scheme and a final
quatrain with an abaa rhyme. There are only two rhymes in the poem, and line one must be
repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18 while line three must be repeated in lines 9, 15, and 19.
The alphabetic principle correct answers states that letters represent the sounds of a language.
Though it sounds simplistic, students need to make the connection that a combination of letters
represent a series of sounds based on a relationship between the letters and the corresponding
sounds.
The social interaction theory correct answers stresses the importance of the surrounding
environment in literacy development. Relying on feedback, the social interaction model states
that language acquisition is not an innate ability but must be fostered with context from the
cultural environment.
Sight words correct answers are words that students should be able to recognize as soon as the
student sees them in print. These words may not be easily decodable, but because they include
the most commonly used words in print, they are critical to the success of emergent readers. For
example, "the," "where," and "you" are all sight words at the earliest levels.
Shared writing correct answers is a composition of a text created by the teacher and the students.
The teacher generally writes the story while the students piece together the students' ideas. The
text can be published when it is completed.
Shared reading correct answers involves students reading along while an expert reads fluently.
By modeling the reading, the expert (usually the teacher) demonstrates what it is that good
readers do.
