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English 3 - Midterm ReviewQuestions and answers 2024/2025
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Allegory ANS✔✔ a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically
a moral or political one
Alliteration ANS✔✔ the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely
connected words.
Allusion ANS✔✔ an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an
indirect or passing reference:
Archetype ANS✔✔ a very typical example of a certain person or thing:
Author's purpose ANS✔✔ the reason an author writes a story
Figures of speech ANS✔✔ a form of expression (as a simile or metaphor) used to convey meaning or
heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or
connotation familiar to the reader or listener
Generalization ANS✔✔ a general statement or concept obtained by inference from specific cases:
Hyperbole ANS✔✔ exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Inversion ANS✔✔ the action of inverting something or the state of being inverted:
, Metaphor ANS✔✔ a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to
which it is not literally applicable:
Meter ANS✔✔ a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem
Mood ANS✔✔ a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and
descriptions.
Motivation ANS✔✔ the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way:
Oxymoron ANS✔✔ a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
(e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true).
Parallelism ANS✔✔ the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way.
Plain style ANS✔✔ refers to speech or writing that is simple, direct, and straightforward
Symbolism ANS✔✔ the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities:
Writer's style ANS✔✔ the way a writer writes and it is the technique which an individual author uses in
his writing
Cabeza de Vaca ANS✔✔ In Encounters and Foundations of 1800, who was a Spaniard that led an 8 year
expedition through the New World?
Smallpox ANS✔✔ In Encounters and Foundations of 1800, what did Europeans bring and expose to
Native Americans?
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