English II UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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English II
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English II
English II UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Purple Hibiscus - Correct Answer- Adichie
Pride and Prejudice - Correct Answer- Austen
Canterbury Tales - Correct Answer- Chaucer
Macbeth - Correct Answer- Shakespeare
apostrophe - Correct Answer- address to a person or thing that is not ...
speaker - Correct Answer- the person who is telling the story/poem
concrete diction - Correct Answer- object
formal diction - Correct Answer- words that are used less in everyday conversations
informal diction - Correct Answer- common, everyday words
general diction - Correct Answer- general noun that does not have adjectives to describe it
specific diction - Correct Answer- describes particular type of object/thing with
adjectives/modifiers
,imagery - Correct Answer- detailed description of an event/thing in order to appeal to a sense
metaphor - Correct Answer- comparison between two unlike things, using "is" not "like" or
"as"
personification - Correct Answer- giving human qualities to inanimate things
simile - Correct Answer- comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"
paradox - Correct Answer- phrase or situation that appears contradictory but contains truth
oxymoron - Correct Answer- phrase containing two words that contradict each other
hyperbole - Correct Answer- exaggeration
understatement - Correct Answer- the author/speaker stating less than what he/she means
metonymy - Correct Answer- object or idea substitutes in for a closely related term (ex: close
to the crown - crown is related to royalty)
synecdoche - Correct Answer- part is substituted for whole (lend me a hand)
allusion - Correct Answer- reference to person, event, or literary work outside the poem
(biblical - reference to bible; historical - references historical event; mythological - reference
to mythical ideas; personal - reference to personal events)
irony - Correct Answer- contrast between what is said and meant or what happens and what is
expected to happen (opposite of what they mean, or opposite of what is expected to happen)
syntax - Correct Answer- grammatical order of words in sentence or line of verse/dialogue
, dramatic irony - Correct Answer- character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known
to the audience or to other characters
open form - Correct Answer- free verse in which there is no regularity
closed form - Correct Answer- consistency in rhyme, line length, or metrical pattern
sonnet - Correct Answer- 14-line poem in iambic pentameter
stanza - Correct Answer- division of a poem that is repeated in the same form
rhythm - Correct Answer- recurrence of accents or stresses in a poem
iamb rhythm - Correct Answer- unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllable
caesura rhythm - Correct Answer- strong pause within a line of a verse
meter - Correct Answer- measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems
pentameter - Correct Answer- used in sonnet
rhyme - Correct Answer- matching of final vowel/consonant sounds
alliteration - Correct Answer- repetition of consonant sounds
assonance - Correct Answer- repetition of vowel sounds
onomatopoeia - Correct Answer- words that imitate the sounds they describe
situation - Correct Answer- told by the speaker - what is going on in poem
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