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Literacy Exam: March 11 th and 12 th
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Literacy Exam: March 11th and 12th
Vocabulary, Part 1
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Alliteration repetition of initial or beginning
consonant sounds.
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Allusion Is a referenceto something inliterature, history,or culture.
Egyptian Queen
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Anachronism Something or someone that is not in its
correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.
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Anaphora Is the deliberate repetition of a word or
phrase usually at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, paragraphs.
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Archetype the original pattern or model of which all
things of the same type are representations or copies.
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Aside Is a line spoken by an actor to the
audience but not intended for others on the stage.
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Autobiography Is a history of a person’s life written or
told by that person.
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Biography Is a written account of another person’s
life.
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Cinquain A five line stanza of syllabic verse with
respectively, two, four, six, eight, an dtwo syllables.
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Concrete Information
Factual material from the text.
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Consonance Repetition of two or more consonant
sounds in a group of words or line of poetry.
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Couplet A pair of rhyming
verse lines.
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Descriptive Writing Provides details about an object, place,
or person purposefully to make the experience depicted come alive for the reader.
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Dialogue Conversation between two or more
people in a play, novel, short story, etc.
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Discourse Purposeful communication between
people.
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Disinformation Deliberately misleading information
announced publicly or leaked by a government or especially by an intelligence agency for the purpose of influencing public opinion or the government in another nation.
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Dramatic Irony Is when the audience knows something
that the characters do not.
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Epic Poem A lyric poem, usually long, on a serious
subject and written in a dignified language.
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Expository Text A form of writing intended to set forth or
explain.
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Fantasy Is imaginative or fanciful work that deals
especially with supernatural or unnatural events or characters.
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Fiction Creative Literature that
is invented or imagined, not true
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First Person Point of View The POV that uses “I”
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Free Verse Verse that does not follow a fixed
metrical pattern
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Genre A form or style of writing such as
narrative (a story), informative (a report), or functional (instructions).
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Hyperbole Deliberate exaggeration for effect
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Idiom A phrase where the words together have
a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words.
“I lost my head” “Quit beating around the bush”.
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Info-graphics Information conveyed by graphic
elements, including charts, graphs, etc. Often contained in print media.
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Irony When you expect one thing and get
another instead
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Limericks Fixed form of
humorous or nonsense verse with rhyme scheme of aaba.
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Limited Omniscient Point of View POV where the author tells the story
using third person POV, but limiting himself to complete knowledge of one character.
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Lyric Poem A short poem of
songlike quality that expresses personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker.