Frost 7th Grade Reading SOL Review

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What is a ballad?

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A narrative poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABAB.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning.

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What is FREE VERSE?

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A poem without a regular meter or rhyme scheme.

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Which prefix means NOT?

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dis-, non-, un- (except re-).

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What demonstrates the struggle between opposing forces?

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Conflict.

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as.'

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What is a theme in literature?

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The central idea or message conveyed in a literary work.

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What is personification?

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A figure of speech where human qualities are attributed to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract concepts.

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What is the rhyme scheme of a traditional sonnet?

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ABABCDCDEFEFGG.

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What is an alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.