EOG Review ELA

When something is ironic or has irony, it means?

• The opposite of what is expected

• Reference to something, someone, or an event

• To make something more believable by providing evidence

• To make something more believable by providing a way out.

What is the best definition of dialogue?

• A conversation between characters

• A battle scene between characters

• A conversation between scenes

• A dance between two people

What does the word dispute mean?

• argument

• opinion

• reason

• feeling

What do these lines tell about the trees?

• The trees wave their branches like soldiers with spears.

• The trees can barely be seen against the night sky.

• The trees must fight to stand against the constant winds.

• The trees rise tall and thin above the empty landscape.

a word or phrase that means something other than its dictionary definition, such as a simile, an idiom, a metaphor, personification

• figurative language

• allusion

• imagery

• characterization

the way a writer reveals a character's personality - through the character's words and behavior, descriptions of the character's appearance, descriptions of the character's thoughts and feelings, and comments made about the character by the others in the story

• imagery

• author's purpose

• characterization

• humor

the point in a story that creates the greatest suspense or interest

• resolution

• rising action

• setting

• climax

the emotion or attitude that a word expresses

• denotation

• connotation

• definition

• inference

the series of related event that make up a story

• reasons

• thesis

• imagery

• plot

the pattern of end rhymes in a poem that is represented by a string of letters, such as ababcdcd

• rhyme scheme

• structure

• purpose

• symbolism