SOL End of Course Reading Quick Review

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SOL End of Course ReadingQuick Review
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Define rhyme scheme.

• pattern in which final lines of poetry sound
  alike
• What is the rhyme scheme of an English sonnet?
• ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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Define couplet.

• two rhyming verses
• How many verses are in a quatrain?
• four verses(lines)

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My uncle was a rock during his divorce.Which
poetic device is used?

• Metaphor

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What is a stanza?

• a group of verses in a poem
• What is a rhetorical question?
• a question that does not need an answer

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Which question is rhetorical?

• Have you found the outlet?
• Have you lost your mind?
• Have you filled in the application?
• Have you forgotten my name?
• Have you lost your mind?

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What is an anecdote?

• an amusing story, usually about real people
• What is sensory imagery?
• descriptive details that appeal to the five senses

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A --?-- is a repeated phrase or verse of poetry.

• refrain
• --?-- uses human qualities to describe something
  not human.
• personification

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And the face of the waters that spread away /
Was as gray as the face of the dead.Paul
Laurence DunbarWhat poetic device is used in
these verses?

• personification

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"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula
on a slice of angel food.
Raymond ChandlerWhat poetic device is used?

• simile

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What is blank verse.

• unrhymed iambic pentameter
• What is free verse.
• no rhyme, no meter

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Define lyrical.

• personal, emotional poetry
• What is first person point of view?
• using I(narrator is main character)

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What is a symbol?

• something physical that suggests an idea or
  value
• What are some symbols of the United States?
• flag, Statue of Liberty, Uncle Sam

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My computer hates me.Which poetic device is
used?

• personification

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Works Cited means --?--

• those sources actually used in a research paper
• What is plot?
• series of events in a story

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Define Romanticism in fiction.

• giving an idealized or perfect portrayal of life
• What is Realism?
• giving a picture of daily, often harsh, life

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My best friend Eddie is such a Robin Hood
fellow.Which literary device is used?

• Literary allusion

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Takita is such a couch potato.Which poetic
device is used?

• metaphor

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The Heavy Weight class of wrestlers look like a
group of Hercules.What device is used?

• mythological allusion

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My friend Susie has the courage of Rosa
Park.What device is used?

• historical allusion

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An --?-- is a comment muttered under the breath
in a play.

• aside

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What is plagiarism?

• Using someones exact words or ideas without
  giving credit
• A tragedy is a play that ends with --?--
• death

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What is conflict?

• a struggle between opposing forces
• How many kinds of conflict are there?
• 5

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Who is the antagonist?

• the character who is in conflict with the
  protagonist
• Prologue means --?--
• introduction

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It was a half-baked idea.What poetic device
is used?

• metaphor

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The sky was full of dancing stars.Which poetic
device is used?

• personification

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Life is like an onion You peel it off one layer
at a time, and sometimes you weep."?Carl
Sandburg

• simile

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You may want to go to this website for 2008 VA
SOL Test on Readinghttp//www.doe.virginia.gov/
VDOE/Assessment/Release2008/VA_Spr08Released_EOCRe
ading.pdf
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Best of luck on the End of Course Reading
Test.Remember to have a positive attitude and
to use process of elimination.YOU CAN DO THIS!!
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