National Boards Study Set - AYA ELA Questions and Answers 100% Pass

National Boards Study Set - AYA ELA Questions and Answers 100% Pass eschatological - Answer- pertaining to things at the end of time conceit - Answer- a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor aurally - Answer- (adv) with regard to sound or the ear trochee - Answer- A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable spondee - Answer- a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables dolorous - Answer- sorrowful schema - Answer- organized knowledge structure or mental model that we've stored in memory masculine rhyme - Answer- A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable enjambment - Answer- the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next anapest - Answer- unstressed, unstressed, stressed tetrameter - Answer- 4 feet hexameter - Answer- 6 feet dactyl - Answer- stressed, unstressed, unstressed iamb - Answer- unstressed, stressed faulty parallelism - Answer- i like swimming, biking, and to run mixed metaphor - Answer- a combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect Assonance - Answer- The repetition of vowel sounds to create rhyme in phrases or sentences. Red Herring - Answer- A misleading clue. An event or character intended to divert the reader away from a significant or important piece of the plot. Understatement - Answer- A writer deliberately makes a situation less important or serious as it really is. Foil - Answer- A character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character. The objective is to highlight the traits of the other character. Dramatic irony - Answer- The audience knows more about the present or future circumstances than the characters themselves. Idiom - Answer- Words used in a special way that may be different from their literal meaning. For example, "The traffic moved at a snail's pace." Paradox - Answer- A statement that is true even though it seems to be saying opposite things. For example, "The more free time you have, the less you get done." Parallelism - Answer- Repeating similar words, phrases, or sentences to give writing rhythm. Synechdoche - Answer- Using part of something to represent the whole, such as referring to a car as "wheels." Colloquialism - Answer- Use of informal words, phrases, or slang in a piece of writing. Apostrophe - Answer- A figure of speech in which the speaker addresses someone or something that is missing, such as an abstract concept like love, a person, a place, or even a thing, like the sun or the sea. Often begins with "O, _____." Consonance - Answer- Repetitive use of consonant sounds within sentences or poems, such as "pitter patter." Allegory - Answer- The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. Ambiguity - Answer- The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. Antecedent - Answer- The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. The AP language exam occasionally asks for the antecedent of a given pronoun in a long, complex sentence or in a group of sentences. Antithesis - Answer- the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite. Atmosphere - Answer- The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. Even such elements as a description of the weather can contribute. Caricature - Answer- a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other