Players: 1) We will begin with two players. 2) I will ask a question, and the first person to raise their hand will get to answer the question. NO SHOUTING OUT! 3) Each right answer will earn you 1 bonus point on the practice EOCT. 4) If you answer a true/false question and get the answer incorrect, your competitor continues in the competition. 5) If you both answer a multiple choice or fill in the blank question incorrectly, we’ll flip a coin to see who will continue on in the game.

Audience: 1) When it is not your turn to play, you should be writing down the questions and answers. This will serve as your study guide. I will collect these after the EOCT practice test, and based off the number of questions and answers written down, give you bonus points!!! 2) If the players answer incorrectly, the 1 st person to give me the right answer or tell me why the answer is what it is will receive ½ a point! 3) You can also earn ½ a point extra credit if you are able to tell me why an answer is false or explain the answer for a multiple choice question or statement.

True or False: A simile is a comparison between two seemingly unlike things that uses “like” or “as” True

Fill in the Blank: ____________ is a list at the beginning of a book that details the contents of the book Table of Contents

True or False: A ballad is a narrative poem that was originally meant to be sung. True

Multiple Choice: ____________ is the main idea of a piece of literature. a) tone b) theme c) narrative b) theme

Fill in the Blank A ____________ is a type of poem that has 14 lines. Sonnet

True or False The voice of a piece of literature can be set by the word choice and the details presented in the story. False The tone of a piece of literature can be set by the word choice and the details presented in the story.

Fill in the Blank A __________ is a list of terms in the back of a book that gives important vocabulary words with their definitions. glossary

Multiple Choice The following is an example of what kind of sound device: In the steamer is the trout seasoned with slivers of ginger. a) Alliterationb) Consonancec) Assonance a) Alliteration

True or False Imagery appeals to one of our five senses and helps the reader get an image of the situation. True

Fill in the Blank Making a comment like, “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.” Is an example of ________ because it is an extreme exaggeration. Hyperbole

Fill in the blank ______________ is a pair of two rhyming lines that comes at the end of a poem. Couplet

Multiple Choice _________ poetry has no fixed rhyme, meter, line length, or stanza arrangement a) white verseb) blank versec) free verse c) Free verse

True or False A metaphor gives human like characteristics to non human things. False Personification gives human like characteristics to non human things.

True or False An example of internal conflict would be a character having conflict with another character. False An example of external conflict would be a character having conflict with another character.

True or False Every poem has a narrator. False Every poem has a speaker.

True or False A cinquian has 5 lines. True

Multiple Choice The following is an example of what literary term: “O loving hate! O brawling love!” a) metaphorb) refrainc) oxymoron c) oxymoron because the two terms contradict each other

True or False The following is an example of a metaphor: Her eyes are the morning sun. True – Compares two things and doesn’t use like or as

True or False The literal meaning of a word is known as the denotation. True The associated meaning would be the connotative meaning

True or False A stanza is a group of lines forming a unit True

True or False Pop is an example of an onomatopoeia True Because it is an imitation of a sound made by or associated with what it’s referencing.

Multiple Choice ______ is a seemingly contradictory statement that may still be true such as it is more tiring to stand rather than walk. a) oxymoronb) alliterationc) paradox c) paradox

Multiple Choice: The following is an example of what kind of poem? Awakening Silver dawn awakes the new day is born again innocent and fresh a) cinquianb) dramaticc) haiku c) haiku

Fill in the Blank A ___________ poem tells a story. narrative

Fill in the Blank ________ is the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy Tragic flaw