Grade 9 - English Exam

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Literary Devices:

Personification

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- giving human qualities to an object, animal, or idea.

- connects readers with the object that is personified. Makes descriptions of it more vidid, or can help readers understand, sympathize with, or react emotionally to non-human characters.

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Literary Devices:

Onomatopoeia

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- a word that represents a sound

-mimics the sound of music without instruments. Forces the reader yo speak the poem the way the writer intended it.

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Literary Devices:

Hyperbole

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- exaggeration for comic or dramatic effect

- creates a larger-than-life effect and overly stress a specific point. Emphasizes emotion

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Literary Devices:

Simile

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-comparison of two different things using "like" or "as"

- gives information about one object that is unknown by the reader by comparing it to something with which the reader is familiar. Creates an emotional effect.

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Literary Devices:

Metaphor

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- comparison NOT using like or as. Something is portrayed as something else.

Gives information about one object that is unknown bubthe reader hu comparing it to something with which the reader is familiar. Creates an emotional effect.

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Literary Devices:

Consonance

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- the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in "all mammals names Sam are clammy".

- used to emphasize or imitate a sound, provide "clues" for literary symbolism, trigger an association between two ideas

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Literary Devices:

Assonance

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- the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhukijg within phrases or sentences

Ex: "it beats... As it sweaps... As it cleans!"

- used to emphasize or imitate a sound, provide "clues" for literary symbolism, trigger an association between two ideas

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Literary Devices:

Allusion

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- a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.

- used to tap into the emotions associated with something well known by the audience.

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Literary Devices:

Oxymoron

Oxymoron

Oxymoron

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- a contradictory set of words (eg: "act naturally", "holy war", "found missing")

-used to make a point or call attention to a subject

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Literary Devices:

Oxymoron

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- a contradictory set of words (eg: "act naturally", "holy war", "found missing")

-used to make a point or call attention to a subject

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Repitition

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- exactly what you think it is

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The Hero's Journey:

First stage

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Ordinary world

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The Hero's Journey:

Second stage

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Call to adventure

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Third stage

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Refusal of the call

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The Hero's Journey:

Forth stage

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Meeting the mentor

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The Hero's Journey:

Fifth stage

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Crossing the first threshold

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The Hero's Journey:

Sixth stage

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Tests, allies, and enemies

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The Hero's Journey:

Seventh stage

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Approach to inmost cave (his obstacles and fears)

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The Hero's Journey:

Eighth stage

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The ordeal (life or death situation)

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The Hero's Journey:

Ninth stage

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The reward

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The Hero's Journey:

Tenth stage

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The road back

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Eleventh stage

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The resurrection (face off with death)

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The Hero's Journey:

Twelfth stage

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The return with the elixir (final reward)