10th Grade FSA exam with correct 100% correct answers 2024

alliteration - answer-repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words (My Father's First Face...) allusion - answer-a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature anecdote - answer-a brief account of an interesting incident or event usually used to entertain or make a point antagonist - answer-a force working against the protagonist or main character assonance - answer-(used in poetry) the repetition of vowel sounds within nonrhyming words (ex: a clEAn drEAm of bEing frEE) claim - answer-the writer's position on an issue or problem climax - answer-the point of greatest interest in a story or play connotation - answer-the ideas and feelings associated with a word, as opposed to its dictionary definition consonance - answer-repetition of consonant sounds at the middle and end of words ("a loNely afterNooN") denotation - answer-dictionary definition hyperbole - answer-exaggeration for effect exposition - answer-the first stage of a story plot figurative - answer-imaginative language that communicates meanings beyond the basic meaning of words literal - answer-language that uses the most basic meaning of words first-person POV - answer-writing that uses the pronouns I, we, my foil - answer-a character who provides a striking contrast to another character foreshadowing - answer-when a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story (which creates suspense) idiom - answer-an expression that has a meaning different from the meanings of its individual words ("It's raining cats and dogs") imagery - answer-descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader inference - answer-a logical guess based on facts and one's own knowledge and experience irony - answer-a contrast between appearance and reality, or expected and actual outcomes metaphor - answer-a direct (no like or as) comparison of two basically unlike things mood - answer-the feeling or atmosphere a writer creates for the reader omniscient POV - answer-a narrator who can see everything and knows the innermost thoughts of all characters onomatopoeia - answer-the use of words whose sounds echo their meanings (buzz, whisper, murmur) paraphrase - answer-to restate information in one's own words personification - answer-giving of human qualities to a non-human entity ("The blank page stared at me menacingly.") tragedy - answer-a work that presents the downfall of a dignified character tone - answer-an author's attitude towards his or her subject third-person POV - answer-writing that uses the pronouns he, she, they to describe the actions of the main characters symbol - answer-a person, place, object, animal, or activity that stands for something beyond itself (the way a flag represents a country or a dove represents peace) suspense - answer-the feeling of growing tension and excitement felt by a reader simile - answer-an indirect comparison between two unlike things using LIKE or AS rhetorical question - answer-a device where an author poses a question whose answer is so obvious that they do not require a reply protagonist - answer-the main character in a story, play, or novel (may be the good guy, but also may not) dramatic irony - answer-when the audience knows more than the other characters verbal irony - answer-sarcasm (saying one thing, but meaning something else) situational irony - answer-when the situation is unexpected understatement - answer-to downplay a situation