Literature Exam: Themes and Devices

A poem by John Keats that celebrates autumn's beauty and abundance.

A poem expressing the desire for equality and acceptance by an African American.

The excessive desire for wealth and its negative impact on people, according to the poet.

The title of a poem or a line within the poem expressing patriotism and desire to love one's country.

Giving human-like qualities to autumn in a poem or literary work. A figure of speech.

In a poem, the two roads often represent different choices and paths in life.

Newspapers are often owned by a group of individuals or corporations who set the overall editorial policy.

The individual responsible for ensuring daily publication and quality of content.

Organizations that provide news to publications

Individuals responsible for collecting news information.

Name of a literary work.

The subject matter of a literary work or excerpt (the story of how a filmmaker made his third movie).

Name of a literary work (or a story excerpt or a story's title).

Advertising significantly alters or changes the natural environment (nature).

The distance between Earth and the Moon is shorter than the distance around Earth's equator ten times.

Another name for the Moon; the Moon orbits Earth.

Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system without natural satellites (moons).

A sentence composed of two or more independent clauses.

A sentence that expresses a positive statement or assertion.

A degree of adjectives or adverbs comparing two or more things (e.g., more, less, as…as).

Verb forms that are not finite, i.e., do not show tense, number or person (e.g., doing, seen, leaving, running, sleeping).

Using punctuation marks (commas, periods, etc) to clarify meaning in a written sentence.