The Academic Vocabulary Test will be this Thursday, October 1.  The words are below:

• Meter – the basic rhythmic structure in verse, composed of stressed and unstressed syllables
• Rhyme scheme – the pattern of rhyming lines (e.g. ABAB, ABBA) Note: The pattern starts over with each new stanza
• Personification – figurative language in which non-human things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities (e.g., necessity is the mother of invention)
• Biography – the life story of a person as told by another
• Autobiography – the life story of a person as told by himself or herself
• Memoir – the autobiographical story of one stage or time in a person’s life; typically highly emotional; focuses on a short period of his/her life, rather than the entire life
• Fictional adaptation – a fictional story based on an autobiography; the point of view is often changed and details are often added that weren’t in the original text
• Implicit message – a message that is not stated, but is implied (must be inferred by the reader)
• Explicit message – a directly stated message
• Figurative language – language layered with meaning by word images and figures of speech, as opposed to literal language