1. Reading PSSA Literary Terms Review

2. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: • “Came through the jaws of death Back from the mouth of hell.”

3. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 2. “All we are is dust in the wind.”

4. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 3. Please pour punch in pitchers.

5. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 4. The engine roared to life under the mechanic’s skilled care.

6. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 5. Prowling and predatory, the criminal roamed the jungle of the city, waiting to pounce on his newest prey.

7. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 6. Listening to the ping of the ancient furnace as it rumbled with its burden and hearing the patter of rain on the windows of the creaky old house, we felt as if we were the only people in the world.

8. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 7. Fire and Ice Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

9. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 8. She is as cold as ice; butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth.

10. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 9. He bled rivers of blood.

11. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 10. “All the world’s a stage”

12. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 11. She seems as happy as a lark.

13. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 12. He doesn’t have enough sense to come in from the rain.

14. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 13. The rustling trees danced in the wind.

15. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 14. The pepperonis on the pizza seemed to stare at me, beckoning me to partake of their delightful treasures.

16. Identify all of the literary terms that apply to the selection below: 15. Fans hummed their monotonous tunes as the tortured students groped their feeble way through their exams.

17. Explain how the title of the poem has more than one meaning. Use at least three examples from the poem in your explanation. The fire escape in the poem means more than one thing. Literally, the speaker and his or her friend are sitting on the fire escape– with their “Long, dewy limbs/ propped against/ the grainy edge/ of a building’s roof.” Another meaning of the title could be found in the reference to the “Surfaces turned to/ bisque in the blurry air/ of this fiery kiln.” The image suggests that the speaker and his or her friend feel like they are being baked alive, and so they try to escape the feeling by watching the neighborhood: “It was too hot/ to speak, so we/ watched the radiant city. . . from the/ fire escape.” By becoming an audience to their grand-

18. mothers’ feeding pigeons and the boys below them riding bikes, they are able to escape, at least for a few moments, that suffocating sensation of the oppressive, fiery heat.