The use of a word or a phrase, which transcends its literal interpretation
What is a Figure of Speech?
100
Author invokes sensory details. Draws the reader more deeply into the reading by helping the reader visualize what is being described.
What is Imagery?
100
An overused expression; are often idiomatic.
What is a cliche?
100
Who is the author writing for?
What is the Audience?
100
A group of related words that does not include a subject and verb.
What is a Phrase?
200
a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object.
Example: The cat's eyes were jewels, gleaming in the darkness.
What is a Metaphor?
200
When a word, phrase, image, or idea is repeated.
What is a Motif?
200
A generally innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant.
What is a Euphemism?
200
Why is the author writing?
What is the Purpose?
200
A group of related words containing a subject and a verb that can stand alone. Also known as a sentence.
What is an Independent Clause?
300
Figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though.
Example: She floated in like a cloud.
What is a Simile?
300
An apparent contradiction that is nonetheless somehow true.
Examples:
Bittersweet.
Be cruel to be kind (Hamlet).
The beginning of the end.
What is a Paradox?
300
A short saying that is widely used to express a basic truth or practical principle; often metaphorical; when it describes a basic rule of conduct it may also be known as a maxim.
What is a Proverb?
300
What is the author's attitude about the subject he or she is writing about?
What is the Tone?
300
A group of related words that contain a subject and a verbs that cannot stand alone.
What is a Dependent Clause?
400
Giving human qualities to animals or objects.
Example: The daffodils nodded their yellow heads.
What is Personification?
400
A group of words used as a unit to convey meaning; a set pattern of words that native speakers use conventionally to express an idea/concept; can be informal; can be said more directly.
What is an Expression?
400
Exotic dancer.
What is a Euphemism?
400
The main point an author is making in his or her essay.
What is the Thesis?
400
A word that connects two independent clauses and is often (but not always) accompanied by a comma.
What is a Coordinating Conjunction?
500
An object or action that represents something else.
Examples: A heart as a symbol for love. A sunrise as a symbol for new hope.
What is a Symbol?
500
A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements; expression that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is an Idiom?
500
"Too good to be true."
What is a Cliche?
500
"Inflated," "Natural," and "Overly Informal are examples of what?
What is Voice?
500
A word that comes at the beginning of a subordinate (or dependent) clause and establishes the relationship between the dependent clause and the rest of the sentence. It also turns the clause into something that depends on the rest of the sentence for its meaning.