Figurative Language 1
The difference between simile and metaphor.
Both are comparisons, but similes use "like" or "as" while metaphors do not.
Read the following sentence: "She cried like a baby at the end of the movie." What figurative language is used here?
Simile
True or false: the ugly duckling's egg looked different from the other ducks'.
True
Spiritual and physical would be the two examples Campbell gives of this.
Heroic deeds
Define context clues.
Looking around a specific word and analyzing the way the writer uses it to figure out the definition.
The main difference between similes and metaphors.
Similes compare using "like" or "as" while metaphors do not.
Read the following sentence: "My anxiety punched me in the gut." What figurative language is used here?
Personification
Describe the ugly duckling's encounter with the hunting dog.
It ran up to him, but thought he was too ugly to even kill.
Give an example of a modern coming-of-age ritual.
Graduation, bar mitzvah, church confirmation, baptism, etc.
"Ms. Hawkins reprimanded a student for throwing paper airplanes in class." What would the word "reprimanded" mean?
scold
Extreme exaggerations are:
Hyperboles
"I was extremely tired after the football game, so as soon as I got home, I hit the sack." What does this idiom mean?
I went to bed.
The Ugly Duckling turned out to actually be a beautiful ____________.
Swan
True or false: Joseph Campbell believes that mothers are often not heroic.
False
Based on context clues in the passage below, ecstatic means __________.
They were ecstatic at the birth of their baby. They couldn't stop smiling for days.
Excited
Language that contains or uses figures of speech, often to compare or evoke an emotional response.
Figurative Language
Saying something in one tone, but meaning it in a different way.
Sarcasm/verbal irony
This Danish author wrote many classic fairy tales, like The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen, and The Little Mermaid.
Hans Christian Andersen
The journey of a _______ requires death and rebirth.
Hero
The boy was caught stealing from the store. His larceny caught up with him when the owner showed him a video tape. What does larceny mean?
Theft
an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own
Idioms
A hyperbole is when you describe something in a way that goes too far, but an ____________ is when the description does not go far enough.
Understatement
Describe the theme of The Ugly Duckling.
Appearances can be deceiving, and you can't judge a book by its cover.
A person that does something extraordinary
Hero
He climbed the mountain and stood looking over the tops of the trees on the mountain across from him. He was right on the precipice and could have fallen. What does precipice mean?
Edge