Figurative Language
Giving a nonhuman human characteristics.
What is personification?
Information that supports the reasons in your claim.
What is evidence?
A literary technique that writers use to present their ideas through reason and logic, in order to influence the audience.
What is persuasion?
What the passage or paragraph is about.
What is the main idea?
A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word in the same language.
What is a synonym?
A direct comparison of two different things.
What is metaphor?
A response to an opponent's counterargument that explains why the original argument is still correct.
What is a rebuttal?
Descriptive, sensory language and imagery to evoke an emotional response and convince an audience of something.
What is emotional appeal?
The reason why an author writes.
What is author's purpose?
A sign or warning of whats going to happen next.
What is foreshadowing?
Extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
The alternate or opposing viewpoint.
What is a counterclaim?
Recommendation of a consumer product or service by a person whose opinion is valued (like a celebrity or expert).
What is testimonial?
When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.
What is context clues?
Visually descriptive or figurative language.
What is imagery?
The use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom".
What is onomatopoeia?
The writer's stance on a problem or an issue.
What is a claim?
Suggests that because a belief, action, or trend is already popular, everyone should do it.
What is bandwagon?
The feeling the author wants the reader to get.
What is mood?
Using prior knowledge and what you read to determine what is happening.
What is inference?
The repeated use of the same constant at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
The process of sharing a viewpoint in a thoughtful, well-reasoned way with the purpose to persuade as well as create a scholarly dialogue.
What is an academic argument?
Carries additional emotional weight or significance—whether positive or negative—beyond its' actual (or literal) meaning.
What is loaded words?
The attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject.
What is tone?
The lesson or moral of the story.
What is theme?