Figurative Language
What type of figurative language is "My ship of dreams has come in!"
What is a metaphor?
The main character and the character who causes a problem for the main character.
What is protagonist and antagonist?
When one event is the reason for another to happen, for example: a person smoked his/her whole life, then got lung cancer.
What is cause and effect?
The paragraphs within a poem - may rhyme or not, may be long or short, can be two lines or more.
What are stanzas?
Advertisers try to get the audience to feel that they need something so they'll buy it; certain groups try to get people to feel scared or anxious so they'll stop smoking, texting and driving, etc.
What is an appeal to emotions?
What type of figurative language is, "The trees were dancing with laughter as the wind raced between their branches."
What is personification?
The time and place of a story, such as: "Long ago, in a faraway land, there lived ... in her late father's manor."
What is setting?
After researching, but before you start writing, you plan what you want to say by doing any one of these.
What is brainstorming, mapping, outlining, or using graphic organizers.
When a poem has two lines in a row that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
When advertisers try to get you to buy something saying that it's popular: "78% of people who use it like it."
What is bandwagon?
The old cartoons used to have dialog boxes with "Pow!" and "Bam!" as the characters were fighting.
What is onomatopoeia?
In Cinderella, the stepmother made Cinderella live in the attic and treated her as a servant after her father died. This is what part of the plot?
What is the initiating event?
This is the whole point of the essay you're writing, just as the main idea is the whole point of a paragraph.
What is a thesis?
This poem has 17 syllables in 3 lines that are usually about nature.
What is a haiku?
When advertisers use a supposed expert or an actor who portrays a doctor, lawyer, etc. to sound more credible.
What is testimonial?
Molly always wanted to have a manual (stick shift) car, so finally bought one. A day later, she broke her right arm; she couldn't drive her new car for two months because she couldn't shift gears with her cast on.
What is irony?
In this conflict, the protagonist wants to apply for a job that requires a lot of public speaking, but the person is afraid of speaking in front of others.
What is internal conflict or individual versus self?
When writing compound sentences (two sentences joined), you need to use one of two ways to join them.
What is a comma and conjunction or what is a semi colon?
This 5-line poem rhymes, has rhythm, and is usually very funny.
What is a limerick?
To sell a product, advertisers use someone famous whom audience members want to be like, so they buy the product.
What is appeal to prestige or snobbery.
A man gives a woman a diamond, stating that it is to show how much he loves her.
What is symbolism?
Types of external conflict including: climbing a mountain; writing with a broken pencil; fighting bullying within a school.
What is individual vs nature; individual vs technology; individual vs society.
Words such as: First, For example, During, After, Next.
What is a signal or transition word/phrase?
A stanza within a poem that has four lines, such as: Roses are red, Violets are blue. Sugar is sweet, And so are you.
What is a quatrain?
Able to understand how the media (news, movies, magazines, etc.) works; knowing that the media is likely to have bias (opinion); not believing everything you hear or see in the media.
What is media literacy?