Figurative Language
The message or lesson in a text about life.
(Provide an example of one as well as the answer)
What is Theme?
(Example answers may vary)
A story about a family trying to stick together and survive through the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930s
What is to entertain?
Usually done to create rhythm or to show that lines are connected.
What is rhyme?
THIS QUESTION HAS TWO ANSWERS
Comparing two things using like or as (this should be your first answer)
Comparing two things WITHOUT using like or as (this should be your second answer)
What is a simile?
What is a metaphor?
The way a non-fiction text is built or created. There are at least 5 main types:
1. Compare & Contrast
2. Problem & Solution
3. Cause & Effect
4. Description
5. Chronological / Sequence
What is text structure?
Write at least 5 types of author's purpose in question form.
Answers may vary but a few options are:
To persuade, inform, entertain, engage, express, explain, or describe.
In what person point of view (first or third) are the sentences written?:
You fixed your car in two days. Your whole was family was surprised at this because you have never touched a wrench in your life.
What is 2nd person point of view?
When words or phrases appear multiple times in a poem. Usually done to show the importance of something.
What is repetition?
Choose the type of figurative language this shows: wide-eyed and wondering while we wait for others to waken
Example: House vs. Home
House is a place where humans live.
Home is also a place where people live but has a positive ___.
What is connotation and denotation?
On September 23, a large cavalry troop from Fort Robinson arrived at the camp of Sitting Bull. Just as he was about to give a welcoming speech, a commotion broke out among the watching warriors. Rifles were fired, and the meeting ended in a massacre of the soldiers.
What is the author’s purpose?
a. describe Sitting Bull’s camp.
b. persuade the reader that the Native Americans were at fault.
c. tell the events leading to a massacre.
d. explain the problems of the Calvary.
What is c. tell the events leading to a massacre?
What point of view are the sentences written? Eva thought her mother needed hospitalization. I realized she was right because her mother had an incredibly high fever.
What is first person point of view?
Using language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery? OR What is sensory language?
What kind of figurative language is this?:
- Break a leg!
- It's raining cats and dogs!
- You have to break the ice.
- She's beating around the bush
What is idiom?
To conclude from what you know from reading the story, but have not been specifically told. (This is a verb)
What is to infer?
Tofu is a product that is becoming very popular as a low-calorie, cholesterol-free meat substitute. Formerly it was found exclusively in Asian markets and health food stores, but today tofu can be purchased in most supermarket produce departments. This white, cheese like substance is made from the condensed milk of soybeans. It is extremely high in protein and low in sodium. Tofu is almost tasteless by itself, but it can be easily mixed into sauces and soups; it can even be made to imitate scrambled eggs.
What is the author's purpose?
a. to evaluate Asian cooking.
b. to persuade you to eat low-cholesterol foods.
c. to describe tofu.
d. to compare tofu with meat.
What is c. to describe tofu?
A poem that takes lines or phrases from another to make a new poem. It has to put the borrowed words a the end of each line.
What is a Golden Shovel Poem?
The process of determining significance or worth. (This is a verb you might see on an EOG question- especially when being asked to ____ pieces of evidence and pick the BEST one).
What is evaluate?
To make a delicious New England pie, proceed as follows: take some water and flour; then construct a bullet-proof dough. Make this into a disk-shaped object. Dry it for a couple of days in a mild temperature. Pour on stewed dried apples and slabs of citron; leave it in a safe place until it petrifies. Serve cold at breakfast and invite your mother-in-law.
What is the author's purpose?
a. tell the steps in making a pie.
b. make fun of (satirize) New England cooking.
c. persuade the reader to buy New England pie.
d. describe New England pie.
What is b. make fun of (satirize) New England cooking?
What type of literary genre is this selection? Denise Drews was horse crazy. She read every horse book she could find. Models of ponies, palominos, and thoroughbreds cluttered her bedroom. Her walls were covered with horse pictures, and horse dreams filled her head. More than anything, Denise wanted a horse. Her father had just told her for the fiftieth time that the yard was much too small for a horse.
What is realistic fiction?
Lines that are next to each other and only rhyme with one another.
What is a couplet?