SIFT
Sift Breakdown
Figurative Language
Figurative Language
Figurative Language Examples
100
Writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character or audience.
What is Tone?
100
SIFT is a strategy to help you analyze _________ a little deeper by looking for stylistic techniques used by the author to create a tone or theme.
What is Literature?
100
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
What is Simile?
100
A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as.
What is Metaphor?
100
"Time is money."
What is Metaphor?
200
Words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses.
What is Images?
200
SIFT is a _________ to help you analyze literature a little deeper by looking for stylistic techniques used by the author to create a tone or theme.
What is Strategy?
200
Usually the opposite of what is expected.
What is Irony?
200
Words that sound like the word named.
What is Onomatopoeia?
200
Bang! Crash! Drip Drip Drip
What is Onomatopoeia?
300
Consists of words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else.
What is Figurative Language?
300
SIFT is a strategy to help you analyze literature a little deeper by looking for _____________ used by the author to create a tone or theme.
What is Stylistic Techniques?
300
A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or ideas human qualities.
What is Personification?
300
A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing.
What is Allusion?
300
"The warrior fought like a lion."
What is Simile?
400
An object, person, place, or action that has both meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself.
What is Symbol?
400
SIFT is a strategy to help you ________ literature a little deeper by looking for stylistic techniques used by the author to create a tone or theme.
What is Analyze?
400
A great exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
400
A character does something that has different meanings from what he or she thinks it means. The audience and other characters know the implications of the actions or speech.
What is Dramatic Irony?
400
"The wind cried in the dark."
What is Personification?
500
The central message of a literary work. It is a general statement about life or human nature.
What is Theme?
500
SIFT is a strategy to help you analyze literature a little deeper by looking for stylistic techniques used by the author to create a ______ or _______.
What is Tone or Theme?
500
The speaker or narrator says one thing while meaning the opposite.
What is Verbal Irony?
500
A situation that turns out differently than one would normally expect.
What is Situational Irony?
500
A deep-sea diver drowns in a bathtub.
What is situational irony?
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