Figurative Language
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
The blooming flowers smelled of perfume and honey in the cool fresh spring air.
What is an example of imagery?
Attitude the writer takes towards the subject
What is tone?
The author of a poem
What is a poet?
What is the difference between a closed-ended question and an open-ended question?
Closed: Only one answer (yes or no)
Open: Can be answered in many different ways.
A comparison that does NOT use words 'like' or 'as'
What is a metaphor?
Santa Claus was as quiet as a mouse as he climbed down the chimney on Christmas Eve.
What is an example of a simile?
The use of repeated sounds, words, or phrases
What is theme?
The universal moral or lesson of a story or poem.
How do you determine the theme?
1. How does the main character change throughout the story?
2. What do they learn?
Gives human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea.
What is personification?
The scarf hugged her neck in the bitter cold wind.
What is an example of personification?
Connotation: A word or phrase's emotional/figurative meaning
Words that mean more than their literal meaning; represent other things
What is figurative language?
True or False: Theme and Central Idea are the same thing.
EXPLAIN!
FALSE!
Central Idea is what a story is mostly about
Theme is the main moral or lesson an author wants readers to learn
Figurative language that appeals to the five senses.
Imagery
The holiday is a bundle of joy.
What is an example of a metaphor?
What is the difference between MOOD and TONE.
Tone: How the author feels/author's attitude
What is rhyme?
A good reader will use prior knowledge and text evidence to understand what the author is really trying to say. What is this called?
Infer/Inference
A figure of speech that uses extreme, non-literal exaggeration to emphasize a point, express strong emotion, or add humor
What is hyperbole?
I've told you a million times to sit down!
What is HYPERBOLE
What does TPCASTT stand for
AND
What do you use it for?
Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shifts, Title, Theme
TPCASTT is used to determine how a poet develops the theme.
A group of lines in a poem i.e. the "paragraph" of poetry
A stanza
When you come across a short response question, you use these TWO strategies to answer the question. What are these two strategies and what do they mean?
T.A.P.
Telling, Asking, Paraphrase
R.A.C.E.
Restate, Answer, Cite (x2), Explain