Figurative Language
Something that is not obvious
What is explicit?
Two rhyming lines
What is a couplet?
How the reader feels when reading the text
What is mood?
Three types of rhetorical devices
What is ethos, logos, and pathos?
The three purposes for which an author may write.
What is to inform, to entertain, and to persuade?
A list of words beginning with the same sound
A collection of words gathered in the same row of a poem
What is a line?
How the author feels about a component of the text
What is tone?
A rhetorical device that emphasizes credibility and qualifications
When an author writes to tell a story
Sound words
What is onomatopoeia?
A poem that expresses appreciation
When a story starts in the middle of the action
What is in media res?
A rhetorical device that uses logic, statistics, and facts
What is logos?
When an author writes to provide information
Life is a highway
What is a metaphor?
New York is brimming / With people who are thinking / About the city / That gives them a lease on life / But takes as much as it gives.
What is tanka?
The peak of action in a story
What is climax?
Ed Sheeran advertising Heinz ketchup
What is ethos?
If you have ever heard a dolphin make noise, the sounds you hear can be described as whistles and clicks. Scientists think that dolphins even have a unique "signature whistle" that can be used to identify specific members of their pod. Dolphins can also communicate and navigate under the water using echolocation. Echolocation is a process by which dolphins emit sound waves that bounce off of other objects under the water.
It's raining cats and dogs
What is an idiom?
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
What is a sonnet?
What part of the story is this?
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs.
Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970), p. 3.
What is exposition?
Back in my day I had to walk three miles to the watering hole just to brush my teeth.
What is pathos?
"Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"