Figurative Language
She was as busy as a bee.
What is a simile?
Signal words are next, then, after
What is chronological?
an arguable, debatable statement that serves as the main point
What is a claim?
"thou"
What is how Shakespeare says "you."
"We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love’s day."
What is alliteration?
What is hyperbole?
Signal words are "as a result," "because," "therefore"
What is cause and effect?
Support for an author's main point
What is evidence?
"doth"
What is how Shakespeare would say "do"?
“The sharp scent of lemon drifted from the glass.“
What is imagery?
"Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice"
What is a metaphor.
Signal words are "similarly" and "in contrast"
What is compare and contrast?
an appeal to emotion
What is pathos?
"Hark!"
What is how Shakespeare would say "listen"?
"O brawling love! O loving hate!"
What is an oxymoron?
"kill the envious moon, / Who is already sick and pale with grief"
What is personification?
Signal words are "for example," "to illustrate," and "for instance"
What is description?
an appeal to logic
What is logos?
Wherefore
What is how Shakespeare would say "why"?
"And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,"
"This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, 'Lenore!'"
What is onomatopoeia?
Achilles' heel: A weakness despite strength
What is an allusion?
Signal words are "issue," "dilemma," and "remedy"
What is problem and solution?
An appeal to the speaker's credibility
What is ethos?
"Hie"
What is how Shakespeare would say "hurry"?
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," the sailors are surrounded by sea but have no water to drink ("Water, water, every where / Nor any drop to drink").
What is irony?