Figurative Language
This is a word that sounds like the sound it is describing, like "boom," "hiss," or "crash."
(Double score if you spell it right!)
What is an onomatopoeia?
While argumentative reasoning appeals to logic and rational thought, persuasive techniques more often appeal to this.
What is emotion/feelings?
Besides a capital letter and end punctuation, a complete sentence needs these two other parts.
What are a subject and a predicate? (or a subject and a verb)
Added to words like "electric," "magic," or "mathematics," this suffix means someone who has a certain profession or does a certain thing.
What is "-ian/-cian"?
If the narrator of a story is the main character, and uses the words "I" and "my," the story is written from this point of view.
What is first-person POV?
If you compare two unlike things but do not fully explain the connection, instead saying one thing IS another, you are using this form of figurative language.
What is metaphor?
"Everyone's doing it, and so should you!" is the central message of this form of persuasion.
What is bandwagon?
In an essay, we put this sentence with our claim or main idea in the introduction paragraph.
What is the thesis/thesis sentence/thesis statement?
The suffix "-ize" typically turns a word into this part of speech.
What is a verb?
This is the overall message or lesson the author wants you to get out of the story, although they usually don't say it directly.
What is the theme?
"Little ladybugs like listening to love song lyrics" uses this poetic device.
What is alliteration?
These can be part of a logical argument, if the person involved is an expert on the topic, but more often they use popular celebrities and are methods of persuasion.
What are testimonials?
"I like apples but my mom prefers oranges."
This sentence would be grammatically correct if you added this.
In the vocabulary we studied, the prefix "pro-" added to a word meant this (multiple answers may be right).
What is forward/earlier than/prior to/before?
This is the term for all the actions that happen after and resulting from the climax of a story's conflict.
What is falling action?
"The blank page glared back at me, and I realized this project would take about a hundred years to finish." This sentence contains these two types of figurative language.
What are personification and hyperbole?
When we all decide together to use words like "we" and "us" instead of "I" and "me" (like we're doing in this prompt), it is this type of language.
What is inclusive language?
What are adjectives and adverbs?
We just learned this prefix that means "away from, down from, off of."
What is "de-"?
What is the antagonist?
This type of figurative language occurs what someone says or does the opposite of what you expect--like calling the Titanic "unsinkable."
What is irony?
If I am using facts and evidence, but I am only using the data that supports my viewpoint and ignoring everything else, we call it this (two possible terms).
What is cherry-picking or card-stacking?
When writing a complete answer to any prompt, we can use the acronym R.A.C.E.--which stands for this.
What is Restate the question, Answer all parts, Cite evidence, and Explain evidence.
Added to words like "mystery," "fame," or "infect," this suffix changes words into adjectives (multiple spellings accepted).
What is "-ous/-ious/-cious/-tious"?
An author might affect the mood and tone of a story using this, which means using sensory details to make the reader feel like they are there.
What is imagery?