Figurative Language
This compares two similar things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
This is a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This involves logic, and facts.
What is logos?
This is a word with a similar meaning to another.
What is a synonym?
These words are used to link words, phrases, or sentences. They help the reader to progress from one idea (expressed by the author) to the next idea. Thus, they help to build up coherent relationships within the text.
What are transition words?
This compares two similar things using like or as?
What is a simile?
This is the action in a sentence or a state of being.
What is a verb?
This involves evoking intense emotions of sadness, happiness, sympathy, etc.
What is pathos?
This is a word with the opposite meaning.
What is an antonym?
These are stanzas.
What are the paragraphs of the poems called?
What is an overexaggeration of something, "He is as tall as a giraffe!"
A hyperbole
This is a word that is used to describe a noun. Some examples are tall, short, fat, skinny, brilliant, dull, pretty, and ugly.
What is an adjective?
This involves milder emotions and the character of the author.
What is ethos?
This is a group of letters that appears at the front of a word. It affects the meaning of the root (base) word to which it is attached.
What is a prefix?
This the process of selecting and integrating details that support, explain, illustrate, and/or develop ideas.
What is elaboration?
This is a word that is represented by a sound. Some examples are "bam", "pow", or "boom".
What is onomatopoeia?
This is a word that describes verbs as well as adjectives. Some examples are slowly, quickly, magically, wonderfully, and carefully.
What is an adverb?
This is used when you give human characteristics to to an object. One example is, "I could not get enough sleep as the wind was howling all night”.
What is personification?
It is a word component that is placed at the end of the main word. Some of the popular one include "ing", "ed", "ish", "es", "able", "est", etc.
What is a suffix?
This is the continued use of the same word or word pattern.
What is repetition?
This is the literary device that uses the same initial consonant sound frequently throughout? An example would be, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
This word takes the place of a noun such as "he", "she", "it", "they", etc.
What is a pronoun?
It refers to the overall mood and message of your book. It’s established through a variety of means, including voice, characterization, symbolism, and themes. It sets the feelings you want your readers to take away from the story.
What is tone?
It's the most basic part of a word.
What is the root?
This is a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.
What is a citation?