Define Figurative Language
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
Simile
Which writing strategy defines the place and time of the story?
Setting
Identify the figurative language: I have to take a million tests this week.
Hyperbole
Identify the figurative language: The lovely lilies looked as lively as ever.
Alliteration.
Butterworth's favorite color?
What is purple?
Who is one of Butterworth's favorite bands?
Evanescence, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Three Dog Night
This type of figurative language occurs when one thing represents something else.
Symbolism
Which writing strategy refers to the creation of a character in a text?
Characterization
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Identify the figurative language: “Let it be the ballot or the bullet. Let him know that it must be the ballot or the bullet."
Repetition OR alliteration OR symbolsim
Butterworth's favorite sport
What is college football or baseball?
How long has Butterworth been married?
43 years
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
Personification
Which writing strategy vividly describes something using the 5 senses?
Imagery
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
Simile
Language that is meaningful, but not literally true.
Figurative language
What breed is Butterworth's little dog?
What is Maltese?
Mrs. Butterworth's is what type of figurative language?
Allusion
This type of figurative language compares two things directly (WITHOUT using like or as).
Metaphor
Which writing strategy defines when what happens is the opposite of what you'd expect to happen?
Irony
Identify the figurative language: The landscape reminded me of the Garden of Eden.
Allusion
I, we, me, us, etc.
How do you answer written questions in Butterworth's class?
Complete sentences
Butterworth believes better books were written in the classical period, is what type of figurative language?
Alliteration
Type of figurative language that references a person, place, event, or another text.
Allusion
Which writing strategy describes the tension in the story that must be resolved?
Conflict
In Tupac's poem, "The Rose that Grew from Concrete," the rose is an example of what kind of figurative language?
Symbolism
Point of view
What is Butterworth's birthday?
April 17
What is LSU's mascot name/
Mike VII