Figurative Language
This 8 letters acronym can be used to remember some common types of figurative language:
What is "I S.H.A.M.P.O.O"?
This is known as the author's thought. Authors usually use text evidence to support this statement.
Whats is THE AUTHOR'S CLAIM?
This strategy is commonly used when answering multiple choice questions. It involves getting rid of the answer that must be incorrect one by one.
What is THE PROCESS OF ELIMINATION?
This act is usually defined as making an educated guess based observations of the facts.
What is MAKING AN INFERENCE?
This type of figurative language uses the 5 senses to paint vivid pictures for the reader:
What is IMAGERY?
Descriptions of the place and/or time when event happens usually refers to description of the ______.
What is THE SETTING?
This strategy involves adding brackets [__] every two to three paragraphs; after each bracket one would write the main idea of the chunk read.
What is CHUNKING?
These are words or short phrases that lead your readers through your writing. They signal when you are about to give evidence, analysis, or move from one part of the writing to the next.
What are TRANSITIONAL PHRASES?
These two examples of figurative language can be considered sisters; they both do the job of making a comparison.
What are a SIMILE AND A METAPHOR?
Realistic characters do three things:
What is?
1)Use dialogue
2) Have inner thoughts
3) Perform realistic actions
This strategy involves breaking down the prompt and strategizing about how you will write your extended response. It usually involves using bullet points and extracting the evidence you will use from the text.
What is CREATING A PLANNING PAGE?
This is known as providing background information to let the readers know the information surrounding an unknown term; this helps the reader get the full picture
What is CONTEXT OR CONTEXT CLUES?
What type of figurative language is used in the example below:
The smile on her face stretched for miles, it was clear that her sweet 16 would be the most important day of her life!
What is a HYPERBOLE?
This is usually known as the attitude the author or the speaker; in ELA terms this is called the author's ______.
What is THE TONE?
What is the THEME?
What is THE STORY ARC?
Which type of figurative language is dominant in the stanza below:
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
These are the 4 types of evidence we have reviewed in detail:
What are:
1) Statistics
2) Facts
3) Quotes
4) Anecdotes/personal stories
?
The following terms are usually found at the start of questions, when you see them, what are you being asked to do?
- HOW
- WHY
-WHAT
What is?
- HOW: STEPS/PROCESS
- WHY: REASON
-WHAT: IDENTIFY
This is the act of looking at the connection between the claim and the evidence provided; when we evaluate this connection we are testing the evidences R_____.
What is RELEVANCE?