Figurative language
What is a hyperbole?
exaggerated expressions or statements
what is pathos?
to persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel.
Which Poetic Device fits the following description?"Giving humanistic or animalistic qualities to an inanimate object".
A.Oxymoron
B.Personification
C.Simile
D.Alliteration
B.personification
what is the definition of strife?
Angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict
What is a plot?
The plot is the sequence of events in a story.
what is a simile?
compares things using "like" or "as".
What is ethos?
the writers attempt to persuade by appealing to the reader's moral values.
Characters are the people, animals, and other individuals during the story.
True
False
True
What is logical appeal?
the attempt to prove an argument or persuade an audience through the use of logic, reason, data, and facts.
What is theme?
Theme is the story's message or central idea.
What figurative language is this statement?
The wind sung making the tall green trees dance.
Personification
What is a rhetorical question?
questions that are asked without expecting an answer.
What is the definition of juxtaposition?
placing two things side by side so as to highlight their differences. Writers use it for rhetorical effect.
What is setting?
setting is where the story occurs.
When the tire blew it made a loud PoP!
Onomatopoeia
What is logos?
to appeal to the audiences' sense of reason or logic.
They didn't reach an agreement ______ their differences.
a.on account of
b.due
c.because
d.owing
A. on account of
what is the definition of pathos?
a quality that evokes pity or sadness.
What is irony?
irony creates contrast within the story.
I see her every once in a blue moon.
Idiom
what is repetition?
putting multiple iterations of a word or phrase in close proximity to each other.
Last year, when I last met her, she told me she _____ a letter every day for the last two months.
a.had written
b.has written
c.had been writing
d.wrote
C. had been writing
what is the definition of a mar?
impair the appearance of; disfigure
What is foreshadowing?
When the author of the story hints at what is yet to come next.