Figurative Language
A figure of speech that compares one thing to another, using words such as "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
A book that lists the words and gives their meaning, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage
What is a dictionary?
A novel that focuses on a group of British boys on an island stranded on an island and their attempt to govern themselves.
What is Lord of the Flies?
The attribution of human characters to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification?
A satirical allegory that tells a story about farm animals who rebel against their farmer.
What is Animal Farm?
A reference that is mentioned indirectly in a text where it is up to the audience to make the connection.
What is an allusion?
A book that tells the story of the narrator's passage from innocence to experience when her father confronts the racist justice system of the rural, Depression-era South.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
Two or more phrases or clauses in a sentence that have the same grammatical structure
What is parallelism?
A nonfiction book about an individual and his journey into the depths of the Alaskan wilderness.
What is Into the Wild?
A figure of speech in which a part of something is substituted for the whole or vice versa.
What is a synecdoche?
A dystopian novel that takes place in a world that deprives individuals of their name or independence.
What is Anthem?