Figurative Language
Descriptive or figurative language that evokes one, or multiple of the five senses.
Imagery
The speaker or author's attitude toward their subject is the text's...
Tone
Dialogue: Two characters speaking to one another in a work of drama.
Soliloquy: A character speaks to themselves to revel their thoughts or feelings.
A poem made up of 14 lines, three quatrains and one couplet, with an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme is called a...
Shakesperean Sonnet
Words quoted from a text that are used to support a claim or answer.
Textual Evidence
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities is...
Symbolism
Diction
What are stage directions?
An instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
Giving something non-living, living or human traits in a poem is called...
Personification
The APE strategy for short answer responses is...
Answer
Prove (Or provide evidence)
Explain
A figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event of cultural significance. There are five types of these. Name the term and provide the five different types.
Allusion: Historic, Pop Cultural, Literary, Mythological, Biblical
Identifying the topic of the text, and the message the author is trying to get across about that topic, will give you the text's, what?
Theme
Which of the following is not alliteration?
-John Jay High School
-Hungry Hungry Hippos
-Shoot for the stars
-Tommy played tennis yesterday.
Shoot for the stars.
How can I determine the best quote to use from a text to support my answer when answering a short answer response.
Make sure the quote is relevant to the answer I am providing to ensure that it supports my answer. I can ask myself, "Does the quote relate to my answer and does it prove the point I am trying to make? Can I explain it's significance after I quote it?"
"The stool stood straight in the kitchen" is an example of what two types of figurative language?
Personification and Alliteration
The protagonist and antagonist from Hamlet could be best exemplified by which two characters?
Claudius - Antagonist
What can the stage directions tell us about characters?
Who they are speaking too, who they are speaking with, the character's inner feelings, and the character's relationships to other characters.
Besides length and rhyme, what is the difference between how a poet uses the quatrains and the couplet in a Shakespearean sonnet?
In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme, or problem and in the couplet, the resolution.
What is the purpose of figurative language?
To create a sense of poetry within writing, or to "spice it up", and create mental images.
A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.
Mood.
What is the subplot within the play Hamlet?
Fortinbras and his army moving into Denmark to take over and avenge his own father, King Fortinbras', death.