Words to Know
Professional or academic language; sometimes uses more difficult (big) words.
What is formal language?
To feel sentimental means...
to feel emotional, lovey-dovey, mushy, romantic, tear-jerking.
Animal Farm by George Orwell - A little way down that pasture there was a hill that commanded a view of most of the farm. The animals rushed to the top of it and gazed around them in the clear morning light. Yes, it was theirs-- everything that they could see was theirs! In the ecstasy of that thought they played round and round, they hurled themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement. Describe the mood of this passage.
What is happy, overjoyed, ecstatic, excited, victorious!?
The person that narrates a poem.
Who is the speaker/narrator?
the feeling a reader gets from reading a poem
What is mood?
The text shows an issue and then offers a way to resolve that issue.
What is problem and solution.
To feel reflective means to...
To think back, meditate on the past.
"The Bean Eaters" by Gwendolyn Brooks - They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair. / Dinner is a casual affair. Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, / Tin flatware. Describe the mood.
What is apathetic, complacent, nonchalant, unconcerned?
language that is not meant to be taken literally
What is figurative language?
Use of words that imitate sounds... Ex. Buzz, hiss, sizzle, neigh, etc.
What is onomatopoeia?
words that have the same meaning
What are synonyms?
To be sarcastic means to...
To mock someone, scornful, to say the opposite of what is meant.
"The Bully" by Paul Langan - Each step required great effort, as if his feet were made of concrete. Even the money in his pockets felt uncomfortably heavy, and every muscle in his legs and back felt slow and achy. It was as if his body was quietly protesting what he was doing. Durrell knew that paying Tyray was wrong. The shame and guilt he felt for giving his mother's money to a bully swept over him in unending waves. Describe the mood.
What is heavy-hearted, guilty, ashamed?
To make an educated guess based on the information in a passage and your prior knowledge.
What is an inference?
attributing human qualities to non-human things
What is personification?
words that have the opposite meaning
What are antonyms?
To be optimisitic means to...
to think only the best will happen, to be hopeful.
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe - I know not how it was-- but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I looked upon the scene before me-- upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain-- upon the bleak walls-- upon the vacant eye-like windows-- upon a few rank hedges-- and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees-- with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation. Describe the mood.
What is gloomy, nervous, depressed, dreary?
words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses
What is imagery?
a figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
What is a simile?
destination, goal, intention, mission, objective
What is purpose?
To be remorseful means to...
to BE sorry for doing something; to be regretful.
"My Sweet Baby" by Amy - My life was a mess / my head constantly spinning / I didn't know what to do / so I prayed for a new beginning / I wished for you / but when my wish came true I didn't have a clue what to.........
Describe the mood.
What is bewildered, confused, frustrated, hopeful?
a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else (a comparison that is suggested or implied without using "like" or "as")
What is metaphor?
a group of lines of poetry that are unusually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces. Like a paragraph of poetry.
What is a stanza?