Figurative Language
The water shined like gold.
Simile
When asked about her date, Audrey said, "He was a dog."
Metaphor
Define humdrum:
When summer ended, I was back to doing my humdrum tasks of school, work, and practice.
Dull
A group of lines separated from others.
Stanza
The three rhetorical appeals.
Bonus!! You can double the points if you can provide examples of each.
Ethos, pathos, logos
"It snowed on and on. It snowed endlessly."
Hyperbole
The wind whistled in my ear.
Personification
Writing that appeals to one or more of the senses.
Imagery
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a group of words.
Alliteration
The use of a question that does not actually warrant a response, just used for persuasion.
Rhetorical Question
Alyssa had a bittersweet moment when thinking back to her childhood.
Oxymoron
In the movie, The Devil's Arithmetic, Hannah told the girls the a story: The Wizard of Oz.
Allusion
The sequence of events in a literary work.
Plot
The pattern of end rhymes.
Rhyme Scheme
When an author is instructing, entertaining, or informing.
Author's Purpose
An object, a person, a situation, or an action that has a literal meaning in a story but suggests or represents other meanings.
Symbol
When the author shows you who the character is through speech, thoughts, other characters, or their actions.
+200 if you can identify and define the opposing term
Indirect Characterization
Direct Characterization: When the author tells you something directly about the character.
An author's specific way of writing.
Style
Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter
How a passage is organized (Compare/contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution, etc.)
A child runs away from someone throwing a water balloon at him and falls into the pool.
Situational Irony
After the student got the answer right, the teacher exclaimed, "You hit the nail on the head!"
Idiom
A short story told to present a message, theme, or idea to the reader.
Anecdote
Two consecutive lines that rhyme.
Four consecutive lines that have a rhyme scheme.
Couplet
Quatrain
The three types of evidence.
Bonus!! +100 if you can provide an example of one
Empirical, anecdotal, logical