Figurative Language
A figure of speech that compares two different things in an interesting way using the word "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
The feeling the author is trying to convey.
What is mood?
A person, place, or thing.
What is Noun?
A particular tone created when the speaker intends a meaning that is the opposite to the words they say.
What is Irony?
What is Dictionary?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things
What is Metaphor?
The author's message or lesson to be learned.
What is theme?
A sentence that connects two independent clauses.
What is Compound Sentence?
A situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.
What is Situational Irony?
A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
What is Dialogue?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is Personification?
What is stanza?
A written symbol that appears as a sequence of dots, usually three (…)
What is an Ellipsis?
When the audience knows something that the characters don't it is this type of irony.
What is Dramatic Irony?
These are the three types of appeals.
What are Ethos, Logos, and Pathos?
“There's enough food in the cupboard to feed an entire army!” is an example of this figurative language.
What is Hyperbole?
A description engages the reader's sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste, they are using this literary device.
Sensory Imagery
Words that link nouns, pronouns, and their adjectives to other words in the sentence.
What is Preposition?
When the literal meaning of what someone says is different from—and often opposite to—what they actually mean, it is this kind of irony.
What is Verbal Irony?
The base form of a verb
What is Infinitive?
"They knew that the principal was coming because they heard the jingle of his keys" is this kind of figurative language.
What is Onomatopoeia?
A sonnet has this many lines in it.
What is 14?
It refers to the syntactical structure of words, phrases, sentences, & it creates structural similarity.
What is Parallelism?
The art of making someone or something look ridiculous, raising laughter in order to embarrass, humble, or discredit its targets.
A clause that generally modifies a noun or a noun phrase and is often introduced by a relative pronoun.