Figurative Language
A comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This is a type of genre that is made up.
What is fiction?
A punctuation mark to end a sentence
What is the period?
The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
What is Ms. Rice's favorite band?
What is Paramore?
A comparison that does not use "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
This is fact. It gives information.
What is non-fiction?
a punctuation mark indicating a pause, typically between two complete sentences, that is more pronounced than that indicated by a comma
What is a semicolon?
a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.
What is a narrator?
The four Hogwarts houses.
What are Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff.
The clouds were crying.
What is personification?
an idea that applies to anyone regardless of cultural differences, or geographic location
What is a universal theme?
a short extract from a film, broadcast, or piece of music or writing
What is an excerpt?
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
a belief or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
What is an opinion?
An exaggeration. Ex. I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow!
What is a hyperbole.
a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries
What is a connotative meaning?
bitterness or ill feeling.
What is acrimony?
a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong
What is an argument?
an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word
What is an acronym?
When something happens that is the opposite of what you would expect.
What is irony?
A literal meaning
What is denotative meaning?
the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence
What is the parallel structure?
an author's reason for or intent in writing
What is the author's purpose?
a method of persuasion based on evidence and reasoning
What is a logical appeal?