Figurative Language
Figurative Language 2
Texts
MLA & Grammar
Scanning Poetry
100
This is an example of an original metaphor.
What is ________________________?
100
This is a sentence in 2nd person narration.
What is _________________________?
100
What is the name of Odysseus' son?
What is Telemachus?
100
This is why one should avoid contractions in academic writing.
What is sounding informal?
100
This is what an iamb means.
What is unstressed and stressed syllables?
200
This is an example of an original simile.
What is _______________________?
200
This is a sentence using verbal irony.
What is ______________________?
200
This is why Amir is considered a hero in The Kite Runner.
What is ____________________________?
200
These are the places in which you need transitions in an academic essay.
What is between paragraphs and before quotes?
200
This is what iambic pentameter means.
What is 5 iambs in one line of poetry?
300
This is an example of original personification.
What is ______________________?
300
This is the one novel that we have read in class that was an allegory. This is why it is an allegory.
What is Animal Farm, because the entire story is an extended metaphor for the corruption of Marxism during the Russian Revolution?
300
This is the historical figure that Old Major represented.
What Karl Marx?
300
Correctly cite a quote in MLA format.
What is _____________________________?
300
Scanning this: "I do not like green eggs and ham / I do not like them, Sam I am"
What is _______________________?
400
This is an example of original tactile imagery.
What is _____________________?
400
These are all the structural parts that make up an English sonnet.
What are 14 lines, iambic pentameter, ABAB rhyme scheme, volta, and rhyming couplet at the end?
400
These are a few steps of the Hero's Journey using examples from the non-fictional text Enrique's Journey.
What is ____________________?
400
Out of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person narration, this/these is/are the one(s) you avoid in an academic paper.
What are 1st and 2nd person, unless quoted?
400
Scanning this: "More worthy I to be beloved of thee"
What is ___________________?
500
This is an example of an original ironic situation.
What is ________________________?
500
This is enjambment? This is why an author might use enjambment in a poem.
What is a line of poetry that continues onto the next line without grammatically correct punctuation, AND in order to engage in double meanings?
500
This is why Odysseus is a classic Greek hero.
What is ____?
500
This is how a high school thesis statement and essay differs from a middle school thesis statement and essay.
What is no need for a 3-pt. thesis statement?
500
Scanning this: For that same groan doth put this in my mind / My grief lies onward, and my joy behind
What is __________________?
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