Figurative Language
Holding a petty grudge is like walking on a treadmill. You never move forward and you eventually end up tiring yourself out.
Analogy
What is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure.
Parallelism
What Diction or Word Choice is this an example of?
The tallest building in town is the library — it has thousands of stories!
Pun
What Author's Craft is this?
The main subject that is being discussed or described in a piece of writing, a movie, etc.
Theme
Fill in the blank.
Logos appeals to the audience's sense of logic or _____.
reason
What is the definition of an Idiom.
An idiom is a phrase or expression that usually presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase (e.g., raining cats and dogs, see the light ).
What is this an example of?
"What plant is not faded?"
Rhetorical question
What Diction or Word Choice is this?
The meaning that a word suggests or implies. Includes the emotions or associations that surround a word.
Connotation
What Author's Craft is this an example of?
In Romeo and Juliet the characters die by suicide because they don't know each other's plans. We the audience are aware of their plans though.
Dramatic Irony
What Rhetorical device is this an example of?
A teenager tries to convince his parents to buy him a new car by saying if they cared about their child's safety they'd upgrade him.
Pathos
What is "The Tortoise and the Hare" an example of?
An Allegory. (a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.)
What structural technique or element is this an example of?
I saw a big monstrous bear with 5 sharp shiny claws on each humongous paw.
Description
What Diction or Word Choice is this an example of?
“Ah ain' seen nuh'in, gubnah” (I ain't seen nothing, governor).
Dialect
What is Mood?
The general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader or the emotion the author strives to evoke in the reader.
Fill in the blank.
______ involves the readers feelings or _________ being appealed to.
Pathos, emotions
A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually valid or true. Ex. "it was the beginning of the end."
Paradox
Vanessa had a strange feeling the whole time she was walking home. On her walk she spotted a weird statue she had never seen before standing in front of her neighbors house. She thought to herself "Has that always been there?". Not long after she finally made it home there was a loud beating on the door. She went to look out the side window and saw the statue standing in front of the door with a new creepy smile on its face.
Foreshadowing
What is Denotation?
The literal dictionary definition of a word.
What Author's Craft is this an example of?
An English teacher has poor grammar.
Situational Irony
What Rhetorical device is this an example of?
"You should buy my old car because yours is broken and mine is the only one on sale."
Logos
Rony said to Dave "It seems like the waves are starting to get a little higher" as a Tsunami was approaching them.
Understatement
What's an Anecdote.
A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. Usually has a point, such as to communicate an abstract idea about a person, place, or thing through the concrete details of a short narrative or to characterize by delineating a specific quirk or trait.
What Diction or Word Choice is this an example of?
saying “passed away” instead of the “died”.
Euphemism
What Author's Craft is this?
The writer's attitude or feeling about the subject that he or she is presenting.
Tone
If a source or author is proven to have a _______ character and appeals to ______. Their using _______.
character, ethics, ethos.