Figurative Language
This device gives non-human things human-like characteristics and descriptions.
What is personification?
Information is conveyed as an issue and solutions are proposed or explained.
What is problem and solution?
The attitude an author has toward a subject or idea in his writing.
What is tone?
The central idea or message of a work of literature. It is often expressed in a complete sentence as a statement about life.
What is theme?
The appeal to logic, using evidence, facts or data
What is Logos?
Creates a vivid image in the reader's mind of what is happening in the story or poem.
What is imagery?
This text structure uses signal words that include "alike," "different," "comparatively," and "opposite from."
What is compare and contrast?
The atmosphere of a piece of writing; the emotion a text creates in a reader through diction, figurative language and other choices.
What is mood?
A lengthy narrative poem, usually about the great deeds of extraordinary people who, in dealing with gods or supernatural forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.
What is epic poetry?
The appeal to ethics or authority. Usually an expert in a field will defend or speak on a particular position.
What is ethos?
This quote uses a figurative language device that compares two things. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is a simile?
Information is presented in sections that often begin with a central idea and are followed by an elaboration of features or examples of the subject at hand.
What is description?
These are the three reasons an author may write something (author's purpose).
What are persuade, inform, and entertain?
A generalization about life or human nature that can be understood across time and cultures.
What is universal theme?
The appeal to emotion. The speaker may provide an anecdote of a tragedy or other touching event to draw emotion out of the reader.
This quote uses a figurative language device that makes a connection between two things. "A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” – Benjamin Franklin
What is a metaphor?
This text structure has signal words that include "On, at (date, time)"; presently; following; and previously.
What is chronological?
The type of narration used (first-person, second-person, third-person); a way of looking at or thinking something.
What is perspective (or point of view)?
A style of writing that mocks, ridicules, or pokes fun at a person, belief, or group of people in order to challenge them.
What is satire?
This statement uses a rhetorical device used to draw the audience's attention to specific ideas: "Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit..."
What is alliteration?
"Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief, ..."
This excerpt of poetry makes an indirect reference to literature, culture or historical event using this figurative language device...
What is allusion?
Information is presented as a series of instructions or steps in a process.
What is sequencing/sequence?
The time, place and circumstances in which the events of a story may take place.
What is setting?
In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the readers know that the lovers are fated to die, but Romeo and Juliet do not. This is a particular type of irony.
What is dramatic (or narrative) irony?
This statement uses a rhetorical device designed to contrast conflicting ideas: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the age of belief, it was the age of incredulity..." - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
What is antithesis?