Figurative Language definitions Part 1
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
"... Poised in midair
Like storybook sea monsters."
(Slam, Dunk, & Hook)
What is a simile?
"It helps that
the morning air glides cool
like a constant washcloth
against my face."
(Inside Out & Back Again)
What is simile?
What does Connie think about her grandmother's visit?
She doesn't like it. She thinks it is pointless.
A group of lines in poetry
What is a stanza?
The pattern of end rhymes (example abab cdcd efef gg)
What is rhyme scheme?
"I wake up with
dragonflies
zipping through
my gut"
(Inside Out & Back Again)
What is onomatopoeia?
"Her eyes were now like stars: in all the world there was no other such beauty."
(The Invisible One)
What is simile?
The theme is that you should not make others feel like they are nothing and you should respect your family.
Giving human qualities to something non-human
What is personification?
An over-exaggeration for emphasis or effect
What is hyperbole?
" ... the pier at Gulfport where
riggings of shrimp boats are loose stitches
In a sky threatening rain ... "
(Theories of Time and Space)
What is a metaphor?
"My new teacher has brown curls
looped tight to her scalp
like circles in a beehive."
(Inside Out & Back Again)
What is simile
How does Connie feel when Grandmother gets lost in church?
She is embarrassed.
The use of an object to represent an complex or abstract idea
What is symbolism?
Repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
"... Nothing but a hot
Swish of strings of silk
Ten feet out ..."
(Slam, Dunk, & Hook)
What is either alliteration or onomatopoeia?
"Muscles were a bright motor
Double-flashing to the metal hoop"
What is metaphor
What motivates Constancia to act how does towards Abuela?
Connie is motivated by what other people think about her, not by respect for her family.
Repetition of sentence structure such as similar sentence patterns or similar parts of speech.
What is parallel structure?
Vivid descriptive language that appeals to the five senses
What is imagery?
Ricky Racoon ran round the raspberry bush.
What is alliteration?
"My great-grandmother. I would've like to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn't marry."
(The House on Mango Street)
What is metaphor?
Does Connie change at the end of the story?
Yes, she is ashamed of herself for how she has treated Abuela.
An indirect reference to a person, time, place, literary work, etc. that is brief.
What is allusion?