Figurative Language 1
Comparing two unlike things that have something in common. The comparison is made by using like or as.
What is a simile?
Comparing two unlike things that have something in common. The comparison is made without the use of like or as. Often a metaphor uses words like is, are, or were.
What is a metaphor?
Giving human qualities and traits (emotions, speech, physical gestures) to nonhuman objects.
What is personification?
The forming of a word by imitating the sound the word is referring to
What is onomatopoeia?
A person or character’s opinion or the way they see the world.
What is perspective?
The author’s attitude towards the writing (the characters, the situation) and the readers.
What is tone?
The opposite of what is expected.
What is irony?
The emotional feeling or atmosphere that a work of literature produces in a reader
What is mood?
An exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
Hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader can use to understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words.
What is context clues?
Clues or hints that suggest what will happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing
The author interrupts the plot of the story to recreate an event.
What is flashback?
Descriptive words and phrases (can be similes, metaphors, etc.) that appeal to the reader's senses allowing them to create mental images.
What is imagery?
A saying, phrase, or fixed expression in a culture that has a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
The choice and use of words in writing.
What is diction?
A type of irony where there is a difference between what is spoken or written and what is really meant.
What is verbal irony?
The use of symbols (object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself, and that also stands for something larger than itself).
What is symbolism?
The repetition of sounds, most often consonant sounds, at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
A type of irony that occurs when there is a contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
What is situational irony?
A feeling (positive/ negative) that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning.
What is connotation?
A type of irony that occurs when the audience or reader knows something the characters don’t know.
What is dramatic irony?
A reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.
What is allusion?
Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning different from the literal interpretation.
What is figurative language?
The literal or primary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?