Figurative Language
What is personification?
What is a compound-complex sentence?
Direct and Indirect
What are the two types of characterization?
The narrator is included in the story and uses words like "me," "I," and "we."
What is first person point of view?
The principal of Hoke County High School.
Ms. Pegram
He is as smart as a computer.
What is a simile?
FANBOYS
What are coordinating conjunctions?
The author directly describes the character.
What is direct characterization?
The author is trying to sell something or cause a call to action.
What is to persuade?
The content Mr. Simon teaches other than English.
This term refers to a figure of speech where contradictory terms appear in conjunction, such as "big shrimp."
What is an oxymoron?
The emotional connection we have or make with a word.
What is connotation?
Shrek is this type of character.
What is a round character?
The narrator is outside of the story and has access to the thoughts and feelings of other characters.
What is third person omniscent?
The amount of land used for Hoke County High School.
What is 62 acres?
This literary device involves the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase, like in the sentence: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun. Example: gentle, helpful, small
What is an adjectiv?
This type of character doesn't change throughout the text.
What is a static character?
The point of view also impacts this.
What is the author's perspective?
What is North Carolina Central University?
His charismatic charm made him a Casanova with the ladies.
What is an allusion?
Studying the author's choice and use of specific words in the text.
What is diction?
STEAL is used to analyze this type of characterization.
What is indirect characterization?
The author's purpose is to describe a noun.
What is to inform?
The superintendent of Hoke County Schools.
Who is Dr. Kenneth Spells?