Figurative Language
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
Point of view that uses "I"
What is first person point of view?
A noun
What is subject?
The author's attitude towards a subject
What is tone?
When an animal or object is given human characteristics
What is personification?
Appeal to logic
What is logos
A verb
What is predicate?
Universal message of a piece of writing
What is theme?
"It's raining cats and dogs" is this.
What is an idiom?
Term for the main opponent or enemy in literature
What is antagonist?
An incomplete sentence
What is a fragment?
The highest point of action or conflict in a story
What is climax?
Exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
Appeal to authority
What is ethos?
What is the error in this sentence: "The soccer team won their game last night by a score of 2-0"
Pronoun number - Should be "won its game"
This is on the cover of The Catcher in the Rye
What is a carousel or merry-go-round?
Words like "bang" "bop" "zoom"
What is onomatopoeia?
If you can't trust the person telling the story you might call them this.
What is an unreliable narrator?
The type of clause that can stand on its own
What is an independent clause?
The two components of a thesis statement
What are claim + reasons?
"Alligators aggregate approximately 3 meters away" is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
Who is the antagonist and protagonist in the Lion King?
Scar/Simba
Use the correct word in this sentence:
I went to [they're, there, their] house after school to finish a project.
What is their?
The author of a "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
"Fair is foul; foul is fair" is an example of this
What is paradox?
A repeating symbol/theme throughout a novel
What is a motif?
Wording like FOR AND NOR BUT OR are called _______ conjunctions
What are coordinating conjunctions?
Organic chicken need to have access to outdoor space in order to be considered "____ ______"
Free Range
When one word is replaced by a word that is closely associated with is (i.e. calling the king "the crown")
What is metonymy?
Two things that are opposite placed right next to each other
What is juxtaposition?
"I hate swimming, water always gets in my nose" is an example of this punctuation error
What is a comma splice?
The name of the 'Seer' who warned to girls about Cecilia's monster children in Summer of the Mariposas
Teresita