Examples of Figurative Language
Simile?
describes something as being easy to understand or do, as being plain or not elaborate, or as being ordinary or common.
Exposition
a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.
Description
a spoken or written representation or account of a person
Phrase
a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause.
A. C. E. Method
Analyze, Correct, and Empower.
Hyperbole
a rhetorical device that is mainly used to make something look and sound a lot better than it actually is.
Rising Action
the section of a story that leads toward its climax.
Cause and Effect
the relationship between two events or situations, where one of the two is the cause of the other.
Clause
a group of words that contains both a subject and a predicate.
Different POVs
1st person POV uses the pronouns “I” and “we.” 2nd person POV uses the pronoun “you.” 3rd person POV uses the pronouns “she,” “he,” “they,” and “it.”
Personifaction
the attribution of human characteristics to things, abstract ideas, etc, as for literary or artistic effect.
Climax
the most intense, exciting, or important point of something
Compare and Contrast
showing the similarities, and contrasting is showing differences between two things that are related in some way.
Simple Sentence
sentences that only have a subject and a predicate, and they express one complete thought.
Conflict
a struggle or clash between opposing forces
Onomatopoeia
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Falling Action
the period of time in a story that follows the climax and leads to the resolution.
Chronology/Sequence
a following of one thing after another in time.
Compound Sentence
a sentence that has at least two independent clauses joined by a comma, semicolon or conjunction.
Modifier
a word or phrase that describes another word or phrase, making it more specific.
Metaphor
a figure of speech that makes a non-literal comparison between two unlike things
Conclusion
the end or finish of an event or process.
Problem and Solution
a format of writing that where the structure of written text is laid out to show different problems and then how the problem is solved.
Complex Sentence
has one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
Main Idea
the central point or topic that a text or a paragraph conveys.