Figurative Language/Literary Elements 1
A comparison using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
What is tone?
A comparison NOT using the words "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
When several words in a sentence begin with the same letter -- example: An Avalanche of Aspirin
What is alliteration?
A reference to history, culture, or another literary work.
What is an allusion?
A comparison between human and non-human objects.
The mode of narration in a story (ex. first-person, second-person...)
What is point-of-view?
An exaggeration -- "I haven't gone to the gym in about a million years."
What is hyperbole?
The feeling a writer wants to create for a reader.
What is mood?
How many pieces of evidence you should use in a successful Constructed Response answer.
What is two?
Word choice.
What is diction?
An assertion or claim that comes at the end of an introductory paragraph.
What is a thesis sentence?
When you compare non-human things to human beings.
What is personification?
The decisions an author makes to persuade, affect, or influence an audience.
What is rhetoric?
The words you should pay closest attention to in a multiple choice or constructed response question.
What are qualifying words?
Language specific to a region (ex. "jawn" in Philly).
What is dialect?
The close examination of an object's elements, structure, and/or purpose.
What is analysis?
Imagery -- ex. "In the hard-packed dirt of the midway... you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard drippings..."
What is the word for language that appeals to the senses?
An extended metaphor that runs through a whole story -- ex. The Lottery is an __________ for small town America.
What is allegory?
The recommended order for tackling Keystone Multiple Choice and Constructed Response Questions.
What is answering the Constructed response first and the multiple choice questions second?
When what happens is the opposite of what you would expect.
What is irony?
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
When the audience knows something that the characters are unaware of.
What is dramatic irony?
The name of a story by Kafka that is an allegory for alienation in the work force.
What is The Metamorphosis?