Example
"Her phone buzzed like a beehive."
What is simile
“touching the ball like an ancient relic of Africa”
What is a simile
Repetition
What are words, phrases, lines, or sounds are intentionally repeated to emphasize a message, create rhythm, evoke emotion, or build a sense of urgency
a figure of speech that compares two people, objects, elements, or concepts using “like” or “as.”
What is a Simile
What does C.A.F.E. stand for?
What is...
Comprehension
Accuracy
Fluency
Expanding Vocabulary
“It’s time to spill the beans about your surprise vacation plans!”
What is idiom
"As her mother like to say, Isabel could play the storm clouds from the sky."
What is idiom
Hyperbole
What is a great exaggeration, often unrealistic, to add emphasis to a sentiment.
a figure of speech that refers to one thing by another in order to identify similarities between the two (and therefore define each in relation to the other).
What is a Metaphor
Comprehension means...
What is... I understand what I read
“I have a million things to do.”
What is hyperbole
"So this was the last verse, Isabel thought. After everything they'd been through, after everything they'd lost, their climactic ending wasn't going to be climactic after all."
What is a metaphor
Symbolism
What is to the use of representational imagery: the writer employs an image with a deeper, non-literal meaning, for the purpose of conveying complex ideas.
The ways in which individual characters are represented by the narrator or author of a text. This includes descriptions of the characters’ physical appearances, personalities, actions, interactions, and dialogue.
What is Characterization
What is Mr.W's favorite soccer team?
What is...points for one of the three (no extra unless you get ALL THREE)
Nottingham Forrest
Fiorentina
FC Barcelona
“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight-thirty and still light.”
What is metaphor
“where ideas kiss similes so deeply that metaphors get jealous”
What is personification
Idiom
What is a commonly used phrase or expression that, when taken as a whole, has a meaning that differs from the literal meanings of the individual words.
A term used to describe an author’s use of vivid descriptions “that evoke sense-impressions by literal or figurative reference to perceptible or ‘concrete’ objects, scenes, actions, or states” (Baldick 121). Imagery can refer to the literal landscape or characters described in a narrative or the theoretical concepts an author employs.
What is Imagery
When is the best time to begin your reading and or any other homework?
What is, as soon as possible
"We saw lights dance in the distance."
What is personification
"They kept arguing, but the engine and the slap of the boat against the waves drowned their words out for Isabel."
What is onomatopoeia?
onomatopoeia
What is words that represent sounds, with pronunciations similar to those sounds
An indirect reference to a figure, event, place, or work of art outside the story. It is typically not explained or explicitly pointed out. Often referencing well-known or famous elements, they can also draw from obscure knowledge, which may go unnoticed by many readers.
What is an allusion
What is Mr.W's favorite coffee shop...
What is any local one...but he will find an answer to this by the end of Trimester one...so keep an ear open to it