Figurative Language
Vocab
Author's Craft
Vocab II
Mixed Bag
100
What figurative language is used in the following: "Their mother is tired all the time from buttoning, bottling, and babying."
What is alliteration?
100

A text dealing partly with a writer’s own life while also containing fictional or invented elements.

What is semi-autobiographical?

100

This quote is an example of which writing style? "Keep away from him, she says. He is full of danger. Benny and Blanca own the corner store. They're okay except don't lean on the counter. Two girls raggedy as rats live across the street. You don't want to know them."

What is short sentences or stream of consciousness?

100
The act of discriminating or acting on a prejudice.
What is discrimination?
100
Spanish for neighborhood.
What is barrio?
200
What figurative language is being used here: "The wheels are all wobbly like spaghetti." "His limbs were flopping all over the place like untied shoes."
What is a simile?
200
applying to everyone; occurring everywhere
What is universal?
200
what makes the writing style unique in the following: A very fat lady crossing the street says, You sure got quite a load there. Rachel shouts, You got quite a load there too. She is very sassy.
What is not using quotes?
200
Able to be interpreted in different ways.
What is ambiguous?
200
Adopting the ways of another culture and becoming a part of this different society.
What is assimilation?
300
What figurative language is used in the following quote: "Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor."
What is a metaphor?
300
A short descriptive literary sketch that is rich and meaningful
What is a vignette?
300
What are the writing styles used in this quote from the book? "Marin says that if she stays here next year, she's going to get a real job downtown because that's where the best jobs are, since you always get to look beautiful and get to wear nice clothes and can meet someone in the subway who might marry you and take you to live in a big house far away."
What are run on sentences or stream of consciousness?
300

A place or group that is different from those surrounding it

What is an enclave?

300
The following is an example of what writing style? "And since Marin's skirts are shorter and since her eyes are pretty, and since Marin is already older that us in many ways, the boys who do pass by say stupid things like I am in love with those two green apples you call eyes."
What are run on sentences?
400
"Poof!" is an example of what figurative language?
What is onomatopoeia?
400
accomplished writers compare, analyze, interpret, and evaluate literature.
What is literary criticism?
400
What writers style is being used here? "Jose, Dagoberto, Alicia, Raul, Edna, Alma, and Rickey"
What is listing?
400
Regarded as outsiders or outcasts.
What is marginalized?
400
The following is an example of what writing style: "Laundromat, junk store, drugstore windows, and cars and more cars."
What is listing?
500

This is an example of what figurative language? "girl’s grey sock and a lady’s high heel" (p. 40)

What is juxtaposition?

500
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is pronoun?
500
Which writing style is being used in the following quote: "The shy ice cream bells' giggles of Rachel and Lucy's family."
What is unusual descriptions
500
Referring to a social group that has a common national or cultural heritage.
What is ethnic?
500
The noun that the pronoun refers to.
What is antecedent?
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