Figurative Language
A comparison that uses like or as.
What is a simile?
The time and place of a story.
Appeals to logic.
What is logos?
The audience knows something that characters don't.
What is dramatic irony?
"Now everything is particular and distinct, the house a nosy child’s dreamworld."
What central idea does this quote best develop?
a. The narrator spends much of her childhood with a filtered perspective of her environment.
b. The narrator experiences a change that sharpens her perspective of her environment.
b. The narrator experiences a change that sharpens her perspective of her environment.
Giving human characteristics to nonliving things.
What is personification?
Hints that clue at later events in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Appeals to emotions.
What is pathos?
The opposite of what is expected to happen occurs.
What is situational irony?
“‘I have a great deal of vivacity in my own way, but I really must be allowed to judge when to speak and when to hold my tongue.’”
Which emotion is mainly expressed in this sentence?
a. insincerity
b. annoyance
c. embarrassment
b. annoyance
A reference to an existing person, place, event, or literary work.
What is an allusion?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
Appeals to ethics/credibility.
What is ethos?
A common type of verbal irony that is used in everyday life.
What is sarcasm?
"The teacher finally guesses something is wrong—maybe she sees my contorting face—and moves me to the front row where even while squinting my eyes into slits, I still cannot make anything out."
Based on the sentence, what does the word contorting mean?
a. hiding uncertainty
b. twisting out of shape
c. displaying amusement
d. blushing with embarrassment
b. twisting out of shape
I picked up the four leaf clover for good luck. I noticed it right away; it spoke to me.
What is symbolism and personification?
The way an author feels towards a subject.
What is tone?
The goal of ethos, logos, pathos.
What is to persuade?
The type of irony that occurs when Macbeth acts shocked about King Duncan's death.
What is dramatic irony?
"Speaking without listening, hearing without understanding is like snipping an electrical cord in two, then plugging it in anyway, hoping somehow that something will light up."
What does the use of figurative language in the sentence mainly help the reader understand?
a. the outcome of one-sided communication
b. the pain caused by disputes between friends
c. the difficulty of forming well-balanced relationships
d. the stress caused by contemporary social demands
a. the outcome of one-sided communication
When I stumbled outside I could smell the rain and feel it dancing upon my head. The socks in my sneakers started to get wet and I heard the slushing sounds of a car driving through a puddle.
What is imagery, personification, and onomatopoeia?
Character vs. Character, Character vs. World, and Character vs. Nature are examples of this literary term.
What is conflict?
Where you may find rhetorical devices being used (You need 2 answers).
Advertisements, speeches, commercials, debates.
The reason that Lady Macbeth fainting is ironic.
What is she is the person who organized the killing of the King?
“Yes, yes, pray pass me,” added her husband, with a sort of sneering consciousness; “I have nothing to say that can entertain Miss Woodhouse, or any other young lady. An old married man—quite good for nothing. Shall we walk, Augusta?”
Which word best describes the husband's tone in the paragraph?
a. serious c. dismayed
b. sarcastic d. discouraged
b. sarcastic