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"She is cute as a button"
Simile
"Boom! Wham! Pow!"
Onomatopoeia
"I had a billion things to do for homework"
Hyperbole
The sound of the door slamming in the wind was as loud as a bomb.
Simile
"From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour fire"
- Robert Frost
Rhyme
"It's raining cats and dogs."
Idiom
What is the message of a piece of literature called?
Theme
"But oh heart! Heart! Heart!
Repetition
The fat cat sat on the mat.
Rhyme
The author's attitude
Tone
The tree branches danced in the wind.
Personification
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
Alliteration
The rhetorical strategy in which the speaker appeals to reputation or credibility.
Ethos
I'd rather take a bath with man-eating sharks than do my homework.
Hyperbole
Mood
What technique has to do with touch, taste, smell, sight, or sound?
Imagery
My life is a dream of wonders.
Metaphor
Their friendship is a rollercoaster ride.
Metaphor
Rhetoric
To analyze and then explain.
Explicate
What is placing two things that directly oppose each other near one another to compare the two things called?
Ex. "Love is like a soft cushion to sleep on while hate is a stone"
Juxtaposition
What is the emotional definition of a word, versus its dictionary definition?
Ex. "Her shoes are cheap."
Connotation
A recurring subject or topic that leads to the theme.
Motif
The determining focus of an essay: focus plus three claims.
Thesis or thesis statement
Which type of punctuation goes inside the quotation marks in an MLA in-text citation?
Question or exclamation mark