Figurative Language
My mother’s kitchen was like a holy place: you couldn’t wear your shoes, you had to sit there at a certain time, and occasionally we’d pray.
Identify the figurative language.
Simile
What does an apple symbolize?
knowledge
What kind of meter is made up of a three-syllabic foot and follows the rhythm of stressed, unstressed, unstressed?
dactyl or dactylic
What is a metaphor?
Comparing 2 unlike things, usually with the verb "be" or "have"
I can smell pizza from a mile away.
Identify the figurative language.
Hyperbole
Thunder grumbled and raindrops reported for duty.
Identify the figurative language.
Personification
What does the color black symbolize?
evil, mystery, death, power, depression, sadness, remorse
What is the meter of this stanza?
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
iambic trimeter
a group of lines in a poem; much like a paragraph in prose
Give me an example of a famous allegory.
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Parables in the Bible
Aesop Fables
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (not intentionally)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
Waves of spam emails inundated his inbox.
Identify the figurative language.
Metaphor
What does spring symbolize?
youth, beauty
What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'
AABBA
What is point of view?
1. perspective
2. the way in which the story is told (pronouns)
What is the point of view?
Mary looked at the menu with a puzzled expression. The letters were blurring together. She couldn't make out the words. Her server approached the table and introduced himself, "I'm Marvin and I'll be your server," he said before announcing the specials and soups of the day. Mary could not understand a word that Marvin had said. She nodded her head politely as he blathered, but she had already made up her mind to point at pictures on the menu to communicate her order.
Third person limited
Words are the weapons with which we wound.
Identify the figurative language.
Metaphor
What does rain symbolize?
rebirth, new beginning, turning point
How many feet are there in a poem that is written in tetrameter?
4
What is an allegory? What is its purpose?
A story with two meanings (surface level and a deeper, metaphorical level)
The author is trying to make a point, a critique or teach a moral / lesson
What does it mean to read allegorically?
Constantly searching for symbols and taking the words of the story as a hidden message. Could be political, religious, historical, philosophical, or social
She is perfect in every way.
Identify the figurative language.
Hyperbole
What do doors symbolize?
transition
What kind of meter does a sonnet use?
iambic pentameter
What is third-person omniscient point of view?
The narrator is outside the story and tells the story using the pronouns he/she/they. The narrator reveals what more than one character is thinking or feeling.
What point of view uses the pronouns you/yours and is rarely used in literature?
Second person point of view