Figurative Language
A comparison using the words "like" or "as"
"Marley was dead as a doornail."
What is a simile?
(Give your own example for an additional 25 points.)
Jem was "awfully nice" is an example of one of these. Name the term and explain it.
What is an oxymoron? What is when two seemingly opposite words are used together and they seem to make sense.
This takes the place of a noun. Give an example.
What is a pronoun?
Examples: he, she, it, we, they, our
The main idea of a novel; what the author is trying to communicate. There may be several in a novel, and different readers might see things differently. Stated as a sentence (not just a word).
What is the Theme?
(Give an example of a theme from a novel we have read for an additional 100 points.)
The dictionary definition or meaning of a word.
Example: Night is the period of darkness in a 24 hour period from sunset to sunrise.
What is denotation?
The character term for the main character, and the name of the opposing character.
What is the protagonist and the antagonist?
Giving non-human objects (or animals) human characteristics.
Example: "The remains of a picket drunkenly guarded the front yard..." (Lee 9).
What is personification?
In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick describes how Mr. Covey tries to whip him for being disrespectful, but Douglass fights back which makes Mr. Covey respect him. This is an example of ___________.
What is irony?
The three articles and what part of speech they are.
What is A, AN, THE and adjective?
An object, a person, a situation, or an action that has a literal meaning, but also represents or stands for something else.
Example: The mockingbird is an actual bird but it also represented innocence.
The Rabid dog, Tim Johnson, stood for racism--a disease that afflicted with an illness, like Maycomb was afflicted with Racism.
What is a symbol?
(Can you give another symbol example from a different novel and what it stand for for an additional 100 points?)
Writing that appeals to the 5 senses is considered this.
What is imagery?
A character that is more of a type than an actual character. For example: the gossip, the damsel in distress, the bossy CEO.
What is a stock character?
All of these are this type of figurative language:
"Don't blink" -- "Stiff Upper Lip" -- "Hit the hay"
"Break a leg" -- "Throw in the Towel"
"On the days he carried the watch, Jem walked on eggs." (Lee 68)
What is an idiom?
Repetition of the BEGINNING sound.
Repetition of VOWEL sounds in successive words.
Repetition of CONSONANT sounds in successive words.
What is alliteration? Assonance (vowels)?
Consonance (consonants)?
This part of speech joins words or phrases. There are different types: Subordinate, Correlative, or Coordinating.
What is a conjunction?
(Give the FANBOYS and tell which type they are for an additional 50 points.)
(Tell which type uses two words and give an example for an additional 100 points.)
The author's attitude toward the topic he or she is writing about. Expressed through choice of words and details the author selects.
What is tone?
The emotional meaning of a word.
Give a word and an example of the dictionary definition and the emotional defintion.
What is connotation.
Examples vary but must include denotation (dictionary definition) and connotation (emotional meaning.)
A character who remains the same throughout the story. His or her attitudes or ideals do NOT change no matter what happens.
What is a static character?
(Give an example of one from a novel we read for an additional 50 points.)
(Tell what we call a character who does undergo major changes in attitudes or ideals and give an example for an additional 100 points.)
This type of figurative language uses comparison saying one thing is another (implied or explicit):
"The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of business!" (Dickens 22).
What is a metaphor?
A literal object, image, situation, action, idea that stands for something else. For example, the gifts in the hole in the tree stood for the desire for friendship.
What is a symbol?
"Onward we marched" (Yun 79) contains an example of what (writing requirement you had to use in your Vocabulary Story)? (Identify each part of speech in the sentence to help you answer this.)
What is an opening adverb?
(75 extra points for each part of speech correctly identified in the sentence "Onward we marched.")
Writing that contains repeated beginning words or phrases AND repeated ending words or phrases.
What is symploce?
For an extra 50 points each:
What do we call the repeated beginning words/phrases?
What do we call the repeated ending words/phrases?
Name the 3 types of irony and give an example for each.
What is verbal (saying the opposite of what you mean), situational (the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens) and Dramatic (the reader or audience knows what the character does not) irony?
A character that is simple--we do not know much about him or her.
What is a flat character?
For an additional 100 points, what is the opposite of a flat character called, and how do we identify this type of character?
Using repetition, when the beginning words are repeated AND the ending words are repeated.
Example: "First they came for Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for Trade Unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist...." (Neimoller)
What is symploce?
(Name the word that describe repeated BEGINNING words/phrases for an extra 50 points.)
(Name the word that describe repeated ENDING words/phrases for an extra 50 points.)
Buzz, Squeak, Purr. Identify the term and tell how you know it is one of these.
What is onomatopoeia--words that sound like what they say?
The 8 parts of speech and an example of each.
What is noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection, and adjective. (With appropriate word examples)
When a part of something stands for the whole or occasionally when the whole stands for just a part.
"All hands on deck"
"Can I have your hand in marriage?"
What is Synecdoche?
Name the 6 types of conflict and give an example.
What is Man Versus man, Man vs. Self, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Technology, and Man vs. Supernatural? (with examples.)
A character used to highlight the differences in another character, usually to show the difference between this character and the protagonist.
What is a foil character?
For an extra 50 points, identify one in a novel we have read so far.