Figurative Language
A comparison using the words "like" or "as"
"The clouds over the land now rose like mountains" (Hemingway 36).
What is a simile?
(Give your own example for an additional 25 points.)
"His living funeral was a rousing success" (Albom 13) 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.
Give another example for an additional 25 points
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. Must be stated as a sentence (never just one word).
What is the Theme?
(Give an example of a theme from a novel we have read for an additional 100 points.)
A nice way to say something not very nice.
What is euphemism?
Give an example for an extra 50 points.
The character term for the main character, and the name of the opposing character.
What is the protagonist and the antagonist?
For 25 extra points name the protagonist and antagonist in a novel we have read.
Caitlin and Martin's favortive band.
Who are the Spice Girls?
Giving non-human objects (or animals) human characteristics.
Example: "The wind is our friend, anyway," he thought (Hemingway 120).
What is personification?
In 1984, Winston and Julia, who want a secret meeting, meet in Victory Square where there are the most people and the most telescreens. This is an example of ___________.
What is irony?
The three articles and what part of speech they are.
What is A, AN, THE and adjectives?
An object, a person, a situation, or an action that has a literal meaning, but also represents or stands for something else.
Example: The telescreen stands for the surveillance of the government.
The paperweight stands for Winston and Julia's relationship and also for the fragile unaltered past/beauty.
What is a symbol?
(Can you give another symbol example from this or a different novel and what it stand for for an additional 100 points?)
Word Choice.
What is diction?
A character that is simple--we do not know much about him or her.
What is a flat character?
For an additional 50 points give an example from a novel we have read.
Morrie's favorite activity (that he can no longer do).
What is dancing?
All of these are this type of figurative language:
"Bucket List" -- "Piece of Cake" -- "Hit the hay"
"Break a leg" -- "Throw in the Towel"
"We’re cutting the language down to the bone (Orwell 45).
What is an idiom?
Buzz, Squeak, Purr. Identify the term and tell how you know it is one of these.
“The old man loved to …hear them [Portuguese man-of-wars] pop when he stepped on them.” (Hemingway 36)
What is onomatopoeia--words that sound like what they say?
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.)
(Give an at least 2 subordinate conjunctions for an additional 50 points.)
When an author includes a reference to a known novel, a character, the Bible, or history.
Example: A little Rumplestiltskin figure, contorted with hatred, he gripped the neck of the microphone with one hand while the other, enormous at the end of a bony arm, clawed the air menacingly above his head (Orwell 149).
What is an allusion?
Give an example for an additional 50 points.
The emotional meaning of a word.
The dictionary definition or meaning of a word.
Give a word and an example of the dictionary definition and the emotional defintion.
What is connotation? What is denotation?
Example: Dentotion of Night = period of darkness in a 24 hour period from sunset to sunrise. Connotation of night = darkness, death, depression, etc.
A character who undergoes a change in thoughts or attitudes or values over the course of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
Give an example for an additional 50 points.
The Party section that Winston works for.
What is Ministry of Truth?
This type of figurative language uses comparison saying one thing is another (implied or explicit):
"“You’re my alarm clock,” the boy said. “Age is my alarm clock,” the old man said (Hemingway 24).
What is a metaphor?
Something expressed less strongly than it should be.
For example, after whipping another team 50 to 0, the player says, "We didn't play too badly."
What is an understatement?
"Dirty or clean, the room was paradise" (Orwell 124) contains an example of what (writing requirement you had to use in your Vocabulary Story)?
Also: Identify each part of speech in the sentence to help you answer this.
What is an opening adjective?
(10 extra points for each part of speech correctly identified in the sentence "Dirty or clean, the room was paradise.")
dirty/clean/the=adjectives, or=conjunction, room/paradise=nouns, was=verb
When a part of something stands for the whole or occasionally when the whole stands for just a part.
"Truckload after truckload of the sad faces passed" (Orwell 96).
What is Synecdoche?
The setting includes BOTH of these
AND
The turning point of a story.
What is time and place?
What is the climax?
A character who does not change in attitudes or beliefs--stays the same throughout the story.
What is a static character?
Give an example from a novel we read and tell why for another 100 points
Caitlin sent Martin this for his birthday.
What is a Reebok shirt from Ross?
identifiy the type of sound device in the above for an extra 50 points.
This statement seems to contradict itself, but actually has a kernel of truth. (Give an additional example for the full 500 points.)
"War is Peace" "Freedom is Slavery" "Ignorance is strength"
What is a paradox?
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)?
(Give an example of each and for an additional 25 points each.)
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)
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?
Name the 6 types of conflict and give an example from a novel we have read for each.
What is Man Versus man, Man vs. Self, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Technology, and Man vs. Supernatural? (with examples.)
A complex character who we know a lot about; a multifaceted character
What is a round character?
Give an example of someone who is round from a novel we read and tell why.
This character was not interrogated by the Thoughtpoice.
Who is O'Brien or Mr. Charrington?