Figurative Language
What type of figurative language is the following:
"I worked for a thousand hours on my homework!"
What is hyperbole?
Who is the main character in Touching Spirit Bear? (first and last name)
Who is Cole Matthews
The ____________ is the central idea or message of a work of literature.
What is theme or main idea?
In this mode, the narrator is usually the protagonist or central character in the story. But even if this character is not the protagonist, he or she is directly involved in the events of the story and is telling the tale “first hand.” The narrator will be telling the story from “I’s” perspective. What point of view is this?
What is first person?
_______ is a relationship where one thing is the result of the other.
What is cause/effect?
What type of figurative language is the following:
Her eyes were diamonds as she received her trophy.
What is metaphor?
In the novel, Touching Spirit Bear, what is Garvey's job title?
What is parole officer?
To ___________ means to determine something by using reasoning and text evidence.
What is infer?
With this mode of narration, the narrator tells the story of another person or group of people. The narrator may be far removed from or not involved in the story, or he or she may be a supporting character supplying narration for a hero. Frequent use of “he, she, them, they, him, her, his, her, and their” by the narrator. What is this point of view?
What is third person?
The _________ of a word is its dictionary definition.
What is denotation?
What type of figurative language is the following:
Jodie joyfully jumped in the jungle gym.
What is alliteration?
Why wasn't Cole able to get to another island when he tried to swim away from the island the first time?
The tide kept bringing Cole back to land.
Author’s ________ is the author’s reason for writing.
What is author's purpose?
In this mode of narration “you” are the agent, such as in this example: you walked down the stairs. As it is generally awkward for a story to be narrated from “your” perspective, this mode of narration is not used very often in narratives and stories. What point of view is this?
What is second person?
A reader uses ________ , or the surrounding words that help a reader determine a word’s meaning.
What is context clues?
What type of figurative language is the following:
He hit the nail on the head when answering the math questions.
What is idiom?
When Cole planned to swim away from the island the second time, what stopped him?
What is the Spirit Bear?
The _______ of a word is the idea or feeling that a word suggests, or that our culture or our emotions give the word. It can be positive, negative, or neutral. It is not the dictionary definition.
What is connotation?
This is the point of view when the narrator is providing only the thoughts and feelings of a single character.
What is limited point of view?
From René Saldaña, Jr.’s 2003 collection of short stories, “__________________” is told through the eyes of a teenage boy named Rey. Rey's neighbor takes advantage of his kindness, and Rey has to decide if he should help his neighbor that has a flat tire.
What is "The Good Samaritan"?
What type of figurative language is the following:
The story jumped off the page.
What is personification?
What was Cole's first food on the island?
What is mangled fish from the gulls?
Details consist of facts, descriptions, examples, and reasons that further explain key ideas. To __________ a detail you need to judge or decide whether or not the detail suggests a larger key idea.
What is evaluate?
This is when a narrator provides an “all-knowing” understanding of characters and events. What point of view is this?
What is omniscient point of view?
The story “__________________” is set on the planet Venus, where the sun appears for only a few hours every seven years. They are suspicious of the tales Margot tells about the sunlight she remembers seeing on Earth. As the children await the sun’s arrival, they grow jealous and mean. What is the worst thing that they could do to Margot on the one day the sun will shine?
What is "All Summer in a Day"?