Test Taking Strategies
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He attracted girls like honey attracted flies.
Simile
Dentists all over the country recommend this toothbrush.
Ethos (ethics/credibility)
She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.
Simile
When a character says the opposite of what they really mean.
Verbal Irony
What should you do if you do not know the answer to a question?
Make an educated guess.
The man was a human tree in height, towering high above us.
Metaphor
Houses near the coast should be build at least ten feet above sea level because statistics show that at waters rise to these heights at least once every twenty years.
Logos (logic)
Sally sells seashells down by the seashore.
Alliteration
The difference between what is expected to happen and what actually occurs. Often, roles and outcomes are dramatically reversed.
Situational Irony
What should you do if you do not know what a word means in the text/a question?
Use your context clues to try to figure out the meaning.
Winning the lottery would be okay, I guess.
Understatement
Please donate to my cousin. She is going through her third round of chemotherapy and the medical bills are piling up.
Pathos (emotion)
All of a sudden Will felt like crying, the way that kind of sorrow would swoop in and punch him in the gut.
Personification
When the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not.
What kind of a reader are you?
A critical reader.
I've been to the dentist many times so I know the drill.
Pun
The law of gravity is certain no matter where you are in the world. If you drop something, it will fall at the same rate, guaranteed. No one has been able to prove otherwise.
Logos (logic)
Johnny was scared of his own shadow.
Hyperbole
In the movie The Incredibles, Mr. Incredible is sued by someone who he saved from committing suicide.
Situational Irony
What shape did you have to draw on the bottom righthand corner of your guided notes? How many?
3 stars
Love is such sweet sorrow.
Paradox
Jane Goodall spent years in the the Gombe forest in Africa living with and becoming an expert on chimpanzees. Her knowledge of chimps surpasses anyone else.
Ethos (ethics/crdibility)
The two boys seem to be nice, regular children, but that unattractive girl and the baby boy certainly aren’t all there.
Idiom
The slogan from The Hunger Games, “May the odds be ever in your favor,” is repeated throughout the book, when really, the chances are that all but one of the players will die.
Verbal Irony