Figurative Language
Figurative Language #2
Structure
Point of View
BONUS:Words and
Meaning
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What is a comparison where one thing is said to be the other?
Metaphor
100
What is a comparison between 2 things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile
100
What is a group of 1 or more lines in a poem called?
What is a stanza
100
How do you determine the point of view of people in a picture. Give at least 2 ways.
What is looking at their facial expressions, body language, gestures etc.
100
What is the literal meaning of a word?
What is the dictionary definition of the word
200
What is a figurative device where a non living thing is given human characteristics?
What is personification
200
What is the figurative device where an exaggeration is used for emphasis?
What is a hyperbole
200
A single line in a poem without any words
What is a stanza break
200
How do you determine the point of view of the author in a text?
What is look at what words/information they include or exclude, try to figure out their purpose, notice the content and the choices they make
200
What are context clues?
What is the clues you get from the rest of a sentence when you are trying to figure out what a word means.
300
The following sentence is an example of what figurative device? "Her heart danced with excitement"
What is personification
300
The following sentence is an example of what figurative device? "As the storm got stronger, it began picking up and throwing snow all over the city."
What is personification
300
Explain why poets break their work into different stanzas?
What is to introduce new ideas that are still part of the greater theme or message
300
Explain the ""burglar"/"real estate agent" game using the vocab words "perspective" and "point of view"
What is the story was written from 1 point of view but depending on which perspective you were focusing on the important details in the story changed.
300
What is the connotative meaning of a word?
What is the positive/negative association with the word
400
The following sentence is an example of which figurative device? "Once I heard my mom open the front door I ran at the speed of lightning into my room"
What is hyperbole
400
With your group create a sentence that is an example of personification.
Answers will vary
400
In Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken, why did Frost separate his poem into different stanzas?
What is to indicate new ideas being introduced.
400
If you were to annotate for the author's point of view. What symbols might you use to indicate their point of view?
What is + or - signs. Note: there may be additional answers.
400
Create a list of 5 words with negative connotation that would help show an author's hatred of the city s/he lives in.
Answers will vary
500
With your group create 1 example of a hyperbole and 1 example of personification. You must explain both example.
Answers may vary.
500
With your group you must create 1 simile and 1 metaphor. You must explain both examples.
Answers may vary
500
In the Robert Frost poem "The Road Not Taken" was is the purpose of the first and second stanza? Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
What is the 1st stanza introduces the conflict of which road to take. The person in the poem has to decide between 2 roads. The 2nd stanza explains the choice which is made. It resolves the conflict that was introduced in the 1st stanza.
500
Look at the following picture: How do the perspectives (points of view) of Beyonce and Jay Z contrast? Cite at least 2 pieces of evidence to support your claim.
Answers will vary.
500
If the author of a poem were to describe a city as clear, calm and serene. What might the author's point of view of the city be? In your answer you must describe the connotative meaning of the words.
Author's point of view would be that the city is peaceful. The words have a positive connotation.
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