Figurative Language definitions Part 1
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
"... Poised in midair
Like storybook sea monsters."
(Slam, Dunk, & Hook)
What is a simile?
"It helps that
the morning air glides cool
like a constant washcloth
against my face."
(Inside Out & Back Again)
What is the morning air to the feel of a cool washcloth?
The author uses "Nobody" again and again. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF...
Repetition
A group of lines that form the equivalent of a paragraph in poetry.
What is a stanza?
The pattern of end rhymes (example abab cdcd efef gg)
What is rhyme scheme?
"I wake up with
dragonflies
zipping through
my gut"
(Inside Out & Back Again)
What is onomatopoeia?
"Her eyes were now like stars: in all the world there was no other such beauty."
(The Invisible One)
What is her eyes to how stars shine?
"How public - like a frog!"
This is an example of what figurative language?
Simile
Giving human qualities to something non-human
What is personification?
An over-exaggeration for emphasis or effect
What is hyperbole?
" ... the pier at Gulfport where
riggings of shrimp boats are loose stitches
In a sky threatening rain ... "
(Theories of Time and Space)
What is a metaphor?
"My new teacher has brown curls
looped tight to her scalp
like circles in a beehive."
(Inside Out & Back Again)
What is curls to honey combs?
What does the narrator compare AUDIENCES to? (The people that admire Somebodies)
A bog
The use of an object to represent an complex or abstract idea
What is symbolism?
Repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
"... Nothing but a hot
Swish of strings of silk
Ten feet out ..."
(Slam, Dunk, & Hook)
What is either alliteration or onomatopoeia?
"Muscles were a bright motor
Double-flashing to the metal hoop"
What is muscles to how motors work?
What word does the author use to make the reader feel like we have something in common with her?
"Are you - Nobody - too? Then there's a _____ of us!"
Pair
Repetition of sentence structure such as similar sentence patterns or similar parts of speech.
What is parallel structure?
Vivid descriptive language that appeals to the five senses
What is imagery?
"... With Mercury's
insignia on our sneakers,"
(Slam, Dunk, & Hook)
What is Mercury symbolizing their speed in playing basketball?
"My great-grandmother. I would've like to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn't marry."
(The House on Mango Street)
What is "wild horse of a woman" to being independent?
This is the system of LANGUAGE RULES, such as punctuation and correct word use.
GRAMMAR
An indirect reference to a person, time, place, literary work, etc. that is brief.
What is allusion?