Language Devices 1
What is emotive language?
Words that are emotions or evoke emotions
Wonderful, tragic, devastating
What is repetition?
Repeating a word or phrase
I've said this over and over again.
What punctuation is this?
...
Ellipsis
The curtains went down...
What is foreshadowing?
A warning or indication of a future event that hasn't happened yet
It sure would be unfortunate if someone burned the office down...
Who is the poet who wrote "Still I Rise"?
Maya Angelou
What is the difference between a simile and metaphor?
A simile uses "like" or "as"; a metaphor does not
You are as bright as sunshine!
You are the sun.
What is hyperbole?
Exaggeration
Lunch is so late this year. I'm starving to death right now.
What is an imperative?
A command
Sit down.
What is a cyclical structure?
A narrative in which the story ends in a way that connects back to the beginning.
What are the "-isms" that "Still I Rise" deals with?
Classism, sexism, and racism
What is juxtaposition?
When two opposite things are contrasted.
Night and day.
What is sibilance?
Silky snakes severed seven students.
What is a superlative?
The highest degree or quality of the root word.
The superlative of fast is fastest.
What is an asyndetic list?
A list broken up by commas rather than conjunctions such as "and"
I loved, I hated, I slept.
What is the repeated mantra in the poem?
"I rise"
What is the difference between zoomorphism and personification?
Zoomorphism is when a human acts animalistic.
Personification is when a nonhuman acts human.
The man took his huge paws and swung. The bell screamed.
Create your own semantic field using at least 3 words. Then, tell us what the semantic field is.
Semantic fields use related words to create a full picture.
The semantic field of a beach would use words like sand, sunshine, ocean, and waves.
Give an example of an interrogative sentence.
Any question would fit!
What is your favorite class?
What is a polysyndetic list, also known as polysyndeton?
A list that uses multiple conjunctions in the place of commas.
I had to go to school and the mall and the volleyball court and the park and home.
Fill in the missing word from the poem.
"I'm a black _______, leaping and wide."
Ocean
There are three types of irony: dramatic irony, situational irony, and verbal irony. Describe each.
Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters do not.
Situational irony is the opposite of your expectations.
Verbal irony is sarcasm.
Give an example of alliteration using plosive sounds.
Bella baked billions of brownies.
Pay Penelope, pretty please.
Name and define five types of punctuation.
Periods, commas, semicolons, colons, exclamation points, ellipses, question marks, em dashes.
What is the difference between language devices and structure devices?
Language devices focus on the words and effects themselves, while structural devices focus on how the writing develops.
Explain the main theme of the poem.
Despite the hardships she has faced as a woman of color, she will continue to "rise" and not be weighed down by other people's negative expectations of her.