Figurative Language / Narrative
What are the 5 senses used in imagery?
Sight, Touch, Taste, Smell, Hearing
Title, Your Dictionary, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift in time, Tone, Title
What kind of conjunction are the FANBOYS conjunctions?
Coordinating conjunctions
What are the 3 rhetorical appeals?
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
What is the difference between nonfiction and fiction?
Nonfiction: 100% based in factual events
Fiction: contains creative elements
What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile?
Simile is a comparison using like or as. Metaphor is a comparison not using like or as (saying something is ________)
What type of figurative language is used in the opening stanza in "Desert Places":?
Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.
Imagery
What kind of conjunction makes a clause dependent?
Subordinating Conjunction
"I really need you to believe me. My life has been ruined! This lie they put on me is more than I can bear, and if I don’t get help from someone who believes me—” Which rhetorical device does this appeal to? Why?
Pathos -- bringing up emotional content
How do you format the in-text citation of an article without a known author?
Title of the article in quotation marks, in parenthesis
True or false: theme is relevant beyond just one specific text
True: themes can be applied to both other texts and the real world
What is the difference between connotation and denotation?
denotation: what something literally means
connotation: what emotions / ideas it elicits
What is the difference between active voice and passive voice?
Active voice: Subject performs an action
Passive voice: something happens to the subject
"Charlie was fourteen years old. He weighed less than 100 pounds and was just five feet tall. He didn't have any juvenile criminal history." This sentence appeals to... because..
Logos - facts
List the elements of an MLA heading on the top left corner
Name
Teacher's Name
Class
Date
Assignment Name
What is it called when something in the text hints at something that will happen later in the text?
Foreshadowing
What is the difference between tone and mood?
Tone = author's attitude
Mood = reader's interpretation / feeling
What is parallel structure?
A common grammatical pattern or similarity
What is rhetoric?
How words/images/ideas are used to persuade an audience.
What word to we use to assess whether a source is reliable? (think ethos)
credibility
Which type of figurative language is used in the following sentence:
"sunlight [that] rested on her face with romantic affection"
Personification
Clint Smith wants the reader to think about Hurricane Katrina in his poem "There is a Lake Here". What kind of literary technique is this?
Allusion
Why do we say "would HAVE" instead of "would OF" (what is the difference between "have" and "of"?)
Have = verb
Of = Preposition
How would an author use ethos to show their credibility?
Include their knowledge, experience, and character related to the topic.
Indent: first part of the paragraph is indented
Hanging indented: the first part of the paragraph is normal, every other line below it is indented