imagery & figuarative language
Juliet says, "Parting is such sweet sorrow."
What is an oxymoron?
"The sea laughed and licked its greedy lips against the shore, hungering for the ship."
What is personification?
A professional marriage counselor files for divorce.
What is irony?
In Taylor Swift's "Blank Space," she sings, "Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter."
What is an allusion?
"The heavy wood slammed shut with a violent SLAM!
What is onomatopoeia?
He was as jumpy as a cat on a hot tin roof.
What is a simile?
In Disney's The Lion King, Scar is calculating, dark, and cruel, which throws Simba's naive, bright, and honorable traits into sharp relief.
What is a foil?
In her poem "We Real Cool," Gwendolyn Brooks writes: "We real cool. We / Left school. We / Lurk late..."
What is enjambment?
Her mind was a calm, completely still lake.
What is a metaphor?
The director of a horror movie tracks the camera over a loaded gun sitting quietly on a kitchen counter in the opening scene.
What is foreshadowing?
Peter paced passionately, pushing past the pack of persistent reporters.
What is alliteration?
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the audience watches Romeo drink poison because he genuinely believes Juliet is dead, but we know she is actually just asleep under a potion.
What is dramatic irony?
George Orwell's novel "Animal Farm" includes the line "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
What is a paradox?
A student complains about a bad grade by saying, "My parents are going to literally murder me."
What is hyperbole?