Types of Figurative Language
An excerpt of writing that gives inanimate objects human characteristics.
What is personification?
The voice that tells the story.
What is speaker?
Brainstorming ideas and organizing your topic.
What is prewriting?
Taking notes on what you think the visual is about.
What is overview?
A rhetorical device that separates what is being defined into separate groups or classes.
What is classification?
A figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a similie?
The attitude of the author.
What is tone?
Creating a rough copy of your writing.
What is drafting?
Coming to a final decision/agreement on what the visual in its entirety and then summarizing.
What is conclusion?
A rhetorical device that excludes something that is not part of a definition.
What is negation?
It simply states that two separate things are the same.
What is a metaphor?
The time and place of the writing.
What is occasion?
Improving/perfecting your writing.
What is revising?
Using all elements of the visual as clues to decipher how they are all related and correlate.
What are interrelationships?
A rhetorical device that explains facets of a definition in terms of their purpose.
What is function?
Common, non-literal terms that are decently, universally understood in the English language.
What is an idiom?
The topic of the writing.
What is subject?
Proofreading your work.
What is editing?
Looking at each area of the visual independently and deciding their importance.
What are parts?
A rhetorical device that uses examples to add weight to a concept.
What is exemplification?
Words that sound like their description.
What is an onomatopoeia?
The group of readers to whom the writing is directed toward.
What is audience?
Creating and submitting a clean, final copy.
What is publishing?
Interpreting the name of the visual and seeking out further meaning.
What is a title?
A short statement that summarizes the main point of an essay and is developed, supported, and explained in the text by means of examples and evidence.
What is a thesis statement?