Figurative Language defintions
What is a Hyperbole?
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"
Personification
Give an example of an HYPERBOLE in a sentence about 'pizza'!
I could eat 1 million pizza's, I am THAT hungry
Name 5 types of figurative language
simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, allusion, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, euphemism, irony, paradox, anaphora, imagery, apostrophe, synecdoche
What is a definition for Personification?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
Metaphor
The attitude a writer/author takes towards his or her subject, characters, and audience.
TONE
What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."
A. Her hair is red.
B. She talks really loudly.
C. She gets really angry.
D. She spits when she talks.
C. She gets really angry.
What does Connotation mean?
Connotation refers to the array of emotions, ideas, or associations that a word invokes beyond its literal or primary meaning (denotation). These associations can be positive, negative, or neutral, and they are shaped by cultural and personal experiences.
VIBE of a word!
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
Simile
Name the figurative language and explain WHY: The stars danced in the night.
Personification
______________: the methods a writer uses to reveal a character's values, feelings, goals, etc. to readers.
Characterization
Symbolism is
A.The time and place a story takes place.
B. The descriptive details an author puts in their story.
C. The the moral of the story.
D. The use of an object, person, situation, colors, animals etc. to represent ideas or qualities.
D. The use of an object, person, situation, colors, animals etc. to represent ideas or qualities.
The general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals.
A. Theme
B. Flashback
C. Setting
D. Tone
A. Theme
______________: when a text references another external text—or maybe a person, place or event. It can be either explicit or implicit. “We’ve entered a Garden of Eden” is an ___________to the biblical place, for instance.
Allusion!
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
_________________: the perspective from which a story is told; an opinion, attitude, or judgment in which a story is presented
Point of View (POV)
________________: the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect, 2 things put next to each other that are different and the purpose is to expose this difference
Juxtaposition
TRUE OR FALSE
Imagery is visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work, that appeals to the five senses (hearing, taste, smell, touch and sight).
TRUE
What is an Idiom?
a. An idiom is a phrase or expression that has a figurative meaning different from the literal meaning of its individual words.
b. An idiom is a type of scientific measurement used to quantify language usage in different cultures.
c. An idiom is a strict grammatical rule that dictates sentence structure in a specific language.
d. An idiom is a newly coined word or phrase that has recently entered common usage and is specific to a particular profession or field.
a. An idiom is a phrase or expression that has a figurative meaning different from the literal meaning of its individual words.
Name the figurative language and explain WHY: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor because it is comparing the water to a glove, saying something IS something else is a metaphor
What is Satire?
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Describe all the parts of the regents.....IN DETAIL
Part 1, you are to read 3 texts and answer 24 multiple-choice questions.
Part 2, you are to read the texts and write one source-based argument ( argument essay) (scored out of 6)
Part 3: you are to read a text and write 1 literary analysis essay (scored out of 4)
The exact, literal meaning of a word, or dictionary definition is called _________.
Denotation