Figurative Language
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Complete the analogy: "Finger is to hand as toe is to _."
What is foot?
The main message a poet wants to communicate to readers through their form, word choice, rhyme scheme, type of language, meter, etc.
What is theme?
Sentence type that contains only one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
When author's use words like "I believe", "I think", or "in my opinion", they are using ______________ language.
What is subjective?
Language that appeals to the senses
What is sensory language or imagery?
"Bird is to fly as fish is to _."
What is swim?
The rhyme scheme of the following poem:
The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.
What is ABAB?
Type of sentence that includes at least one independent clause and one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
The author's point of view or stance on a topic.
What is the author's claim?
My hands were icicles because of the cold weather.
What is a metaphor?
Card : Deck :: Flower : _____________
What is bouquet, or garden?
A 14-line poem that often has a specific rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
The type of sentence that has two or more independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
The argument that is against the author's original claim.
What is the opposing claim?
Coming home from the lake empty-handed, I figured the fish colluded to avoid me.
What is personification?
Election : __________ :: Succession : Monarchy
What is democracy?
The final two lines of a sonnet that reinforce or shift the mood.
What is a couplet?
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
What is a compound sentence?
The reason author's use expert evidence in their arguments.
What is to show readers that they have done research to make their argument stronger?
The type of figurative language used in these lines of poetry:
"Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out
against the sky,
Like a patient etherized
Upon a table;"
What is a simile?
The purpose of using analogies in writing.
What is to explain complex relationships?
The author's attitude towards the topic they're writing about is their ___________, and the emotion they hope to create in the reader is the ____________.
What is tone and mood?
You cannot leave the school until the bell rings.
What is a complex sentence?
When authors use loaded, emotional language to persuade readers.
What is appeal to emotion?