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SIFT
Sift Breakdown
Figurative Language
Definitions
Figurative Language
Definitions
Figurative Language Examples
100
Writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character or audience.
What is Tone?
100

SIFT is a strategy to help you analyze _________ a little deeper by looking for stylistic techniques used by the author to create a tone or theme.

What is Literature?

100

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

What is Simile?

100

A comparison of two unlike things without the use of like or as.

What is Metaphor?

100
"Time is money."
What is Metaphor?
200

Description that by appealing to the senses.

What is Imagery?

200

SIFT is a _________ to help you analyze literature a little deeper by looking for stylistic techniques used by the author to create a tone or theme.

What is Strategy?

200

Usually the opposite of what is expected.

What is Irony?

200

Words that imitate the sound of an action.

What is Onomatopoeia?

200
Bang! Crash! Drip Drip Drip
What is Onomatopoeia?
300

Consists of words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else.

What is Figurative Language?

300
SIFT is a strategy to help you analyze literature a little deeper by looking for _____________ used by the author to create a tone or theme.
What is Stylistic Techniques?
300
A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or ideas human qualities.
What is Personification?
300

A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing.

What is Allusion?

300
"The warrior fought like a lion."
What is Simile?
400

An object, person, place that has meaning in itself and represents an abstract idea.

What is a Symbol?

400
SIFT is a strategy to help you ________ literature a little deeper by looking for stylistic techniques used by the author to create a tone or theme.
What is Analyze?
400

An overstatement or an understatement to exaggerate an idea.

What is Hyperbole?

400

A character does something that has different meanings from what he or she understands. The audience and other characters know the implications of this action or speech.

What is Dramatic Irony?

400

"The wind whispered through the tall leafy trees."

What is Personification?

500
The central message of a literary work. It is a general statement about life or human nature.
What is Theme?
500
SIFT is a strategy to help you analyze literature a little deeper by looking for stylistic techniques used by the author to create a ______ or _______.
What is Tone or Theme?
500

The speaker or narrator says one thing but means the opposite.

What is Verbal Irony?

500

A situation that turns out differently than one would normally expect.

What is Situational Irony?

500

A deep-sea diver drowns in a small lake.

What is situational irony?