Figurative language 7.4
She is an open book
RL7.4
What is a metaphor?
The main message or lesson in a fictional text.
What is theme?
I wish my grandmother could have lived _________
but she passed away at age 91.
What is infinite?
The three names that Grandfather takes his time saying. Hint: the grandchildren.
Hope, Dell, and Jackie
A indirect reference to a well-known person, place, thing or event.
What is an allusion?
The attitude the author expresses through text or characters.
What is tone or mood ?
To pass down from generation to generation.
What is inherit?
Hope's "kryptonite".
What is the South?
As cold as ice
What is a simile?
How a character/narrator sees the other events and characters within the text.
What is the point of view or perspective?
To be disloyal or unfaithful.
What is betray?
The job Woodson's grandmother does when she isn't cleaning.
What is part-time teaching?
The sun smiles down at me.
What is personification?
A comparison between two unlike things that does not use the terms like or as.
What is metaphor?
Empty or vast.
What is barren?
Woodson's grandfather owned this, he says that it is what God gives them to provide abundance for the family.
What is the garden?
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!
What is hyperbole?
The place where the story takes place.
What is setting?
In 1862, President Lincoln signed a proclamation to __________ all enslaved people in the United States, declaring them “forever free.”
What is emancipate?
Works at the printing press where he is the foreman.
Who is Daddy Gunnar or Mr. Irby?