Literary Devices
What is the type of figurative language when animals or objects are given human qualities?
Personification
Which word in the following sentence has a capitalization error?
My friend and I went to the Soccer game in Braselton.
Soccer
What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction?
Fiction is created, and nonfiction is based on truth.
What type of writing was "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
Who wrote the rough draft of The Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What is visual imagery?
Where should the comma go in the following sentence?
Coconuts are delicious but coconut water is disgusting.
Coconuts are delicious, but coconut water is disgusting.
How can knowing the history of a time period help you understand a fictional or narrative story from the same time period?
It gives background information that allows the reader to make inferences and determine the occasion and the author's purpose.
Which kind of imagery was the most common in Edward's sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
Visual
Why is Paul Revere more famous than William Dawes?
Longfellow wrote a poem about him.
What is a metaphor?
Comparing two unlike things by saying/implying that one IS the other. (not softening it with "like" or "as")
Correct the parallel structure.
Washington wanted to create a new country, improving it's government, and lead it to prosperity.
Washington wanted to create a new country, improve it's government, and lead it to prosperity.
BONUS: Identify the OTHER mistake!
What is the difference between a creation and an origin myth?
Creation myths explain the beginning of the universe. Origin myths explain the beginning of some animal, element, phenomenon, etc.
What is something that is typical of Puritan poetry?
Plain/ordinary words, religious focus, inversion
Which rhetorical appeal (ethos, pathos, logos) is used more in The Declaration of Independence?
*This is a little bit of a trick question!
Logos
Give a hint for how to determine the meaning of a word in context.
Read each of the options in the sentence.
Create a compound-complex sentence (about anything).
Because you went to the party without permission, you will not go to the beach, and you'll be grounded.
List the works we read which qualify as "nonfiction narratives."
(You must name at least 4.)
Sacco and Vanzetti, Ground Zero, The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equaino, The Generall Historie of Virginia, On Plymouth Plantation
What is inversion?
Changing the normal order/syntax of a poem for poetic effect.
What was the tone of "The American Crisis"?
Inspirational, motivational, etc.
Which literary devices help create rhythm in a text?
Rhyme, parallelism, repetition, anaphora
Change this sentence to the active voice.
Frederick was accused of stealing the apple from the market by Winifred and Timothy.
Winfred and Timothy accused Frederick of stealing the apple from the market.
Why was Equiano's life so "interesting"?
(Give at least two reasons why.)
He was born in Africa, taken to the Americas, and managed to buy his own freedom.
To show devotion to God; to show love of family; to express emotions about a life event
What are rhetorical questions AND which text were they the MOST prevalent in?
Questions designed to make people think, not necessarily to be answered. Patrick Henry used them a lot in his "Give Me Liberty" speech.