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What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Similes = indirect comparisons using "like" or "as"
Metaphors = direct comparisons without using "like" or "as"
What do we call it in a story where there's a conversation between two or more people?
What is dialogue?
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A one-sentence description of the main idea/main point that the author is making, or what the text is mostly about.
an object, person, situation, event, or action that represents something else.
What is symbolism?
When a character struggles with an internal OR external force, we call that...
Conflict.
True or false: imagery is an example of figurative language. Explain!
False, because imagery describes things literally!
Clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot.
The act of coming to a conclusion based on facts or making and educated guess.
What is an inference?
Where words set up as rhymes have similar, but not identical sounds (Ex: "eternally" and "die")
What is slant rhyme?
The author/speaker's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
Attributes human characteristics or behaviors to non-humans. (Ex. "Anansi spider stole all of the wisdom in the world".)
What is anthropomorphism?
What is the difference between dramatic irony and situational irony?
Dramatic irony = we know something a character does not
Situational irony = we're hit with a surprise
When persuading one's audience to adopt their perspective, authors use what we call rhetoric. Identify and explain the three rhetorical appeals.
Logos = logic
Pathos = Emotion
Ethos = Credibility
What is meter in a poem?
The number of syllables in a line.
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Besides time and place, what are THREE (3) things setting can also include?
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The first team to come up with a correct example of allusion earns these points. (Complete sentences required!)
Identify a story we've covered this year that uses first-person narration.
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Fill in the blanks: in persuasive and informational texts, authors make BLANK about the topic that they support with BLANK to prove it.
Claims, evidence
The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another. broken baby bottle
What is alliteration or consonance?
When a story uses a simple plot to discuss a deeper message (usually rooted in politics, history, or religion), we call that...
What is allegory?
Identify the name of a poem or story we have studied this semester that makes use of an extended metaphor.
"Mother to Son", "Hope is the thing with feathers"
There are FIVE (5) types of imagery. Correctly name them all to earn these points.
Visual imagery, auditory imagery, olfactory imagery, gustatory imagery, tactile imagery
When determining a word's definition using context clues, we used an acronym called "IDEAS". What does each of these letters stand for?
I = Inference, D = Definition, E = Example, A = Antonym, S = Synonym
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The first team to correctly identify the difference between blank verse and free verse earns these points!
What is the difference between Horatian Satire and Juvenalian Satire?
Horatian Satire = Satire that is comedic and aims to offer light social commentary.
Juvenalian Satire = Satire that is dark rather than comedic, and is not intended to make us laugh.