Songs
What figurative language do these lyrics from "Lo Que Siento" by Cuco use?
"I'm on top of the world, baby girl, can't you see? / I found my perfect girl, I wanna make you my queen."
Metaphor: Cuco uses a metaphor to figuratively compare feeling amazing to being on top of the world.
What is connotation?
The associations we have with a word, the word's vibes.
What is a simile?
A comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a claim?
The main argument or opinion in a persuasive text.
What rhetorical device does the following excerpt use?
"One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land."
Repetition OR metaphor.
What figurative language do these lyrics from "Flowers (feat. Haien Qiu)" by Christian Basso use? (not personification)
"The whisper of birds / Lonely before the sun cried / Fell from the sky / Like waterdrops"
Simile: the falling of the "whisper of birds" is compared to waterdrops falling from the sky using the word "like".
What is denotation?
What a word literally means, the dictionary definition of a word.
What is a metaphor?
Figurative language that states one thing is another in order to draw a comparison between the two things.
What is evidence?
The part of a literary analysis where you use a quote to support your claim.
What rhetorical device is being used in this quote?
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground."
Parallelism/parallel structure
What figurative language do these lyrics from "Sienna" by The Marias use?
"Please tell me not to go / We've been here long before / I live under your eyelids / I'll always be yours"
Metaphor: "I live under your eyelids" compares living under someone's eyelids to constantly being on someone's mind.
What is the denotation of the word "dog"?
A domesticated animal typically kept as a pet with 4 legs, a tail, and a long snout.
Which of the following is a metaphor?
A: The dog's bark shot out loudly through the air like a gunshot.
B: Just as the moon on a clear night, her smile shined brightly enough to illuminate the dark atmosphere of the room.
C: I weathered my way through the storms of my past, overcoming the struggles it took for me to get to where I am today.
C.
In the following paragraph, which letter includes the reasoning?
A: Valenzuela uses irony to criticize those who let their obsessions get the better of them. B: In the text, Valenzuela writes: "He was about to congratulate himself for having finally discovered his true mission, when his letter to Mariana reached his hands. Naturally, he censored it without regret," (11). C: This is ironic because Juan only became a censor to stop the letter from reaching the hands of the censorship division within the government, but that is exactly what he ends up doing.
C: This is ironic because Juan only became a censor to stop the letter from reaching the hands of the censorship division within the government, but that is exactly what he ends up doing.
What appeal is being made in the following sentence (ethos, pathos, or logos)?
If you donate just $5, you will save the provide life-saving meals to 10 children experiencing debilitating starvation.
Pathos.
What figurative language do these lyrics from "Good Looking" by Suki Waterhouse use?
"The skyline falls as I try to make sense of it all / I thought I'd uncovered your secrets, but turns out there's more"
Personification: "the skyline falls" is personification because it gives a human action (falling) to a nonhuman thing (skyline).
What is the connotation of the word "horrendous"?
Negative, awful, horrible
What figurative language is the following sentence:
"The leaves danced in the cool autumn breeze as they floated down from the trees and painted the landscape in bright hues of crimson and burgundy."
Personification
What is the definition of reasoning in a literary analysis?
The part of a literary analysis where you explain how your evidence supports your claim.
What rhetorical device does the following quote use?
"Children learn in social-studies class and in the news of the lynching of blacks, the denial of rights to women, the murders of gay men. It is difficult to know how to convince them that this amounts to 'crown thy good with brotherhood,' that amid all the failures is something spectacularly successful."
Allusion
What figurative language do these lyrics from "Slipping Through My Fingers" by ABBA use?
"Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture / And save it from the funny tricks of time"
Personification: time cannot play tricks
Which word has a positive connotation?
Jeopardy, hysterical, rehabilitation, serrations
Rehabilitation because it is the process of healing or improving after past trauma.
What to things are being compared in the following metaphor from "I Have A Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr.?
"When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir."
MLK compares the founding fathers to architects.
OR
MLK compares the Declaration of Independence to a promissory note.
Which of these is the best example of a claim and why?
A: Valenzuela uses foreshadowing to create a tone of dread.
B: In the text, it says: "He had a truly patriotic task, both self-sacrificing and uplifting," (Valenzuela 10), which is an example of irony because it is sarcastic.
C: Valenzuela uses idioms to create a sense of dread, which contributes to the suspenseful tone; this highlights Juan's absorption into an authoritarian system.
C, because it both states an opinion of an interpretation of the text and tells the reader what effect it has.
What is an effect a metaphor can have in an argumentative text?
Metaphors can compare an unknown or general idea with something people have more personal experience with in order to illustrate a point.