Figurative Language 1
"Mary had a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
"The flowers dancing in the breeze" is an example of this.
What is personification?
The emotions that a text aims to evoke for the reader.
What is mood?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
A form of narration where the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
What is third person omniscient?
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings a tune without the words, and never stops at all" (Emily Dickinson) is an example of this.
What is a metaphor/ analogy?
What is an idiom?
An author's feelings about the subject of a text.
A rhyme that does not perfectly match, but sounds similar to another word.
What is slant rhyme?
Beliefs that a person is unaware of that influence their writing.
What is implicit bias?
"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping" (Edgar Allen Poe) is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
"And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain" (Edgar Allen Poe) is an example of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
A cut-scene that jumps to a moment in the past, interrupting the chronology of the story.
What is a flashback?
ABAB is an example of this.
What is rhyme scheme?
"Her children like to swim, hike, and ride dirt bikes" is an example of this. "Her children like swimming, to hike, and would ride dirt bikes" is NOT.
What is parallel structure?
"Chocolate is my Achilles heel!" is an example of this.
What is an allusion?
The colors in The Book Thief are an example of this.
What is symbolism?
Something (usually at the start of a piece of writing) intended to grab the reader's attention.
What is a hook?
A pattern of emphasis or lack of emphasis on certain syllables in a line of poetry.
What is meter?
An organizational structure that explore a complex relationship between two factors.
What is cause & effect?
Death telling the reader that Rudy will die is an example of this.
What is dramatic irony?
A local police station being broken into & burgled is an example of this.
What is situational irony?
A technique that uses word referents, foreshadowing, the power of three, and other tools to keep the reader in a state of tension or wondering.
What is supense?
A beat created by the meter and rhyme scheme of a poem.
What is rhythm?
The cultural/ socio-emotional associations we have with a word.
What is connotation?