Figurative Language
What is Figurative Language?
Figurative Language is a type of descriptive language used to determine the meaning of phrases that is not used literally.
What is a Villanelle?
A Villanelle is a 19 line poem that has 5 stanzas of 3 lines each, it also has 1 closing stanza of 4 lines.
Its rhyme scheme is: ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABAA. Line 1 repeats in lines 6, 12, and 18. Line 3 repeats in lines 9, 15, and 19.
What is a Sonnet?
The poem must be 14 lines not more nor less. The 14 lines are divided into 4 stanzas. Each line can only have 10 syllables.
What is Cause and Effect?
Cause and Effect is the the reason why something happens and effect is the result of what happened.
What is a Main Idea?
The authors main message.
What is Personification?
Personification is giving non-living things the ability to have human traits.
Where was a Villanelle originally formed?
The Villanelle poem was formed in France by a man named Jean Passerat.
Where was a Sonnet originally formed?
A sonnet was formed in Italy by a man named Giacomo da Lentini.
How do you find the Cause and Effect in story or passage?
Look for time sequencing.
What is a Big Idea?
The authors message in a text.
What is Onomatopoeia?
Onomatopoeia is a sound written like a word, for example "skrrr, grrr, boom".
What is Tercets?
Tercets are a 3-line stanza.
What is a Quatrain?
What is Compare and Contrast?
Compare and Contrast is when you compare on thing from another, and contrast means things that doesn't relate to each other.
What clues do you look for?
Look at the pictures, titles, headings, look for repeated words or phrases.
What is Alliteration?
Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound.
What tool does it include?
It includes an Iambic Pentameter.
What is a Couplet?
A Couplet is 2 lines (last stanzas).
What are two ways you can use diagrams for Compare and Contrast?
Venn Diagram and a T - Chart.
What is the difference between a Simile and a Metaphor?
A simile is comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as", and a metaphor is comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other.
What can you use to make it easier to determine?
Use who, what, where, why, how.
What key words can you find to tell if the passage is Compare and Contrast?
-Compare: Same, similar, also, both, too, in common, and alike to. -Contrast: Different, unlike, although, contrary, but, however, on the other hand, and differ.
What clues do you look for?
Look at the pictures, titles, headings, look for repeated words or phrases.