Figurative Language Definitions
The exagerated statements not meant to be taken literally
What is hyperbole?
The sequence of events that occur in a literary text capable of impacting the characters' growth.
What is plot?
An appeal to Logic and Reason
What is logos?
The story in which a man is convinced that officers at his house can hear the dead man’s heart beating through the floorboard. In a dramatic monologue of increasing volume and intensity—as well as mental disintegration—the “perfectly sane” murderer painstakingly describes how the “vulture eye” of his victim drove him to commit the horrible act.
A Tell Tale Heart
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The forming of a word in imitation of a natural sound.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The type of conflict between an individual and their past decisions that haunt them.
what is Man vs Self?
An appeal to credibility and trust via experts, celebrities, or authority figures.
What is Ethos?
The book that tells the experience of Journalist Nellie Bly, who went on an assignment for her paper in 1887. Bly went undercover to get inside an insane asylum to report on what she finds.
What is 10 Days In A Mad House?
The figurative language present in the following stanza
The fair breeze blew,
The white foam flew,
And the furrow followed free.
We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
What is alliteration?
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance
What is an allusion?
The conflict between an individual and forces beyond nature
Man Vs Supernatural
An appeal to one's emotions through strong emotive language
What is Pathos?
A short story we read in which man vs society is a source of conflict.
The Lottery
“He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.”
What is onomatopoeia ?
The figurative language device that includes expressions that are culture specific and are learned as a whole.
What is idiom?
A complete idea that applies to anyone, anywhere, regardless of cultural difference and conveys the author's message.
What is a theme (universal theme)?
An advertisement including the following:
What is Ethos?
The essay exceprt that describes how a certain director creates suspense by letting the audience “play God”—by providing them with certain information not known to characters in a movie—and illustrates how this man used the technique to create dramatic tension in his 1948 thriller, Rope.
Let 'Em Play God
The figurative langauge demonstrated below:
But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all. It’s small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath.
What is personification?
The presentation of a thing with underemphasis especially in order to achieve a greater effect; understatement
What is meiosis?
A major factor in the limitations of a story's plot AND an indicator of potential conflicts that might arise.
What is setting?
The rhetorical appeal in the following speech: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.” - Churchhill
What is Pathos?
The story in which a teenager named Steve Harmon, age 16, decides to write a movie script about his current predicament. He’s in jail and on trial, accused of acting as lookout in a drugstore robbery in which a man was shot and killed
Monster
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
What is a metaphor?