Figurative Language
A comparison of two things using like or as
What is a simile?
Also known as the main idea: is a brief, overall summary of what the entire story is about
What is a central idea?
The writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience.
What is a tone?
A situation in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality.
What is irony?
This is an example of what type of figurative language: "It's raining cats and dogs."
What is an Idiom?
Hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word
What are context clues?
What is an adjective?
"This house is too expensive, and that house is too small." is an example of this kind of sentence.
What is a compound sentence?
a question that isn’t intended to be answered
What is a rhetorical question?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is Alliteration?
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
What is an inference?
What is a verb?
The sentence "Run to the store and get me a pound of butter a loaf of bread and a dozen oranges." is missing this kind of punctuation.
What is a comma?
"Boom!" is this kind of figurative language.
What is onomatopoeia?
"You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to understand poetry" is an example of this kind of figurative language.
What is an allusion?
"The chicken crossed the road" is an example of active voice, while "the road was crossed by the chicken" is an example of this.
What is passive voice?
Describe or modify verbs, adjectives, or clauses.
What is an adverb?
Using similar words, clauses, phrases, sentence structure, or other grammatical elements to emphasize similar ideas in a sentence
What is parallelism?
a word or phrase that evokes a negative emotional response
What is a negative connotation?
The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a sentence or verse is this kind of figurative language.
What is assonance?
A lesson or message explored throughout a work of literature.
Provide context and establish relationships.
What is a preposition?
A noun phrase that comes after another noun phrase (its antecedent) to provide extra information about it
What is an appositive?
-fin-, meaning end/limit, is an example of this.
What is a Latin root?