Figurative Language
Simile
A comparison made between two things that uses the helping words “like,” “as,” “than,” or “resembles.”
comparison between two things that does NOT use any helping words.
Metaphor
How did the Puritans feel about education?
They had a reverence for education!
What does the staff carried by "traveler with the twisted staff" resemble?
a serpent
Elvis
What type of figurative language is being used here?
"When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
Personification
What type of figurative language is being used here?
She sweeps with many-colored brooms,
And leaves the shreds behind;
Oh, housewife in the evening west,
Come back, and dust the pond!
Personification
Who wrote "Young Goodman Brown"?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown's wife
Faith
The only lowercase letter in the Disney logo
the i
"I must be cruel to be kind."
This is an example of...
Paradox
An overstatement or extravagant exaggeration, so far exaggerated that it cannot be taken literally.
Hyperbole
What sort of government did the Puritans have?
Theocratic Government
What ceremony does the assembly in the forest parody?
A marriage
Trypophobia is the fear of...
"Through it all, just one thing died,
a little thing called love, something deep inside"
This is an example of...
Verbal Irony
is to say the opposite of what you mean
Salem, Massachusetts
Only ___ percent of the population is left-handed
10%
Define dramatic irony
when the audience or reader knows something that a character does not.
Discrepancy between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate or expected.
Situational irony
Is young Goodman Brown's vision of the dark assembly simply a dream?
Maybe
An "octothorpe" is a...
#/hastag