Figurative Language
Definition of metaphor
What is a comparison between two unlike things?
Human characteristics given to non-living things
What is personification?
The three rhetorical appeals
What are logos, ethos, and pathos?
Number of lines in a sonnet
What is 14 lines?
The difference between connotation and denotation
What is association versus dictionary definition?
The comparison being made: “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!”
What is Juliet and the sun?
5 types of figurative language
What is sight, touch, taste, sound, and smell?
What is ethos?
The quality of being open to more than one interpretation
What is ambiguity?
Type of irony: A wife sells her hair to buy her husband a watch. Simultaneously, the husband sells his watch chain to buy his wife a comb.
What is situational irony?
The type of figurative language: “Oh, never, if I live to a million / Shall I feel such a grievous pain.”
What is hyperbole?
The type of figurative language: “The sea licked greedy lips in the shadows.”
What is personification?
Playing music, sharing stories, and showing shocking images
What is pathos?
Three main types of poetry
What is narrative, dramatic, and lyric?
A character that the reader is supposed to identify with and care about
What is a sympathetic character?
The type of figurative language: “Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, By thee, old Capulet, and Montague…”
What is oxymoron?
The type of figurative language: “He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun's enmity, crossed the platform, and found his scattered clothes.”
What is personification?
Type of appeal used by Churchill: "We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering."
What is pathos?
A line having no punctuation that runs onto the next line
What is enjambment?
Type of irony: Buzz Lightyear thinks he is a real space ranger but the other toys and the audience knows that he is just a toy.
What is dramatic irony?
What is tension or drawing attention to a specific part of the text?
Type of figurative language: “He lived a year in a minute.”
What is hyperbole?
Ways to build ethos
What is appealing to credibility, citing sources, dressing professionally, etc.?
Type of rhyme: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
What is internal rhyme?
Literary term used here: It was such an obvious lie. I was surprised his nose didn’t start growing.
What is allusion?