Figurative Language
An extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
The underlying message of a piece of writing.
What is the theme?
Using details from the text and your life to figure out the message.
What is to infer?
The literal dictionary definition of a word
What is the connotation?
The organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story.
What is the plot?
This type of writing is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.
What alliteration?
The first thing a reader needs to identify in a story to determine the theme.
What is the plot?
How the author feels while writing a particular text.
What is tone?
An idea that is implied or suggested.
What is denotation?
The protagonist faces the conflict and a change occurs. The highest point of interest in the story.
What is the climax?
Sand is solid water is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
Students often have trouble differentiating between theme and this portion of the text, what the story is about.
What is the main idea?
Using the text to form a mental image.
What is to visualize?
A situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that seems to be the opposite of what you expected.
What is irony?
Occurs at the beginning of a short story. The characters, setting and the main conflict of the story are introduced.
What is the exposition?
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to animals or objects.
What is personification?
Themes that appear again and again in literature, art, and media of different time periods and cultures.
What are universal themes?
To make a judgment or arrive at a belief based on evidence, schema, and reasoning.
What is to draw a conclusion?
Words that mean the opposite of each other.
What is an antonym?
The problem and who the problem is between. Can be internal or external.
What is the conflict?
This figure of speech joins two opposite ideas to create an effect.
What is an oxymoron?
A theme is based on these factors in a text.
What are details, events, and characters?
Knowledge about people, objects and events based on past experience in your long-term memory.
What is a schema?
The repetition of consonant sound anywhere within words, not just at the beginning.
What is consonance?
The person or force that the protagonist is against (can be a character or a more universal force such as society).
Who is the protagonist?