FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
What is a metaphor? Provide an example.
What is a simile? Provide an example.
A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things without the use of like or as.
Ex: Mary, all of a sudden, was a veritable well of words.
A simile is a comparison using like or as.
Ex: Chloe ran like the wind.
What are the 4 sentence types?
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound Complex
What are the 4 kinds of sentences based on their purpose?
Interrogative, Imperative, Declarative, and Exclamatory.
What is a rhyming couplet? Provide an example.
A rhyming couplet is two consecutive lines of iambic pentameter, often found at the end of what a character has to say.
ORSINO[to Viola]
Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow/That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow/Farwell, and take her, but direct thy feet/Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.
What is prose?
Characters speaking in normal patterns of speech.
Describe a personification and include an example.
Giving humanlike traits to inanimate objects.
Ex: The clouds cried, mourning the loss of summer.
What is a simple sentence? Provide an example.
Only one independent clause.
Ex: Chuck and I gave each other high fives this past weekend.
Describe an exclamatory sentence and provide an example.
An exclamatory sentence is used to state something with great emotion.
Ex: Holy cow, chuck ate all the cupcakes!
What is an aside? Provide an in-text example.
An aside is like a soliloquy, but it occurs when other characters on stage cannot hear the speaker. These usually happen in the middle of a conversation.
VIOLA: To woo your lady. [Aside] Yet a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
What is verse (poetry)?
Characters delivering important, poetic lines in iambic pentameter.
What is a hyperbole? Provide an example
A hyperbole is a deliberate exaggeration for effect or emphasis.
Ex: I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
What is a compound sentence? provide an example.
Two or more independent clauses connected by a conjunction.
Ex: He and I chased the cats all over the apartment, and they could not escape.
Describe a declarative sentence and provide an example.
Declarative sentences are used to make a statement or declaration.
Ex: At least once a day, Basil will sit in Chuck's dog bed, causing him much anxiety.
What is a soliloquy? Provide an example.
Characters speaking alone on stage, revealing their honest thoughts and feelings.
ORSINO: Act 1, scene 1, lines 5-15
What is dramatic irony? Provide an example.
Dramatic Irony is when the audience knows something that the characters in the book do not.
Sebastian and Viola, the shipwrecked twins, do not know that they are both alive, however, the audience does.
What is mood?
Mood is the general "feeling" or emotional atmosphere that pervades a particular passage, section, or even the whole of a literary work. It is created by figurative language and literary devices.
What is a complex sentence? Provide an example.
One independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Ex: Sage and Basil, who looked cornered, finally raised the white flag in surrender.
What is an imperative sentence? Provide an example.
To implore, command, or request something, strong commands have an exclamation point.
Ex: Help preserve the Earth for the future: recycle!
Describe Metatheatre.
Metatheatre refers to a dramatic work's recognition of its own fictionality.
What is tone?
The attitude of the author, the narrator/speaker, or even a character that is directed toward the reader, the work itself, the subject matter, or his/her self.
What is a compound complex sentence? Provide an example.
Two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses connected by a conjunction.
Ex: After the cats threw in the towel, we decided to throw a party, yet the neighbors complained, and the party had to be stopped.
What is an interrogative sentence? Provide an example.
To inquire or ask a question.
Ex: Have you seen the catnip mouse around the house?
What is Iambic Pentameter? Provide an in-text example.
Iambic Pentameter is ten syllables per line, consisting of 5 iambs (unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables).
ORSINO: If music be the food of love, play on/ Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting/the appetite may sicken and so die.