Figurative Language
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
The person who tells the story
What is narrator?
One is how the author feels; one is how the audience feels.
What are tone and mood?
An appeal to logic, reason, and evidence.
What is logos?
The author's reason for creating a text.
What is author's purpose?
Descriptive language that relies on the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch)
What is imagery?
Person telling the story uses pronouns like "I," "me," "my," and "us."
What is 1st person point-of-view?
What is 1st person narrator?
The audience knows more than the characters do.
What is dramatic irony?
An appeal to emotion.
What is pathos?
The way a text is organized and laid out.
What is text structure?
“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.” This quote from The Fault in Our Stars uses this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
The beginning of a story; characters, setting, and conflict introduced.
What is the exposition?
This happens when what is said is the opposite of what is meant.
What is verbal irony?
An appeal to credibility.
What is ethos?
A text that explains why a dog ran away uses this type of text structure.
What is cause and effect?
The garden "breathes, in the warmth, breathing itself in." This quote from The Handmaid's Tale uses this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
Person telling the story is outside of the story and seems all-knowing.
What is 3rd person omniscient narrator?
What is 3rd person omniscient point-of-view?
This happens when what happens is the opposite of what is expected.
What is situational irony?
When a commercial has a doctor talking about the benefits of a product, they are using this rhetorical appeal.
What is ethos?
A text that explains what the government did to reverse the number of an endangered species uses this type of text structure.
What is problem and solution?
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles.” This Macbeth quote uses this type of figurative language.
What is imagery?
The four main types of conflict.
Character vs. Character (external)
Character vs. Self (internal)
Character vs. Nature (external)
Character vs. Society (external)
Authors use these elements to create a text's mood.
What are setting, imagery, and diction?
When a commercial relies on happy music, humor, or sad images, they are using this rhetorical appeal.
What is pathos?
An author's word choice
What is diction?