Fig. Language Definitions
What is the definition of a simile?
Comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
What is the meaning of the word "empathy"?
Being able to relate to someone else's experience because you have been through the same thing or something similar.
Come up with a metaphor for how you feel about this year.
Answers will vary
What is your teacher's name?
Ms. Baylon
What is the definition of a metaphor?
Comparing two unlike things WITHOUT using the words "like" or "as"
What does the word "boast" mean?
Excessive pride
"Jennifer smoothed her sheets over her soft, silky bed."
What literary device can be seen in this sentence?
Alliteration
How old is your teacher?
Ooo, so close. 96.
What is characterization?
a description of the personal traits someone has.
NOT physical features.
In the story "Why Soldier's Won't Talk", what word was used to describe the soldiers silence?
Reticent/reticence
"She walked on her tiptoes through her dark house in the middle of the night. She reached her hand out into the dark, still air to quietly turn the doorknob hoping her parents would not wake.
This sentence uses what literary device?
Imagery
What will your teacher's new last name be after she gets married?
Haffner
Imagery can be defined as...
Any description that pertains to one of the five senses (taste, sight, touch, smell, sound)
What is the meaning of the phrase "human condition"?
"the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality".
Ms. Baylon asked her class to write a paper describing their best friend. Which literary device is she asking them to use?
Characterization
Where can you probably find your teacher before/after school and for tutoring?
What can "allusion" be defined as
An expression that brings something to mind without explicitly mentioning it.
What is the definition of the word "symbol"?
An action, idea, event, etc. that represents something else.
Allusion
What do you think your teacher got her undergraduate degree in? (Hint: it's not English)