Figurative Language
The type of Figurative Language that compares two things using like or as.
What is a Simile?
This word mean uses the prefix "uni" and means one directional.
What is unidirectional?
This word is the literal definition of a word.
Words or phrases that appear in a text to help you determine their meaning. (examples-synonym, restatement, or contrast of ideas)
What are context clues?
This is the attitude the writer presents toward his subject or audience.
What is Tone?
The type of figurative language that is used to exaggerate a statement.
What is a hyperbole?
This prefix means "NOT".
What is "in"?
This is a word, sound, phrase, or sentence that is repeated in a poem or piece of writing.
What is repetition?
This is the way the author shapes the flow of information in a text.
What is pacing?
What is Informal Grammar?
The type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to something that is not human.
What is personification?
This prefix means "outside the scope of".
What is "extra"?
This is an object, person, animal, or place that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
This is the feeling that is created in the reader by a piece of writing.
What is Mood?
This is the most important concept in a text.
"I have a million hours of homework" is an example of this type of Figurative Language.
What is a hyperbole?
This word means not direct.
What is indirect?
This is making an educated guess based on information in a text.
What is an inference?
This is when the author uses clues about a characters personality to tell the reader what they are like.
What is indirect characterization?
This is the term used for an author using clever turns of phrase or pictures to amuse and inform.
What is Comic Diction?
"Sometimes, when I am really hungry, I eat like a pig!" is an example of this type of Figurative Language.
What is a simile?
In the following sentence the meaning of the word "elated" is _____________.
The team was elated when they won the trophy.
UPSET, OVERJOYED, PLEASANT, MAD
What is overjoyed?
Scared, anxious, excited, worried, are examples of _______________.
THEME, TONE, DICTION, CENTRAL IDEA
What is Tone?
This is when the author uses specific language that appeals to the readers senses.
What is imagery?
This is the term used for starting a sentence using and, but, so.
What are introductory conjunctions?