Figurative Language
A comparison between two unlike things that uses the terms "like or as."
What is a simile?
The time period, weather, location, etc. in a story.
What is setting?
The author's reason for writing a text. Can be to inform, to persuade, or to entertain.
What is an author's purpose?
An educated guess.
What is an inference?
A paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
Overexaggerated statement.
What is a hyperbole?
When the narrator lets the reader know the thoughts and emotions of every character.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
When words are chosen for their connotative, denotative, figurative, and rhetorical value.
What is diction?
"Tell-Tale Heart," "Hearts and Hands," Harry Potter, When Stars Are Scattered, etc.
What are examples of literary texts?
Volta
What is the turning point of a poem?
She has a heart of gold.
What is an example of a metaphor?
If the narrator is a child or possibly mentally ill.
What can make a narrator unreliable?
An informational text example.
What is a menu, magazine, article, newspaper, brochure, pamphlet, etc?
A word created by combining two words and removing certain letters. Use an apostrophe to replace these missing letters.
What is a contraction?
I nodded, nearly napping.
What is an example of alliteration?
The food kept calling my name.
What is an example of personification?
"Loving yourself can lead to a happier life."
What is an example of theme?
But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded—with what caution—with what foresight—with what dissimulation1 I went to work!
What is an example of a footnote?
The homophone to "your."
What is "you're?"
When there are no rules. The poet chooses everything.
What is free verse?
His smile was my kryptonite.
What is an example of an allusion?
The plot of "Tell-Tale Heart" is this.
What is an example of a flashback?
Hints before and after a word used to determine word meaning.
What are context clues?
Can be found in the title, the introduction, and throughout the text.
Where can the central idea be found?
The two types of sonnets.
What is Shakespearean and Petrarchan?