Figurative Language Definition
The opposite of what you think is going to happen, happens.
Type of rhetoric that presents facts, reasons, and statistics.
What is logos?
"We backed up to a gray old man who bore an absurd resemblance to John D.Rockefeller."
What is an allusion?
He began to eat with "ferocious delicacy"
What is oxymoron?
“Women comprise more than half the world’s population, 70% of the world’s poor, and two-thirds of those who are not taught to read and write.”
What is logos?
A text makes reference to something else such as a public figure, a historical event, or another text.
What is allusion?
Type of rhetoric that stirs the reader's emotions.
What is pathos?
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
What is simile?
"I'm stiff," she complained. "I've been lying on that sofa for as long as I can remember."
What is hyperbole?
“Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families.”
What is ethos?
A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
What is paradox?
A rhetorical choice in which the author tries to seem more credible and experienced with their subject.
What is ethos?
"unfamiliar and vaguely recognizable"
What is oxymoron?
"Blinded by the glare of the headlights and confused by the incessant groaning of the horns..."
What is personification?
“Women also are dying from diseases that should have been prevented or treated. They are watching their children succumb to malnutrition caused by poverty."
What is pathos?
A phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to it.
What is an idiom?
The speaker's attitude toward their subject.
What is tone?
“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
What is paradox?
"ridges and hills and grotesque gardens"
What is alliteration?
Consider this beginning of a speech by David Foster Wallace: “Greetings parents and congratulations to Kenyon’s graduating class of 2005. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”
What rhetorical device might he be using?
What is an anecdote? (I will take humorous story or attention getter too)
A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt.
What is a euphemism?
The atmosphere created/the way the reader feels while reading the passage.
What is mood?
“I’ve got my hands full,” I said. “I’m much obliged but I couldn’t take on any more work.”
What is an idiom?
"This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat..." Name the three types of figurative language here.
What are metaphor, alliteration, and simile?
“You is smart. You is kind. You is important.” (The Help)
What is repetition?