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Denotation
What is Dictionary definition
100
Connotation
What is your personal interpretation of a symbol, word, or phrase.
100
Hyperbole
What is The obvious exaggeration used to add excitement or humor to a story
100
Idiom
What is A saying; culturally based
100
Giving human actions or characteristics to non human things.
What is Personification
200
Her hair is the sun light. What type of figurative language?
What is metaphor
200
A two-three word phrase that contains opposite words or ideas.
What is Oxymoron
200
Simile
What is A comparison between two things that are unalike using “like” or “as
200
Old people are as wise as owls..What type of figurative language?
What is Simile
200
Lucy Shagrue and Freddy
What are the names of Mrs. B's dogs
300
Metaphor
What is A comparison that connects two things that are unalike, but does not use “like” or “as”
300
Symbolism
What is The symbols or objects in literature and poetry that represent something important.
300
When an author provides insight into a character’s past.
What is Flashback
300
The pictures that you see in your mind (mind's eye) when you read
What is Imagery
300
The book spoke to me. What type of figurative language?
What is Personification
400
Irony
What is An unexpected ending or twist.
400
Extreme exaggeration
What is Hyperbole
400
Quit annoying me and go fly a kite! What type of figurative language?
What is Idiom
400
Onomatopoeia
What is The sounds that things make in literature or poetry
400
Good luck at your play-break a leg. What type of figurative language?
What is Idiom
500
Alliteration
What is The repetition or rhyming of consonants in a phrase.
500
The perspective from which a story is told
What is Viewpoint
500
the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.
What is Tone
500
the sum of all strategies used by the author to create the illusion that the writer is speaking directly to the reader from the page.
What is Voice
500
An extended oxymoron. It puts things against one another, but in the end finds a profound truth.
What is Paradox