Definitions 1
The choices and use of words by the author.
What is diction?
Visually descriptive language to recreate the experience for the reader.
What is imagery?
Steve is as cold as ice.
What is a simile?
I am so hungry, I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
The author provides hints as to what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Comparing two unlike things by stating one is the other.
What is a metaphor?
Exaggeration for effect.
What is a hyperbole?
The lamp twitched on the bedside table.
What is personification?
"Darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream." (Taylor Swift)
What is a metaphor?
Boom, bang, clap!
What is an onomatopoeia?
Reference to something or someone culturally famous or significant.
What is an allusion?
The use of something or someone to represent a deeper meaning.
What is a symbol?
I need bread, eggs, water, and milk from the store.
What is cataloging?
The bleak blue water fountain sits in the center of the garden, icy water flowing from its chipped cement.
What is imagery?
A fire station has burned down.
What is irony?
Signifies the purpose of an argument by ending with a twist in the same way that the text began.
What is cyclical structure?
A question asked to make a point or to cause dramatic effect rather than to receive an answer.
What is rhetorical question?
"Please, please, please, don't prove I'm right." (Sabrina Carpenter)
What is an anaphora?
"Could you please do that more slowly?"
What is sarcasm?
The same consonant sound repeats at the beginning of words in close proximity.
What is alliteration?
The repetition of words/phrases typically at the beginning of a clause.
What is an anaphora?
Mocks in order to point out flaws or absurdities in society or people.
What is sarcasm?
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." (Shakespeare)
What is a rhetorical question?
You are my Achilles' heel.
What is an allusion?
"Spill the tea."
What is an idiom?