Definitions
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
These are the two types of characterization.
What is direct and indirect characterization?
This color can represent love, passion, anger, and blood.
What is red?
What does this metaphor mean?
"He has a heart of gold"
He is very kind, he is generous, helps other people.
What is being personified in this sentence?
The candle flame danced in the dark.
What is the candle flame?
The way we learn about a character and how we create and describe them based on the author’s ideas.
Which sense does this appeal to:
Hot apple cider and cinnamon wafted through the air
What is smell?
This animal represents bravery, strength, and royalty.
What is a lion?
Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
What is a metaphor?
Why is this sentence a hyperbole?
I died of embarrassment.
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
What do the letters in STEAL stand for when we talk about indirect characterization
What is speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks?
Draw or write a symbol that represents 'peace'
What is a dove, the color white, an olive branch
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
What is a simile?
Write a sentence example of a hyperbole.
Example Sentence
This type of figurative language creates pictures in text that rely on the reader using their senses.
What is imagery?
Write an example sentence where visual imagery is used (using the sense of sight).
Example Sentence:
Name 3 symbols that represent "love"
What is a heart, rose, swans, doves, cupid, the color red, etc.
What is this song an example of?
What is a metaphor? "Baby, you're a firework"
Write me an example of a sentence that uses personification.
Example Sentence
An event, object, person or animal to which an extraordinary meaning or significance has been attached.
What is symbolism?
Is this an example of direct or indirect characterization?
"Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age . . . Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning."
What is direct characterization?
What is the eye, heart, or floorboards?
2 parts: What figurative language is this? And what is being compared?
What is simile? Comparing their beauty, shining like diamonds in the sky
Find the TWO sentences that show hyperbole
After a few interviews, Marian got a job at Dairy Queen. She served up mountains of ice cream. She served enough sodas to fill an ocean. Finally, payday came.
After a few interviews, Marian got a job at Dairy Queen. She served up mountains of ice cream. She served enough sodas to fill an ocean. Finally, payday came.