Figurative Language
Exaggeration made to prove a point that is never meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature
What is Anecdote?
Information or rumor deliberately spread to help or harm a person, group, or institution
What is Propaganda?
Evokes a rational response.
What is Logos?
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
When something stands for an idea or abstract concept. Flag = Freedom
What is symbolism?
Sasuke Uchiha, Hinata Hyuuga, Sakura Haruno
What is Naruto?
Bowser, Wario, Luigi
What is Super Mario Bros.?
Type of figurative language during which a comparison is made using "like" or "as."
A situation or statement characterized by a significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant.
What is Irony?
Sensory details in a work; the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, call to mind an idea, or describe an object. Imagery involves any or all of the five senses.
What is Imagery?
Shows cause and effect statements.
What is Logos?
Type of language during which the words mean what the dictionary says they mean.
What is literal language?
What is a rhetorical question?
Goku, Bulma, Trunks
What is Dragonball Z?
Joey Martin, Dimitri Volsky, Jack Evans
Type of figurative language during which a direct comparison is made.
What is a metaphor?
Type of rhetorical device during which a comparison is made between two things to illustrate how those things are similar/related
What is an analogy?
Regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses. For example, "We shall fight in the trenches. We shall fight on the oceans. We shall fight in the sky."
What is Anaphora?
Asks you to do the right thing and help the greater good.
What is Ethos?
Type of language during which the meaning of the words are not meant to be taken literally.
What is figurative language?
How the author feels about what he/she is writing about...
What is tone?
Edward Elric, Roy Mustang, Winry Rockbell
What is Fullmetal Alchemist?
Master Chief, Cortana, Avery JohnsonAlucard, Seras Victoria, Integral
What is Halo?
Type of figurative language during which a reference is made to a well-known person, place, event, etc.
What is an allusion?
A statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true.
What is a Paradox?
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words.
What is Assonance?
Uses Flattery, threats, or insults.
What is Pathos?
All of the feelings and associations that come along with a word. Not the dictionary definition of the word.
Connotation
The overall message of a literary work
What is theme?
Griffith, Caska, Guts
What is Berserk?
Cloud Strife, Aeris Gainsborough, Sephiroth
What is Final Fantasy?
Type of figurative language during which you downplay something because the importance or enormity of it should be pretty obvious.
What is understatement?
Type of rhetorical device during which the speaker poses a question and then answers it immediately.
What is hypophora?
Recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences equal in importance. It also adds balance, rhythm, and clarity to the sentence.
What is Parallelism?
"Give me liberty or give me death!"
What is Pathos?
The practice of choosing the right word for the right place...
What is diction?
Three types of irony that exist.
What is verbal, situational, and dramatic?
Kagome Higurashi, Miroku, Sango
What is Inuyasha?
Tommy Vercetti, Frank Tenpenny, Dimitri Rascalo
What is Grand Theft Auto?
This does not belong in this category: Type of devices that increase the effectiveness of a speaker or writer.
What is a rhetorical device?
When the affirmative is described through the use of the negative, i.e. "She isn't Miss America."
What is litotes?
The voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author.
What is Persona?
Appeals to widely accepted moral values.
What is Ethos?
When certain words and pieces of figurative language are selected in order to manipulate how the reader feels while reading something, the author is said to be intentionally controlling the ____________.
What is atmosphere?
What rhetorical device is used here: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
What is antithesis?
Yuki Sohma, Kyo Sohma, Tohru Honda
What is Fruits Basket?
Diddy, Dixie, Cranky
What is Donkey Kong?