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Identify Figurative Language Examples
Determine Meaning of Words
Interpret Figurative Language Examples
Determine Tone
Literary Terms 2
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I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Metaphor
100
The husband was EMINENT in the field of medicine while the wife was well-known in the field of math.
Famous/well-known
100
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mississippi is like a desert and injustice is the heat. Dr. King hopes that freedom and justice will come, bringing an end to the injustice like a water brings an oasis to the desert.
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The Baudelaire orphans went to the bedroom and glumly packed their few belongings. Klaus looked distastefully at each ugly shirt Mrs. Poe had bought for him as he folded them as he put them into a small suitcase.
Sincere, gloomy, depressing, etc.
100
The author creates tone and mood through descriptions that use the five senses.
Imagery
200
He gossips like my grandmother, this man - Li-Young Lee
Simile
200
Grandmother is PUNCTILIOUS. Whenever we do not demonstrate good manners, she becomes very upset.
Showing great attention to behavior or good manners.
200
He gossips like my grandmother, this man - Li-Young Lee
The man gossips like an old lady. Probably all the time and about all kinds of people.
200
Rachel and some other stupid girl were nattering about a movie date before Mr. Stetman started class. I wanted to puke. She was just "Andythis" and "Andythat." Could she be more obvious?
Annoyed, irritated
200
The author gives human characteristics to something that is not human.
Personification
300
The Tangerine Times printed a special pullout section on the Lake Windsore Middle Schools sinkhole. They had one huge shot of the splintered walkways sticking up in all directions, like Godzilla had just trampled through there.
Simile
300
In East Asia, to bring IGNOMINY to your family is a huge disgrace. As a result, children always try to find ways to being their families honor.
Public shame/dishonor.
300
The Tangerine Times printed a special pullout section on the Lake Windsore Middle Schools sinkhole. They had one huge shot of the splintered walkways sticking up in all directions, like Godzilla had just trampled through there.
The sinkhole destroyed the school
300
O, Wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in't!
awestruck, grateful, impressed, wondrous
300
A recurring idea or message in a text.
Theme
400
The ruddy brick floor smiled up at the smoky ceiling; the oaken settles, shiny with long wear, exchanged cheerful glances with each other - Kenneth Grahame.
Personification
400
THRONGS of people were at the mall the week before Christmas.
A large, densely packed crowd.
400
The ruddy brick floor smiled up at the smoky ceiling; the oaken settles, shiny with long wear, exchanged cheerful glances with each other - Kenneth Grahame.
The room has a very warm and welcoming feeling, with shiny parts glimmering.
400
The haunted house was half in the shadows of the clump of elms in which it stood. The elms were almost bare now, and the ground around the house was yellow with damp leaves. The late afternoon had a greenish cast which the blank windows reflected in a sinister way. An unhinged shutter thumped. Something else creaked.
scary, foreboding, sinister, creepy
400
Something that represents something else. The fence in "Fences" is an example.
Symbol
500
Frantic, Cole struggled to fly, but he couldn't escape the next. All he could do was open his beak wide and raise it upward toward the sky, the action a simple admission that he was powerless. He really was only a boy, after all. - Ben Mikaelson.
Metaphor
500
Brad made a CURSORY effort to finish his homework. This was unlike him; usually he was not so worried about finishing before dinner.
Hasty; too quickly without attention to detail.
500
Frantic, Cole struggled to fly, but he couldn't escape the next. All he could do was open his beak wide and raise it upward toward the sky, the action a simple admission that he was powerless. He really was only a boy, after all. - Ben Mikaelson.
Cole wants to grow up and leave his home. He wants to be independent. Unfortunately, he is still too young to live the life he wants.
500
The Navy guy and I told each other we were glad to've met each other. Which always kills me. I'm always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
bitter, angry, pessimistic, depressing
500
A question with an obvious answer. The reader is not meant to answer the question, but to just know what answer the author is conveying.
Rhetorical question