Figurative Language
a figure of speech that compares using like or as; Example, The room was as cold as a freezer.
What is Simile?
a word that means persuasive writing or speaking
The place where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
the way a text is organized.
What are text structures?
a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
What is anecdote?
the repetition of beginning letters or sounds in two or more neighboring words; example, "doubting, dreaming dreams"
What is alliteration?
the three rhetorical appeals that mean emotion, trustworthiness, and logic.
What are pathos, ethos, and logos?
the life lesson of a story that can apply to anyone, anywhere, at anytime.
What is theme?
a text structure that organizes the text by first introducing an issue (or problem) and then the solution.
What is problem and solution text structure?
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
What is personification?
A brief, indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance; example, "Olympus is but the outside of earth everywhere" from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
What is Allusion?
words and phrases that express something the opposite of the literal meaning, or the opposite of what is expected.
What is irony?
the events that take place in the story
What is plot?
the organizational structure of a text by time.
What is chronological text structure?
irony involving a situation where the outcome is opposite from what was expected
What is situational irony?
Words that imitate sounds; example, "keeping time, time, time / in a sort of runic rhyme, / to the tintinnabulation that so musically wells / from the bells, bells, bells bells / bells, bells, bells-- / from the jingling and the tinkling of the bells." - Edgar Allan Poe
What is onomatopoeia?
leaving out conjunctions that would normally join words or clauses; example, "I came; I saw; I conquered."
What is asyndeton?
The problem or obstacle of the story
What is conflict?
the organization of a text that first discusses similarities and then differences between two ideas or things.
What is compare and contrast?
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (next to each other)
what is oxymoron?
Understatement to emphasize; Example, when fatally wounded, Mercutio says it is just "a scratch, a scratch"
What is meiosis?
the inverting of elements in a parallel phrase for rhetorical effect.
What is chiasmus?
The difference between tone and mood.
What is author's attitude versus reader's emotions?
The structure of a text in a list or step-by-step.
What is sequence text structure?
an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
What is epithet?