Figurative Language
A simile is any comparison that uses like or as.
True or False
What is true?
Connotation is the literal definition of a word
True or False?
What is false?
What is tone?
Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses
What is imagery?
What is theme?
Language has positive, negative, and neutral connotations
True or False?
What is true?
The emotion the reader is meant to feel.
What is mood?
The five senses that imagery appeals to
What sight, sound, touch, smell, and sight?
True or False?
He buried in a sea of paperwork
What is metaphor?
Which has a positive connotation?
Vintage or Old
What is vintage?
What is the tone of the passage?
The girl could hear a scratching sound coming from the basement. The hair stood on the back of her neck. She was home alone.
What is scared, afraid, frightened, etc.
What sense(s) does this passage appeal to?
His words felt like a dagger in my heart.
What is touch?
The best theme choice is
People can overcome the odds
Life is hard
But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage
Can seldom see through his bars of rage
His wings are clipped and his feet are tied
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill …
And his tune is heard on the distant hill for
The caged bird sings of freedom.
What is the primary figurative device used in this passage?
What is metaphor?
Which has a negative connotation?
Unique or Peculiar
What is peculiar?
What is the tone of the passage?
The boy fell over his friend's backpack. His chips and drink went flying every where. Immediately he turned a bright shade of red.
What is embarrassed, awkward, uncomfortable, etc.?
The sense(s) the passage appeals to?
The flowers bloomed over the green,rolling hills. A perfect landscape against a clear blue sky. The flowers filled the meadow with a sweet floral aroma.
What is sight and smell?
The best theme choice is
Money can buy happiness
Trust in yourself is just as important as trust in others.
What is trust in yourself is just as important as trust in others?
She ran down the street, the green knee socks making her legs look like wild dandelion of stems that had somehow lost their heads. The weight of her remark stunned us.
What are the two figurative devices used in this passage?
What is personification and similie?
"It's certainly unusual to use Comic Sans font on a resume."
Is this a positive or negative connotation regarding their resume?
What is negative?
When the girl heard the scratching coming from the basement, she decided to go investigate instead of leaving it alone.
What is scared, annoyed, frustrated, etc?
The sense(s) the passage appeals to
The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others. No wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long.
What is sight?
A theme for the short story "The Medicine Bag"?
Answer varies