Figurative Language
Language used for descriptive effect, not literally true, often used to imply ideas indirectly
What is figurative language?
Helps people find the meanings of words, found in the same sentence, or later in paragraph.
What is a context clues?
A intentional exaggeration of the truth used to emphasize the importance of something, or create comedic effect.
What is hyperbole?
Language that makes something seem less important than it really is.
What is understatement.
The aim or intentions a authors hopes to achieve through their writing. Sometime referred to as the acronym P.I.E
What is author's purpose?
The organization of the main events of a work of fiction.
What is plot?
The leading character, or one of the main characters in a story.
Who is the protagonist?
This rhetorical device involves two unlike things being compared using like or as.
What is a simile?
This type of context clue gives a definition, or detailed explanation.
What is definition/description.
An indirect reference to a person, place, text, event.
What is an allusion?
An absurd, or self-contradictory statement that when explained has truth in it.
What is paradox.
The central topic of an expository (non-fiction) passage.
What is the subject?
The struggle or problem that occurs for one or more characters.
What is conflict?
The character that is the principal force of conflict for the protagonist. This character can also act as the Character Foil by contrasting the protagonist usually to highlight qualities of the other character.
Who is the antagonist?
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
This type of context clue gives an easier word, or a word with similar meaning as a hint to the meaning of the unfamiliar word.
What is synonym?
A comparison that show similarities between two things that are otherwise not alike.
What is an analogy?
A contrast between what is expected and what happens in passage.
What is irony?
The authors attitude or beliefs about their subject. Conveyed through diction, syntax, and figurative language.
What is tone?
What is the climax?
The way writers develop characters for the reader.
What is characterization?
Vivid language that creates images in the readers mind and appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
This type of context clue gives an example near the unfamiliar word that helps to explain the meaning.
What is example?
When an object represents another giving an entirely different meaning that is much deeper, and more significant.
What is symbolism?
Use of words in which the intended meaning is contrary to the literal meaning.
What is verbal irony?
The three methods authors use in persuasive writing to get their audience to see their view point. Referred to as ethos, pathos, and logos.
What are rhetorical appeals?
Part of a story where the characters are introduced, the setting is revealed, and any factors needed to understand the story.
What is the exposition?
When the writer tells the reader what type of character we are reading about.
What is direct characterization?
An indirect comparison between two things that seem unrelated, but share similar characteristics.
What is metaphor?
This type of context clue gives a word with opposite meaning may to help clarify the unfamiliar word.
What is antonym?.
An image or metaphor that runs throughout a literary work.
What is a Controlling image?
Literary technique for implying through the plot or character that the actual situation is different from what actually happens.
What is situational irony?
In a rhetorical analysis the two types of audiences that must be evaluated. The first being the people the speaker faces and interacts with directly. The second being anyone that witness or interacts with the message after the fact.
What is emperical and mediated audience?
Part of the story where all the loose ends are tied up and the conflicts and climax are taken care of.
What is the falling action.
When the author shows (not tells) the personality of the character. S.T.E.A.L is the acronym students can use to remember each element.
What is indirect characterization?