Figurative Language
What is figurative language?
Uses words or phrases in a non-literal way to convey emotion and imagery in a story or text. They go beyond the literal meaning.
What is a preposition?
Indicating location, direction, time, or manner that shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and other words too.
What's the theme of an argumentative essay?
To persuade the reader to agree with the authors point of view.
What is tone?
The general attitude of a text, story, or a situation.
Why does Yanek decide he will live after he has been in the gas chambers and survived?
He has a sudden impulse that gains him not to give up.
How do you use personification in a sentence?
Use human qualities into an inanimate object, animals, or abstract ideas.
How do you use a conjunction?
Connects words, phrases, and clauses.
What's the theme of 'The Chronicles Narnia'?
Good versus evil, redemption, and sacrifice.
What is the difference between irony and dramatic irony?
Irony is a literary device where there is contrast is between to what happens and what is expected to happen.
How does Prisoner B-3087 use dramatic irony?
By the history of the Holocaust, knowing of what happens leads to dramatic irony from the readers knowing something Yanek does not.
What is an idiom?
An exaggeration that put together the idea of a feeling but into an overemphasis phrase.
What is a prefix?
A letter or a group or letters added to the beginning to change the meaning.
What is the theme of 'Snow White'?
Beauty, jealousy, vanity, and good versus evil.
How does action convey imagery?
Using details and descriptive words to make movement and sensory ideas.
What is the theme of Prisoner B-3087?
Antisemitism
What is an allusion?
A phrase that calls someone or something to attention with indirectly mentioning it.
How do you know where to put a comma?
Separate items in a list, connect independent clauses, mark introductory words and phrases, set off non-essential information, use them in dates and numbers.
What's the theme of a informational text?
When does symbolism play a part in the tone of a text?
Adding layers of meaning to go beyond the literal meaning of the text with adding complexity.
What are allusions in Prisoner B-3087?
What is an oxymoron?
A figure of speech that uses contradictory words in a conjunction.
What is the difference between a verb and an adverb?
Verbs express action while adverbs modify the verbs.
What is the theme of 'The Secret Garden'?
Healing within both a physical and emotional form, through the connection of nature. The rediscovery of oneself.
What is the use of foreshadowing for?
To hint at future events that might occur and making suspense and tension with it.
How does the actions in Prisoner B-3087 show conflict?
The internal struggles with survival and responsibility , clashes with the government, and brutal realities of the concentration camps.