Figurative Language
A comparison using the words "like" or "as"
"A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them" (Hawthorne 56)
What is a simile?
Vivid descriptions that appeal to the reader’s 5 senses to make the writing come alive.
What is imagery?
This takes the place of a noun. Give examples.
What is a pronoun?
The main idea of a novel; what the author is trying to communicate. There may be several in a novel, and different readers might see things differently. Stated as a sentence (not just a word).
What is the theme?
The main character is called this.
The opposing character is called this.
Give an example of both from a novel we've read this year.
What is the protagonist and antagonist + examples?
Every sentence needs these. (Two different answers.)
What is a subject and a verb, a complete thought that makes sense?
Giving non human objects human characteristics.
"...the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black." (Bradbury 3)
What is personification?
"A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering" (Bradbury, 34).
What is a simile?
Words that connect words or phrases or clauses.
Name the common ones known by an anacronym word using the initials.
What are conjunctions?
What are FANBOYS--for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
The perspective from which a story is told and the three main types including the clue words.
What is point of view?
1st person: I, We
2nd person: you
3rd person: He, she, they
In the 1950s, Bradbury predicted these modern day items in his novel Fahrenheit 451. (Name at least 2)
What are earbuds/airpods, large screen/wall tvs, robot dogs, 24/7 entertainment?
Two seemingly opposite words juxtaposed together and an example.
What is an oxymoron?
Examples.
All of these are this type of figurative language:
"Don't blink" -- "Stiff Upper Lip" -- "Hit the hay"
"Break a leg" -- "Throw in the Towel"
"Mahmoud did everything he could to stay under the radar" (Gratz 12).
What is an idiom?
The chapter entitled Hearth and Home is from which novel and is a form of what type of figurative language?
What is F451 and alliteration?
The job of an adverb and what parts of speech an adverb modifies.
What is to tell how, where, when, how much, or to what extent and modifies a verb, adverb, or adjective?
When something happens that is opposite of what is expected. Comes in 3 types, name and explain these three.
What is irony?
Verbal: When you say the opposite of what you mean
Dramatic: When the audience knows what is coming but the characters don't
Situational: When the opposite of what should happen, happens.
The type of character that does not change throughout the story and the type of character that does change throughout the story plus an example from one of our novels of each type.
What is static character (does not change) and dynamic character (changes) + examples.
Words that sound like their meaning. Give examples.
What is onomatopoeia?
Buzz, Moo, snap, pow
This type of figurative language uses comparison saying one thing is another (implied or explicit):
Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it. (Bradbury 7)
What is a metaphor?
"The train radio vomited upon Montag in retaliation" (Bradbury, 75) is an example of this type of figurative language. Also include the definition of this type.
What is personification when a non-human acts like a human?
The 3 articles and what part of speech they are.
What are a, an, the and adjectives?
The four main types of conflict and the two additional types of conflict plus and example for each.
What is man versus:
man, society, self, nature, supernatural, technology?
Plus examples
Even though the china merchant planned for and dreamed constantly about a pilgrimage to Mecca, he never made the journey for this reason.
What is if he realized his dream, he would have nothing left to live for?
The 5 main parts of the plot diagram and a description of each.
What is the exposition (the beginning where we meet character and get the setting), rising action (which includes scenes identifying the conflict and building toward the climax), the climax (the turning point of the story), falling action (working the way to the end of the story), and the Resolution (where all the conflict is resolved and things are wrapped up)?
Using repetition, this is when the beginning words are repeated AND this is the ending words are repeated.
When BOTH are repeated, what is it?
Example: "First they came for Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for Trade Unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist...." (Neimoller)
What is Anaphora (beginning), Epistrophe (ending) and Symploce (a combination of anaphora and epistrophe)?
Define allusion and give an example from The Scarlet Letter.
What is a reference to another literary work, historic individual or happening, the Bible, or well-known person.
Example: Hester with Pearl was compared the Madonna and Child or Hester was compared to the Scarlet woman of Babylon from Revelation.
Name all 8 parts of speech and give an example word for each.
What are Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective, Preposition, Conjunction, Interjection + examples?
An object, a person, a situation, or an action that has a literal meaning, but also represents or stands for something else.
Example: In The Scarlet Letter, the rosebush appeared several times. It was a rosebush, but it also represented something else. Name what it represented.
What is a symbol?
What is Hester, beauty, redemption, or Pearl? (It represented all of these things at certain points.)
A character who contrasts with another character, typically with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.
Name an example
What is a foil?
Crystal Merchant is foil to Santiago
Beatty is foil to Montag
Clarisse is a foil to Mildred
Name and explain some (at least 3) of the stages of the Hero's Journey.
An additional 50 points for each additonal stage.
What are the Ordinary World, the call to adventure, refusal of the call, meeting the mentor, crossing the threshold, tests/allies/enemies, approach, ordeal, reward, road back, resurrection, return with the elixir?