Give an Example
What's the Term?
Definitions
Anything Goes
Read and Written
100
What is an example of a simile?
(Any comparison using like or as)
100
Our soldiers are as brave as lions.
Simile
100
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Hyperbole
100
What type of story has a moral at the end?
Fable
100
What type of essay have we been writing?
An opinion essay
200
What is an example of personification?
(Giving a human trait to a non-living object)
200
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana
Pun
200
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Irony
200
What were we talking about when we looked at this picture?
Juxtaposition
200
What type of poem was the Jabberwocky?
A nonsense poem
300
What is an example of Alliteration?
(Anything that starts with the same sounds: "The crazy kids caused catastrophic chaos")
300
Life is like a race. The one who keeps running wins the race, and the one who stops to catch a breath loses.
Analogy
300
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Metaphor
300
What was the first poem we read in this class?
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
300
Horror, Comedy, and Tragedy are all examples of what?
Genres
400
What is an example of symbolism?
(Anything that can stand in for something else: dove=peace, red light=stop)
400
A chip on your shoulder - means you are holding a grudge
Idiom
400
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
Onomatopoeia
400
What question should you ask yourself when you are thinking about theme?
"The author's message to the reader is..."
400
What metaphor did Miss Randi overuse at the beginning of the year when we were learning different ways of talking about literature?
The Toolbox
500
What is an example of an Oxymoron?
(2 contrasting words put together that mean something seemingly coherent: Seriously funny, Awfully pretty, Foolish wisdom)
500
They all lived happily ever after...
Cliche
500
The presentation of something as being smaller or less good or important than it really is.
Understatement
500
What are the books we are going to read this year?
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Animal Farm by George Orwell
500
What real-life situation can you relate to the opinion essay? Where might this format show up in real life?
A courtroom