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(Figurative Language)
(Figurative Language)
"The bombers crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling like an immense, invisible fan"
What is personification?
This term is synonymous with the lead character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
When writing an essay, you must break the words into these... which show how you organize your information.
What is paragraphs?
When a celebrity lends their name to be associated with a brand or when they use a brand and are compensated as a representative of the brand, this lends _______ to the brand. You know, ethos...
What is credibility?
When students do this, they consume information by looking at words on the page/screen and interpret what is being said.
What is reading?
"He felt the hidden book pound like a heart against his chest."
What is a simile?
This term provides background information for the reader that usually includes the setting and introduces the characters.
What is the exposition?
When writing an essay, you must help develop your ideas by using this from the text.
What is evidence?
When a speaker tries to connect to its audience by using data like the latest iPhone has more storage, longer battery life, and a higher resolution camera than a Samsung.
What is logos?
When students do this, they conclude what the most important information is and condense it to key and most essential points.
What is summarize?
"With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world"
What is a metaphor?
This term refers to a struggle between a character and an outside force, like a tornado or a fight with someone.
What is external conflict?
When writing an essay, using these type of words help show thought progression and how you may change from one subject to another.
What are transitions?
If a speaker uses a heartfelt personal story shared by a cancer survivor to encourage donations to support cancer research, this is an appeal to ______. You know, pathos.
What is emotions?
In informational texts, this is something the author/speaker believes to be true and is trying to convince the audience of.
What is claim?
"Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner."
What is alliteration?
What is the plot?
When writing an essay, the process of thinking about how to answer the prompt and gathering information to support your ideas is called this.
What is brainstorming?
Going green? Ditch that dish soap!
This is an example of _____ which is used to show emphasis to certain words or phrases that make them more memorable to the reader.
What is alliteration?
In literary texts, this is the perspective of who is telling the story and from whose perspective the reader experiences the events.
What is point of view?
The mechanical hound in Fahrenheit 451 could seen as this, because it showed a reduction in nature and natural things and replaced with more technological advances. It shows that in that world "normal things" were being replaced by technology or machines.
What is a symbol?
This term is synonymous with the resolution or ending of the story.
What is the denouement?
When writing an essay, this type of sentence tells the reader what the essay will be about because it answers the prompt. Hint: it should be found at the end of the first paragraph.
What is the thesis statement?
Postage stamp theft is the most pressing issue facing our country today.
This is an example of ______ which is used to draw the attention of the reader to a problem at hand, even if it not necessarily the most important.
What is hyperbole?
This is the choice of words or phrases used in a text.
What is diction?