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Definitions
Figurative Language Examples
Tone and Mood
Tone Passages
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a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
"I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space."
What is a metaphor?
100
The definition of tone.
The author's attitude.
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Rachel/Rachelle and some other twit natter about the movie date before Mr. Stetman starts class. I want to puke. Rachel/Rachelle is just “Andy this” and “Andy that.” Could she be more obvious? I close my ears to her stupid asthmatic laugh and work on the homework that was due yesterday.
What is annoyed, critical, contemptuous.
100
The definition of diction.
What is word choice?
200
An original pattern
What is an archetype?
200
"And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils."
What is personification?
200
The way the reader feels.
What is mood?
200
“When I had waited a long time, very patiently, without hearing him lie down, I resolved to open a little--a very, very little crevice in the lantern. So I opened it--you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily--until, at length, a single dim ray, like the thread of a spider, shot from out the crevice and full upon the vulture eye.” -Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
What is suspenseful, mysterious?
200
Alliteration.
What is the repetition of consonant sounds?
300
In indirect reference to art, another work of literature, history, a movie, etc.
What is an allusion?
300
"Shot me out of the sky, you're my kryptonite, you keep making me weak yeah frozen and can't speak."
What is allusion?
300
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
300
"Oh and there's a thrilling shot of one of the kids being sick on a small fishing boat off the coast of Florida and we are hovering over him offering him salami and mayonnaise sandwiches. That one really breaks us up."
What is sarcastic?
300
Provide an example of an oxymoron.
What is sophomore, jumbo shrimp, pacifist soldier, etc.
400
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of several clauses in a row.
What is assonance?
400
"In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops." – Charlotte’s Web
What is imagery?
400
The feelings a word invokes.
What is connotation?
400
“The haunted house was half in the shadows of the clump of elms in which it stood. The elms were almost bare now, and the ground around the house was yellow with damp leaves. The late afternoon light had a greenish cast which the blank windows reflected in a sinister way. An unhinged shutter thumped. Something else creaked.” --Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
What is eerie, spooky, frightening?
400
The definition of theme.
What is central idea or message of a work of literature?
500
A indirect, nicer way of saying something unpleasant.
What is a euphemism?
500
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
What is anaphora.
500
Three things that help authors develop their tone.
What is diction, imagery, syntax, and figurative language?
500
"O, wonder! How many goodly creatures there are here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in it!"
What is awestruck, admiring?
500
Draw a plot diagram and label the parts.