Figurative language
Comparing two things using like or as
What is a simile?
When an author uses an abstract concept to explain an event in a text.
What is symbolism?
FAT-P stands for....
Format
audience
topic
purpose
When a character is telling his or her own story, what point of view is this?
First person
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She seen him everyday this week.
She saw him every day this week.
This type of figurative language calls one thing another. Example: Juliet is the sun.
What is a metaphor?
These birds are a symbol of innocence.
What is a mockingbird?
I'm writing a letter hoping to be hired for a job. I should write in a formal or informal way?
What is formal?
A narrator is all seeing and all knowing. They can tell what multiple characters think and believe. This is what type of point of view?
Third person omnicsent (all seeing/knowing)
Correct or not?
Mrs. Tate gave the tickets to him, her, and me.
CORRECT
Mrs. Tate gave the tickets to him, her, and me.
What type of figurative language is used in this poem?
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.”
What is personification?
Someone wraps a blanket around Scout when a home burns in the neighborhood. The blanket is a symbol of....
Acceptable answers:
What is comfort? Kindness? Friendship?
True or false: My word choice is influenced by who my audience is...
True!!
True or false: A character that changes over the course of a story is a flat character.
A character who changes is a dynamic character.
They're driving a long way and their going to be mad if you don't call them back.
They're - correct
Their -- change to they're
"A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County."
What is hyperbole?
Gifts are left for the children in the knothole of a tree. What does this symbolize?
What is friendship?
True or false: A compound sentence includes two simple sentences joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
TRUE
True or false: Stories need conflict to move them along.
TRUE: All stories need conflict to develop a plot.
Correct or not: Between the two of them, I am the tallest.
NOT: Between the two of them, I am taller.
The dawn came quickly now, a wash, a glow, a lightness, and then an explosion of fire...
What is imagery?
Tim Johnson, the rabid dog, is a danger to the town before Atticus shoots and kills it. What is the dog a symbol of?
Acceptable answers:
Racism
Mistrust between neighbors in Maycomb
What is transition language?
Words used to transition ideas between paragraphs (in addition, first, second, finally, for example, in conclusion)
The part of the plot when the story shifts is called the falling action...
False: The story shift is called the climax
Punctuation: I love to go to the movies but, I always sit alone.
I love to go to the movies, but I always sit alone.