Vocabulary
When you use a word's literal or dictionary meaning
Denotation
Early this morning, the frost cradled my windshield like a baby in a blanket.
Simile OR Personification
I came, I saw, I conquered.
I action...I action...I action
-Julius Caesar
Frank Ocean should really make a comeback in music before people forget his name.
Before people forget his name, Frank Ocean should make a comeback in music.
You can use this C.A. to show contrast between two ideas.
However, instead
When you use a word's nonliteral meaning, usually to show feelings or tone.
Connotation
There was a firestorm out there. Dresden was one big flame. The one flame ate everything organic, everything that would burn.
Hyperbole OR Personification
-Kurt Vonnegut
My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans.
my mother was...my father was...
-The Animals
My mom had already finished all of my laundry by the time I got home from school.
By the time I got home from school, my mom had already finished all of my laundry.
However, although
Ways sentences, sentence parts, and words are arranged to create meaning
Syntax
'Cause baby, you're a firework
C'mon, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go "Aah, aah, aah"
As you shoot across the sky
Metaphor
-Katy Perry
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones...
Friends, Romans, countrymen
come to bury Caesar, not to praise him
The evil... The good...
-Shakespeare
It makes sense J.R.R. Tolkien would write about magical creatures in The Lord of the Rings given his fascination with Norse mythology.
Given his fascination with Norse mythology, it makes sense J.R.R. Tolkien would write about magical creatures in The Lord of the Rings.
I think of music and food as universal love languages. Almost every single person I've met loves some type of food and some genre of music. ____________, there are some people who like neither.
Of course, alternatively
Smelling very unpleasant
Malodorous
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Alliteration
-Shakespeare
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
pay any price...bear any burden...meet any hardship...support any friend...oppose any foe
-JFK
The rain down in what felt like endless buckets after the 5-month drought.
After the 5-month drought, the rain came down in what felt like endless buckets.
Typically, however, of course
A person who gives money or help to another person or cause
Benefactor
All the pain he had endured was as nothing compared with the exquisite agony of this.
Oxymoron
-Jack London
My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.
humbled by...grateful for...mindful of...
-Barack Obama
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth. Before it is entitled to the appellation, it must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity.
-George Washington
Getting a tattoo is expensive and incredibly time-consuming -- and not to mention, permanent; ___________, you should consult with an artist before committing to a design.
Therefore