Figurative Language 1
This type of figurative language gives non-human objects human characteristics.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: “The house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid.”
What is a metaphor?
This literary device hints at events to come, creating suspense for the reader.
What is foreshadowing?
This is the point of view where the narrator is a character in the story using the prounouns "I," "me," or "we."
What is first person point of view?
If the tone of a story is suspenseful, this is a possible mood.
This type of figurative language compares two things with "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: “His wife paused in the middle of the kitchen and watched the stove busy humming to itself, making supper for four.”
What is personification?
This is the central, underlying idea or message that an author explores in a literary work, conveying a universal message about life, human nature, or society through elements of fiction and literary devices.
What is theme?
This is a point of view that addresses the character as "you."
What is second person point of view?
This is what the lions might symbolize in "The Veldt."
What is anger or violence?
This type of figurative language is an exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
Name the figurative language: "They live for the nursery."
What is hyperbole?
This literary device describes the author or narrator's attitude towards the subject. It describes how they sound telling the story.
What is tone?
This literary device gives a deeper thematic meaning to an object or animal. The object embodies something nontangible.
What is symbolism?
This is the point of view where the narrator knows only one character's thoughts and feelings and uses "he," "she," or "they" pronouns to tell the story.
What is third person limited point of view?
This is the difference between a metaphor and a simile.
What is the use of "like or as"? Metaphors make comparisons without like or as.
Name the figurative language: “...the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry.”
What is a simile?
This literary device describes how the tone and/or setting makes the reader feel.
What is mood?
This is how the narrator sees the world, based on their worldview and experiences.
What is perspective?
This is the point of view where the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of characters and shares them with the reader.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
Name the figurative language: “Children are carpets, they should be stepped on occasionally.
What is a metaphor?
This is the type of figurative language seen in the Veldt through Wendy and Peter's names.
What is an allusion?
These literary devices "work together" to show a specific viewpoint of a narrative (story).
What is point of view/perspective?
These are details that appeal to our senses (sight, touch, taste, smell, sound)?
What are sensory details?
Imagery is way that authors help a reader visualize what is happening a narrative. They use these two things to create a vivid image.
What are sensory details and figurative language?