Figurative Language
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What is an oxymoron
The attitude or impression of the author in a given piece of writing.
What is tone?
The word choice of the author.
What is diction?
What is colloquial?
Positive, Negative or Neutral:
concieted
What is negative
The nicer way to say something
What is a euphemism?
Mood
What is the impression the reader obtains from a given written work?
Place the quotations and commas:
He absolutely believed that Jordan did it she told me without needing time to think.
What is:
"He absolutely believed Jordan did it," she told me, without needing time to think.
The feeling of non-feeling/ dispondant.
What is apathetic?
The connotative meaning of bolded word:
" The ruins of the sanctuary were destroyed by the fire god."
It'll take an eternity to finish this book!
What is hyperbole?
Describe the tone:
"Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye."
What is formal, detached, informative, apathetic..ect?
Describe syntax
What is the structure of a sentence such as: simple, compound, compound-complex, or containing parallelism?
Caveat Emptor
What is "buyer beware"?
Positive, negative, or neutral.
The world of Six of Crows requires its characters to make pragmatic decisions regarding their survival.
positive/neutral
When pigs fly
What is an idiom?
Describe the mood:
"It was the most hopeless idea I had ever heard, but I nod and pour the remover on the carpet. It lightens the polish to a bright vomit green and bleaches the carpet surrounding it. When Heather sees what I have done, she bursts into tears again, sobbing that it isn't my fault. My stomach is killing me."
What is depressed, anxious, nauseated...ect.
Fix this run-on:
Any father is interested in the sons he has procreated or permitted out of the mere confusion of happiness it was natural that the wizard should fear for the future of that son whom he had thought out entrail by entrail feature by feature in a thousand and one secret nights.
The actual sentence:
"Any father is interested in the sons he has procreated (or permitted) out of the mere confusion of happiness; it was natural that the wizard should fear for the future of that son whom he had thought out entrail by entrail, feature by feature, in a thousand and one secret nights."
A self-contradictory statement, idea, or situation.
What is a paradox?
Connotative meaning of the bolded word:
"I bundle up in geeky snow clothes, wrap a scarf around my head, and plunge into the snow drift."
Man, that really just burns my biscuits.
What is a metaphor/ colloquialism?
Five words in this passage that generate the mood:
"The drawings are not artful; they are labored, covered in pencil smudges, ink stains, easer marks, and little tears from overly vigorous coloring in. But in the crudeness you can see it--his obsession, his desperation, the near-muscular effort he was exerting to pin down the forms of things unknown to him."
What is: labored, vigorous, crudeness, obsession, desperation, muscular, exerting, pin down?
Describe the syntax of this sentence:
"Any father is interested in the sons he has procreated (or permitted) out of the mere confusion of happiness; it was natural that the wizard should fear for the future of that son whom he had thought out entrail by entrail, feature by feature, in a thousand and one secret nights."
What is compound-complex? Bonus: also contains parallelism.
Double bonus: What is the allusion in the sentence?
Juxtaposition
What are two ideas or objects in close proximity to each other, placed in order to create contrast?
Connotative meaning of the bolded word:
"Upon entering her childhood home for the first time in thirty years, she was struck with an overwhelming sense of deja vu."
What is nostalgia?