Characters
Old Major, Mr Pilkington, Whymper
Animal Farm
Verb
simlar sounds between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. - ex: "Ball, Tall"
rhyme
Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
“Don’ you worry, Harry. You’ll learn last enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you’ll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it’s hard. Yeh’ve been singled out, an’ that’s always hard. But yeh’ll have a great time at Hogwarts — I did — still do, ’smatter of fact.”
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Smaug
The Hobbit
a name for a specific person, place, organisation, or thing, such as Peter, Budapest, Mars.
Proper noun
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using like or as. Ex:She was as brave as a lion
Simile
Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
"With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs."
Frankenstein
Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray, Abraham van Helsing
Dracula
the function of Bruno in this sentence:
"Bruno played the ball to Bryan"
Subject
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another. Ex: "Juliet is the sun"
metaphor
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
"True! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"
The Tell-Tale Heart
Friar Lawrence, Mercutio, Lady Capulet, Lord Montague
Romeo and Juliet
the function of "The Ball" in this sentence:
"Bruno played the ball to Bryan"
direct object
Placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect:
Ex: . It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
juxtaposition
1984
George Orwell
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Gettysburg Address
Long John Silver, Jim Hawkins, Ben Gunn, Captain Smollett
Treasure Island
the function of Bryan in this sentence:
"Bruno played the ball to Bryan"
indirect object
A line of poetry with ten syllables, where the syllables are in pairs of with an unstressesed-stressed pattern.
Ex: "In fair Verona where we lay our scene" or "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
iambic pentameter
The Tyger
William Blake
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them.
Hamlet