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Figurative Language
Pre-Ap English
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| hyperbole | an exaggeration. example: "I fought a million rappers in an afternoon in June." |
| personification | giving an animal or object human-like characteristics. example: "Alright, the sky misses the sun at night." |
| paradox | a statement that seems untrue, that seems to contradict itself. example: "The poorest man is the richest, and the rich are poor." |
| symbol | something that stands for something else (often something more abstract). example: In Tupac Shakur's song Me and My Girlfriend, the "girflfriend" referenced is actually his gun. |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyme. example: "Hear the mellow wedding bells." - Edgar Allen Poe" |
| Onomatopoeia | ; a word that imitates the sound it is describing. example: "Out of reach, I pull out with a screech." |
| apostraphe | a figure of speech that addresses (talks to) a dead or nonpresent person, or an object. example: "O, King Vitamin cereal, you blow my mind!" |
| Imagery | a very general term that encompasses nearly any description of something that conjures an image, sound, taste, smell or feeling to mind. |
| metaphor | a comparison between two or more things that doesn't use the words like or as. example: "You are an ant, while I'm the lion." |
| Simile | a comparison between two or more things using the words like or as. example: "I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti." |
| Understatement | the opposite of hyperbole, an understatement makes something that is a big deal seem not very important. It's often used for humor. |
| Metonymy | a figure of speech that replaces the literal thing with a more vivid, but closely related thing or idea. example: Instead of saying "give me your attention," you could say "give me your ear." |
| denotation | dictionary meaning of a word, proper/formal, literal. remember by denotaion and dictionary meaning both start with d's ;) |
| connotation | society/cultural meaning of a word, your own meaning of a word, less formal, emotion. |
| elements of plot | exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. |
| physical apperances of characters | their clothse, traits, etc. You will find these info's in the text you are reading. |
| Motivation of characters | is not giving phsycial aperances, but is describing the charataristics, motivation and personality of a character. |
| Speech, thoughts, and action of charaters | when you read dialouge, you can tell much of a characters charactaristics by the way it talks, maybe even how she/he looks. |
| Point of view | the point of view the text is written in |
| 1rst person point of view | view of character. clues; I, my, me, we |
| 2nd erson point of view | narrator is speaking directly at the reader. Least commonly used. clues; you, your |
| 3rd person point of view | narrator is outside the story. clues; her, him, he, she |
| omnistient vs. limited | doest know charaters fellings, but reports what she/he sees. clues; her, him, he, she. |
| theme | the underlying message of big idea that the rider wants you to remember. |
| universal theme | Univeresal means that it applies to anyone, anywhere, at anytime and it will not include the character's name. |
| suspense | making people think bout what wil happen, havin people stay tuned ;) |
| dialouge | one or more people having a conversation |
| satire | using exagerration |
| iorny | sarcasm, cosmic(bad luck), situational irony |
| paradox | a statement wether two parts make atual sence with more thought. |
| other words than said | demanded, pleaded, begged, confessed, revealed, assured, added, warned, staded, objected, exclaimed, insisted, etc. |
| short story "must haves" and "might haves" and "wont haves" | MUT HAVE;dialouge, plot, antagonist and protagonist, theme, title, original, word choice, convintions. MIGHT HAVE; satire, iorny, fig. lang., creativity, imagery, etc. WONT HAVE;multiple themes. |
| text-to-text | making connections with a text you have to another text like articles, books, news, etc |
| text-to-world | making connections with your text to the world like events, etc. |
| text-to-self | making personal connections with the text you have written. |
| alliteration | repetion of words making the exact same sound. |
| Authors purpose | to entertain, inform, persuade, explain, express thoughts and feelings. |
| Literary non-fiction | writting usually writes to entertsin or express feelings while also inform about the authors ife. |
| Syllables | divion of words by units of pronounciation. |
| poem "might haves" "must haves" and "wont haves" | MUST HAVE;title, imagery, diction, fig. lang., mood and tone, meaning, theme, structure.MIGHT HAVE; rhyme, stanzas, punctuation, capitalization. WONT HAVE; paragraphs. |
| Genre | Type of Work- poem, persuasive essay, narrative essay, short story, etc. |
| Tone | Authors attitude toward a subject, in a text; typically of a character |
| Mood | Emotion of the text or character |
| Setting | the importance of the specific setting |
| message | what the author is trying to say |
| Analogy | Similar like features between two things |
| Passive Voice | A sentence which places the object in the slot of the subject |
| Parallelism | repeated phrases or clouses |
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