Mississippi Solo

Define: Simile

• Compares two things without using like or as.

• Gives human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• Compares two things using "like" or "as".

• Extreme exaggeration.

Define: Metaphor

• Compares two things using "like" or "as".

• Gives human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• Extreme exaggeration used for effect.

• Compares two things without using like or as.

Define: Hyperbole

• Compares two things using "like" or "as".

• Extreme exaggeration for affect.

• Compares two things without using "like" or "as".

• Gives human characteristics to non-human things.

Define: Personification

• Compares two things using "like" or "as".

• Extreme exaggeration used for affect.

• Compares two things without using "like" or "as".

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things.

Define: Alliteration

• Sound words, example: buzz.

• Two words that contradict but have a real meaning, example: Jumbo Shrimp

• Two words back to back that start with the same first letter, example: She sells sea shells.

• A common saying that can't be taken literally, example: "It's raining cats and dogs."

Define: Onomatopoeia

• Sound words, example: Buzz, hiss

• Two words that contradict but have a real meaning, example: Jumbo Shrimp

• Two words back to back that begin with the same first letter, example: She sells sea shells.

• A common phrase that can't be taken literally, example: It's raining cats and dogs.

Define: Idiom

• Sound words, example: buzz, hiss.

• Two words that seem to contradict but have a real meaning, example: Jumbo Shrimp

• Two words back to back that start with the same first letter, example: She sells sea shells.

• A common phrase that can't be taken literally, example: It's raining cats and dogs.

What element reveals that Mississippi Solo is a memoir?

• Figurative language

• Sequence of events

• First-person pronouns

• Sentence fragments

Which of these sentences from the text is a sentence fragment (incomplete sentence)?

• "If you only get sunshine, someone said, you end up in a desert."

• "I guess I'd had enough hard days to last me for a while, enough scary times to be able to appreciate the peaceful, easy, glorious days."

• "No singing, no thinking, no talking to myself."

• None of these are sentence fragments.

Why does the author choose to write in sentence fragments?

• The author is uneducated and doesn't know the difference.

• He helps to create meaning for the reader by expressing his own thoughts as he experienced them.

• He's too tired to write in complete sentences.

• There aren't any sentence fragments, he just writes different than most other authors.