Week 1 - English

A simile.....

• tells what a person likes
• compares two unlike things using the words like or as
• compares two similar things 
• tells what a person is doing

Similes and metaphors are poetic devices. What does this mean?

• Every poem has at least one simile or metaphor

• They are literary techniques commonly found in poetry

• They are rarely used in writings other than poetry

• They are tricks poets use to fool their readers

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that uses the words "like" or "as"

• A comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"

• An adverbial phrase that compares one thing to another

• A type of poem in which two things are compared

An oxymoron is a figure of speech that uses self contradictory terms back to back.

• True
• False

This refers to the writer’s use of vivid and descriptive language that appeal to the senses in order to add depth to his/her work.

• Description

• Imagery

• Senses

• Symbols

What is Dramatic Irony

• When one thing is expected and the opposite happens

• When, we, the readers know what is going to happen but the characters do not.

• When one thing is said but the opposite is meant

• Sarcasm

Situational Irony is

• Saying one thing and meaning the opposite

• The characters do not know but the reader does

• Expecting one thing and getting the opposite

Verbal Irony is:

• One thing is expected and the opposite happens

• One thing is said but the opposite is true

• Sarcasm

• When the reader knows something that the characters do not know.

What is a hyperbole?

• A comparison using "like" or "as".

• A statement that gives non-human objects human characteristics.

• An exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literally.

• an expressing whose meaning is different from the literal meaning.

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration