Figurative Language and Analysis

What is the tenor and what is the vehicle?

What are the characteristics of Imaginative Comparison?

• They elicit vivid emotions.

• They are the same as literal descriptions.

• They often convey more concrete meanings.

• They are factual and logical.

What is a Simile?

• A comparison of two things using as, like, or as if.

• A direct comparison without using as or like.

• A figure of speech that involves exaggeration.

• A type of metaphor that is implied.

What is a Metaphor?

• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'.

• A figure of speech that describes one thing as another.

• A type of simile.

• A literal description.

What are the types of Metaphor?

• Implied and Extended Metaphor

• Simile and Metaphor

• Literal and Figurative

• None of the above

Which of these is NOT an example of personification?

• Lightning danced across the sky.

• The diamond sparkled like the sun reflecting on the ocean's surface.

• The pencil rocked across the page, bringing stories to life.

• The washing machine hummed a tune as it worked.

_____________ is a literary technique in which an abstract or inanimate object is spoken to as if it is human.

A __________ is a statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true.

This quote from a famous Shakespearean is an example of which literary device?

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Conceit

• Paradox

In John 1, the examples of Christ as the Word, the Light, and the Lamb are examples of which imaginative comparison?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allegory