SY25 C4, L1 - Figurative Language

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Match the term

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Match the term

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(a)    is language used for descriptive effect to illustrate or imply ideas indirectly. Words are used differently from their literal meaning to create deeper meaning.

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"My to-do list, once a blank canvas of potential, has become a tangled forest where priorities fight to find the light.

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"Burdens piled up like bricks in an endless wall—chores multiplied by the second, homework towered above me like a skyscraper, and decisions crashed down like relentless waves on a fragile shore."

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"Growing up was like trying to swim against a powerful current while carrying a heavy backpack filled with expectations, each step forward demanding strength I wasn’t sure I had."

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• (a)   the emotional tone or atmosphere that is created in a piece of writing for the reader to experience

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Authors will select words with a positive or negative (a)   (feeling/emotion) that will reflect will convey the attitude toward a subject.

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1. How does the metaphor, “ searching for an opportunity felt like trying to catch lightning in a 

    bottle,” contribute to the mood of this passage?

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2. Read this sentence from the passage.

"....the arguments that swirled like storm clouds above her, blocking the sunlight she so 

        desperately needed."

How does the use of personification contribute to the mood of this passage?