ENGLISH - 2nd Quarter: Finals

Prior Knowledge

• Refers to experiences and info that have been previously aquired and learned, you must tap into your prior knowledge so that you can make connections between what you already know and the new info

Figure of speech

is an expression that has a meaning other than the literal meaning

Figurative language

refers to language that contains figures of speech, while figures of speech are the particular techqinues

Comparison of two things using “like” or “as”

Simile

Two things are compared without using “Like” or “as”, uses “is” or “are” “was”

Metaphor

Giving human traits to objects or ideas

Personification

Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect

Hyperbole

this figure of speech tries to use a word in a literal sense that debunks what has just been said

IRONY

is a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or the whole is used to represent a part. It involves a form of substitution where a specific part of an object or concept is used to refer to the entirety of that object or concept, or vice versa.

Synecdoche

the name of one object is substituted for something closely associated

Metonymy

figure of speech that makes a reference to people,places, events, or literary works directly or by implying them

Allusion

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Addressing someone absent, dead, or non human as if that person or thing were present/living

Apostrophe

Is a statement which at first glance, appears to be contradictory, but on further reading, it seems to contain an element of truth

Paradox

That employs a suitable epithet or appellative to cite a person or thing rather the original name

Antonomasia

• A series of words that begin with the same consonant sound

• Dans dog dove deep in the dam,drking dirty water as he dove

Alliteration

• The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together is

• repeated words = are together ex: oo, ee, tt

Go good have good round and round

1. Assonance

• Words that makes a sound

• Splat, pow,POP,Drizzle
  
  

Onomatopoeia

• Saying that isn’t meant to be taken literally, doesn’t mean what it says
  
  

Idiom

• When two words are put together that contract each other “opposites

• Pretty ugly, Freezer Burn

Oxymoron