Assignment: Week 6 vocab

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 9-A (H)
2022-11-21T17:07:14Z

Due: Jan 23, 2023 by 11:59pm

We have a big Quiz this week. You will need to know ALL the terms we've learned. For the first 15 minutes of class, click on this Quizlet link and practice. This quiz will be matching and mutliple choice and will come directly from Quizlet. So, this will be the best practice!

https://quizlet.com/join/ePn74pXe9

1. Simile: A comparison between two things using the words like or as

As cold as ice

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are gonna get.”

“My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun.” (Shakespeare, Sonnet 130)

2. Metaphor: A direct comparison between two things, without using “like” or “as”

He is a pig.

A sea of faces

3. Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers.

She sells seashells by the sea shore.

4. Personification: A figure of speech which gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

The storm raged

Justice is blind

“The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night” (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)

5. Sensory Details: use the five senses (sight, touch, sound, taste, and smell) to add depth of detail to writing.

6. Symbolism: Symbolism is the idea that things represent other things.

7. Characterization:portrayal; description:the act of characterizing or describing the individual quality of a person or thing.

8. Elicit-(verb)evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone

She's been trying to elicit the support of her classmates for the walkout to protest the gender biased dress code.

The poem is trying to elicit feelings of sadness.

9. Piety- (noun) Piety is defined as devotion and reverence to religious practices and God.

Some people show piety by going to church.He was brought up by pious female relatives.

10. Blasphemous- (adj)speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk.

The girl was blasphemous as she used God’s name in vain.

The English teacher called “Blasphemy!” when the student said they hate reading.

11. Denotation: the literal or dictionary definition of a word
12. Connotation: the attitudes and feelings associated with a word

13. Hyperbole: An exaggeration or overstatement used for emphasis or humorous effect

I’m going to starve to death before the end of third period!

“I'll love you, dear, I'll love you/Till China and Africa meet.”

Any and all yo’ momma jokes.

14. Allusion: An indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place, or event

“Be careful; you’re opening a Pandora’s box.”

“This place is like a Garden of Eden.”

We have a big Quiz this week. You will need to know ALL the terms we've learned. For the first 15 minutes of class, click on this Quizlet link and practice. This quiz will be matching and mutliple choice and will come directly from Quizlet. So, this will be the best practice!

https://quizlet.com/join/ePn74pXe9

1. Simile: A comparison between two things using the words like or as

As cold as ice

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are gonna get.”

“My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun.” (Shakespeare, Sonnet 130)

2. Metaphor: A direct comparison between two things, without using “like” or “as”

He is a pig.

A sea of faces

3. Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers.

She sells seashells by the sea shore.

4. Personification: A figure of speech which gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

The storm raged

Justice is blind

“The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night” (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)

5. Sensory Details: use the five senses (sight, touch, sound, taste, and smell) to add depth of detail to writing.

6. Symbolism: Symbolism is the idea that things represent other things.

7. Characterization:portrayal; description:the act of characterizing or describing the individual quality of a person or thing.

8. Elicit-(verb)evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone

She's been trying to elicit the support of her classmates for the walkout to protest the gender biased dress code.

The poem is trying to elicit feelings of sadness.

9. Piety- (noun) Piety is defined as devotion and reverence to religious practices and God.

Some people show piety by going to church.He was brought up by pious female relatives.

10. Blasphemous- (adj)speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk.

The girl was blasphemous as she used God’s name in vain.

The English teacher called “Blasphemy!” when the student said they hate reading.

11. Denotation: the literal or dictionary definition of a word
12. Connotation: the attitudes and feelings associated with a word

13. Hyperbole: An exaggeration or overstatement used for emphasis or humorous effect

I’m going to starve to death before the end of third period!

“I'll love you, dear, I'll love you/Till China and Africa meet.”

Any and all yo’ momma jokes.

14. Allusion: An indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place, or event

“Be careful; you’re opening a Pandora’s box.”

“This place is like a Garden of Eden.”