Slide1: Figure of Speech & Literary Elements Sound Devices Descriptive Language Story Elements Essay Styles Created by


Slide2: The sun is like a flower. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide3: What is a simile? board


Slide4: Answer I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron: Penelope did this too. And more than once: you can’t keep weaving all day And undoing it all through the night; Your arms get tired, and the back of your neck gets tight; And along towards morning, when you think it will never be light, And your husband has been gone, and you don’t know where, for years, Suddenly you burst into tears; There is simply nothing else to do. And I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron: This is an ancient gesture, authentic, antique, In the very best tradition, classic, Greek; Ulysses did this too. But only this gesture,- a gesture which implied To the assembled throng that he was much too moved to speak. He learned it from Penelope… Penelope, who really cried. An Ancient Gesture By: Edna St. Vincent Millay Hint: this is similar to symbolism I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide5: board What is an allusion?


Slide6: The sun is like the friend you are. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is a simile?: What is a simile? board


Slide8: See how the stars are blossoming. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is a metaphor?: What is a metaphor? board


Slide10: The wind yells while blowing. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide11: What is personification? board


Slide12: The sun looked at us through the tree tops. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide13: What is personification? board


Slide14: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers ? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked ? Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide15: What is alliteration? board


Slide16: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide17: What is alliteration ? board


When Batman hits someone it goes: When Batman hits someone it goes Splat! Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is Onomatopeia?: What is Onomatopeia? board


Valerio’s pushcart Ice Coal KeroseneMoves clack clack clack : Valerio’s pushcart Ice Coal Kerosene Moves clack clack clack Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is onomatopeia?: What is onomatopeia? board


Slide22: A field of sunflowers blowing in the wind on a warm spring day. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide23: board What is Imagery?


Slide24: “In the spiny brush…” This descriptive line in the poem, “The Space”, written by Gary Soto, is an example of this. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is sensory detail?: What is sensory detail? board


Slide26: Feel the ice cold grass on my feet in midwinter, the hot sun burning on my skin, and at the beach a cool ocean breeze. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is sensory detail?: What is sensory detail? board


Slide28: The “RED DEATH” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal----the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stain upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim., were the pest ban which shut him out for the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-man. And the whole seizure, progress, and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour. Answer Edgar Allen Poe I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is mood?Or, for theme- What is Man vs. Nature?: What is mood? Or, for theme- What is Man vs. Nature? board


Slide30: A single flow’r he sent me, since we met. All tenderly his messenger he closer; deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet- One perfect rose I knew the language of the floweret; “My fragile leaves,” it said, “his heart enclose.” Love long has taken for his amulet One perfect rose. Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get One perfect rose. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide31: What is tone? board


Slide32: Answer “Her eyes were as big as saucers.” HINT: Simile is NOT the answer (although it can be a simile). I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide33: board What is Hyperbole?


Slide34: “ Appearances are deceptive.” Think: what is the speaker trying to teach you? Answer I’m really a nice guy. Honest! I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide35: What is theme? board


Slide36: When I started out on foot that August afternoon, the thunderstorm was blowing in fast. On the face of the mountain, a mile ahead, hard westerly gusts and sudden updrafts collided, pulling black clouds apart. Yet the storm looked harmless. When a distant thunderclap scared the dogs, I called them to my side and rubbed their ears: “ Don’t worry, you’re okay as long as you’re with me.” Hint: Has to do with plot (no, it’s not theme) Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide37: What is the main idea? board


Slide38: In the movie, The Matrix, the conflict revolved around the ‘freedom fighters’, and the ‘Matrix’. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide39: What is plot? board


Slide40: In “The Road Not Taken”, it takes place in the woods surrounded by trees and animals including two roads diverging. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide41: What is setting? board


Slide42: In the play “Antigone”, it takes place at an amphitheater in ancient Epidarus. It describes a central double door and two lateral doors. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide43: What is setting? board


Slide44: In Monsters Inc., Mike, and Sully are the good monsters because they are trying to save Boo from being taken so that Randall couldn’t cheat. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide45: What is Protagonist? board


Slide46: Randall, Mr. Waternoose, and Fungus are examples of this. Randall gets Boo because he wants to be the winner. Then Mr. Waternoose’s evil plan, because he didn’t want to run out of energy. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide47: What is Antagonist? board


Slide48: “Beware the ides of March” Said the Soothsayer to Julius Caesar Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is foreshadowing?: What is foreshadowing? board


Slide50: In the Pepsi commercial, they are always saying “Think Young, Drink Young.” They are telling people that if you want to be a cool young hip person, then you have to drink Pepsi. They use the “bandwagon” effect by hinting that everyone drinks so you should too. They also use the authority technique by using actors or singers to sell the product. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board HINT: What kind of essay technique is this?


Slide51: What is a persuasive technique? board


Slide52: Answer I.Introduction A. Subtopic 1. details 2. details 3. details B. Subtopic C. Subtopic II. Body paragraph #1 A. Subtopic B. Subtopic C. Subtopic III. Body Paragraph #2 A. Subtopic B. Subtopic C. Subtopic IV. Body Paragraph #3 A. Subtopic B. Subtopic C. Subtopic V. Conclusion A. Subtopic B. Subtopic C. Subtopic Details apply to ALL subtopics I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide53: board What is an outline?


Slide54: Be patient with life, despite its cruelty. Often it seems careless of our pain, ut just as often brings us hope again. Remember, I wanted happiness for you.Under every foolish word this still was true.Be happy, then, without, as you would with me. In your life many sweet events remain. Not in anguish, but in joy remember me. Copyright: Nicholas Gordon Answer This is only a portion of the essay- not the entire thing. HINT: What would you call the first sentence of every paragraph? I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide55: board What is the topic sentence? -or- What is the main idea,


Google & Ask Jeeves: Google & Ask Jeeves Google and Jeeves are search engines. With Google you just type in a word/subject. With Ask jeeves you type in a question of what you want it to find. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is comparing and contrasting?: What is comparing and contrasting? board


Salt & Pepper: Salt & Pepper Answer -tastes different than pepper -salt is white -tastes different than salt -pepper is a black spice salt adds flavor to food pepper adds flavor to food I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is comparing and contrasting?: What is comparing and contrasting? board


Slide60: The dog has white fur. (This statement is true or could be true therefore it is a ___________.) Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is fact?: What is fact? board


Slide62: That man is so ugly! (This statement is a “belief” and other people might have different beliefs, also this statement is not backed by proof/ facts therefore it is an ___________. Answer


What is an opinion?: What is an opinion? board


Slide64: These have been around for a long time. They used to be carved or painted on to shields to represent clans or clan names in the medieval ages. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is a symbol?: What is a symbol? board


Slide66: “Nice weather!" when it is raining Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide67: What is irony ? board


Slide68: Keith rudely told Philip, “Don’t go to the game!” Philip replied sarcastically, “I will if I want to!” From what vantage point is this told from? Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is a 3rd person point of view?: What is a 3rd person point of view? board


Slide70: As I waited for the bus, I noticed an old man with a cart full of groceries. I noticed that an orange fell out of the cart and rolled onto the grass with a thud. Quickly, I grabbed the orange before it rolled into the street and placed it back into his basket. I smiled at him as he thanked me. From what vantage point is this told from? Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is 1st person point of view?: What is 1st person point of view? board


Slide72: And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide73: board What is assonance?


Slide74: The golden brooch my mother wore She left behind for me to wear; I have no thing I treasure more: Yet, it is something I could spare. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide75: board What is end rhyme?


A clear sheet of skycalligraphy of blackbirdswritten and erased: A clear sheet of sky calligraphy of blackbirds written and erased Answer Hint: What type of poetry are these two examples? A morning glory Twined round the bucket: I will ask my neighbor for water. I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is haiku?: What is haiku? board


There was an Old Man with a beard Who said, “It is just as I feared! Two owls and a Hen Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!”: There was an Old Man with a beard Who said, “It is just as I feared! Two owls and a Hen Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!” Answer Hint: What type of poetry is this an example of? I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


What is a limerick?: What is a limerick? board


Slide80: …and caught in his two hands like squirming puppies to beat their brains out, spattering the floor. Then he dismembered them and made his meal, Gaping and crunching like a mountain lion-.” Answer The Odyssey I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide81: What is imagery or sensory detail? board


Slide82: He lived a year in a minute. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide83: What is a hyperbole? board


Slide84: You go on a date, sit in a corner of the restaurant for a romantic evening. Halfway through dinner, the lights dim. This would be called ______________ lighting to fit the atmosphere of the dinner date. Answer I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide85: What is mood? board


Slide86: Nicole’s voice trembled with anguish (sadness) and fear as she tried to explain to her parents why she was truant in school that day. Answer HINT: How would you describe the “sound” of her voice as she talked to her parents? I don’t know the answer- Back to the Board


Slide87: What is tone? board


Slide88: The End Works Cited Page Created by Ms. Borgardt’s Sophomore class 2002 to 2003 board


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What type of essay is this statement an example of?: What type of essay is this statement an example of? “If they will… Let me have wood enough to keep fires, I design to be pleased. I could content myself almost anywhere three months; but surrounded with forests, can you believe that wood is not to be had because people cannot be found to cut and cart it?” Answer


What is cause and effect?: What is cause and effect? board