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Essay Questions
Describe a key relationship between two or more characters or individuals in the text.
Explain how this relationship helped you to understand at least one of these characters or individuals.
Describe at least one way that a character or individual changed in the text.
Explain how this change was important to the text as a whole.
Describe at least one challenging setting in the text.
Explain how this setting helped you understand an important idea in the text.
Describe at least one memorable idea in the text.
Explain why this idea was memorable to you.
Describe a character or individual that you disliked OR admired in the text.
Explain how your feelings towards this character helped you to understand the text as a whole, supporting your points with visual and/or oral language features.
Language Features
Simile-a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
As sick as a dog
Metaphor-a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Heart of gold
Alliteration-the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Tree top
Assonance-resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels.
Its a box fox
Personification-the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
The wind howled in the night
Onomatopoeia – the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
pow, boom, bang, splash
Hyperbole-exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Ive told you a million times
Imagery-visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
The road was rough against her fingertips
Personal Pronouns-each of the pronouns in English comprising a set that shows contrasts of person, gender, number, and case.
I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, and them
Statement-a definite or clear expression of something in speech or writing.
I held his hand
Irony-the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
The sky is blue
Euphemism-a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
Kick the bucket
Cliché-a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.
Diamond in the rough
Jargon-special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.
Cardiac arrest
Proverb-a short, well-known pithy saying, stating a general truth or piece of advice.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Pseudonym-a fictitious name, especially one used by an author.
XxxTentacion
Rhetorical Question-is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked to make a point rather than to elicit an answer.
Is rain wet
Rhyme-correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
Mat, cat, sat
Tautology-the saying of the same thing twice over in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style.
It is what it is
Satire-the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticise people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others
Sarcasm-the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
Im having so much fun!!!!
Pun-a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
Why are teddy bears never hungry? They are always stuffed
Oxymoron-a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
He looked liked living death
Neologism-a newly coined word or expression.
Truthiness
Mnemonic-a system such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations which assists in remembering something.
Never ever smoke weed North East South West
Juxtaposition-the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Ice and fire
Slang-a type of language consisting of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people.
Brb
Idiom-a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.
Beat around the bush
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