Ch 14: Figurative Language: Help and Review
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- Students who have fallen behind in understanding figurative language techniques and types
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- Press play and watch the video lesson.
- Refer to the video transcripts to reinforce your learning.
- Test your understanding of each lesson with short quizzes.
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Students will review:
This chapter helps students review the concepts in a figurative language unit of a standard NY Regents Exam - Comprehensive English course. Topics covered include:
- Metaphors and similes
- Types of narrators
- Allusion and illusion
- Types of irony
- Cliches, paradoxes and equivocations
- Personification and apostrophe
- Foreshadowing types
- Analogy
- Hyperbole
- Alliteration
1. What is a Metaphor? - Examples, Definition & Types
Metaphors are all around you. They're the bright sparkling lights that turn plain evergreens into Christmas trees. Learn how to spot them, why writers write with them, and how to use them yourself right here.
2. Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
Learn how point of view, or the angle from which a story is told, impacts the narrative voice of a work of literature. Explore, through examples, how point of view can be limited, objective, or omniscient.
3. Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
Allusions and illusions have little in common besides the fact that they sound similar. Learn the difference between the two and how allusions are an important part of literature and writing - and how to spot them in text.
4. Types of Irony: Examples & Definitions
Discover, once and for all, what irony is and is not. Explore three types of irony: verbal, situational and dramatic, and learn about some famous and everyday examples.
5. Cliches, Paradoxes & Equivocations: Definitions & Examples
Learn about cliches, paradoxes, and equivocations, and how they can weaken or strengthen certain types of writing. Explore examples of all three from literature and daily life.
6. Personification and Apostrophe: Differences & Examples
In this lesson, explore how writers use personification to give human characteristics to objects, ideas, and animals. Learn about apostrophe, or when characters speak to objects, ideas, and even imaginary people as if they were also characters.
7. What is Foreshadowing? - Types, Examples & Definitions
Learn about how authors use foreshadowing, both subtle and direct, as part of their storytelling process. Explore many examples of foreshadowing, from classical plays to contemporary stories.
8. Similes in Literature: Definition and Examples
Explore the simile and how, through comparison, it is used as a shorthand to say many things at once. Learn the difference between similes and metaphors, along with many examples of both.
9. Literal Language: Definition & Examples
Do you sometimes feel like nobody understands you? Well, perhaps you should try using more literal language! Learn more about this form of straightforward expression in this lesson, where you'll also find some literal language in action.
10. Pun in Literature: Definition & Examples
In this lesson, we'll briefly review figurative language. Furthermore, we'll look closer at one type of figurative language: the pun. You'll be able to analyze some examples of the pun and see why it's used.
11. Literal vs. Figurative Language
Writers frequently make use of different types of language to get their points across. In this lesson, we'll look at the basic differences between literal and figurative language.
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Other Chapters
Other chapters within the Comprehensive English: Help and Review course
- Sentence Structure: Elements of Grammar: Help and Review
- Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar: Help and Review
- Usage in English: Help and Review
- Organization: Help and Review
- Writing Mechanics: Help and Review
- Essay Basics: Types of Essay: Help and Review
- Essay Basics: Writing an Essay: Help and Review
- The Writing Process: Development & Planning: Help and Review
- The Writing Process: Writing & Structuring an Essay: Help and Review
- The Writing Process: Revision & Improving Your Essay: Help and Review
- Writing Structure & Organization: Help and Review
- Reading & Understanding Essays: Help and Review
- Interpreting Theme & Meaning: Help and Review
- Examples of Literary Analysis: Help and Review
