Ch 14: Figurative Language: Help and Review

Who's it for?

Anyone who needs help learning or mastering comprehensive English material for the NY Regents Exam will benefit from taking this course. There is no faster or easier way to learn comprehensive English. Among those who would benefit are:

• Students who have fallen behind in understanding figurative language techniques and types
• Students who struggle with learning disabilities or learning differences, including autism and ADHD
• Students who prefer multiple ways of learning English (visual or auditory)
• Students who have missed class time and need to catch up
• Students who need an efficient way to learn about figurative language
• Students who struggle to understand their teachers
• Students who attend schools without extra English learning resources

How it works:

• Find videos in our course that cover what you need to learn or review.
• 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.
• Verify you're ready by completing the figurative language chapter exam.

Why it works:

• Study Efficiently: Skip what you know, review what you don't.
• Retain What You Learn: Engaging animations and real-life examples make topics easy to grasp.
• Be Ready on Test Day: Use the figurative language chapter exam to be prepared.
• Get Extra Support: Ask our subject-matter experts any figurative language question. They're here to help!
• Study With Flexibility: Watch videos on any web-ready device.

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