Unit1-Figurative language
Simile
Metaphor
Unit2-Personal accounts
Memoirs
Showing vs. Telling
Hyperbole
Irony
Idioms
Personification
Telling uses exposition, summary, and blunt description to convey the plot of a story. :
Showing uses actions, dialogue, interior monologues, body language, characterization, setting and other subtle writing tactics to pull readers into your story.
Compare unlike things by using like or as.
Babies' skin are soft as a cotton. ⭐
human-like actions that are done by non-living things.
Exaggeration
A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources.
Oxymoron
Non fiction
Compare unlike things by using is.
Time is money. ⭐
Tell in many detail about just one moment in my life
The thunder last night was very loud. Even I was at a thousand km away, I could hear it. ⭐
Types of irony
Meaning - what the writer is saying is not the same as what the writer feels. However, it leads the reader to believe that it is true.
Step to write
An alarm clock scream at high pitch in the morning ⭐
- Exposition - Setting, Characters, Protagonist's ordinary life
- Conflict introduce - good/bad thing
- Rising action - step of the story about the conflict
Verbal irony
Dramatic irony
irony of situation
Self-contradicting words
Open secret ⭐
- Climax - the big moment of the story
When author say something and mean another things
- Falling action - the conflict is tied up and get resolve
Ear worm = a song or melody that keeps repeating in one's mind. ⭐
Big cheese = an important person. ⭐
- Resolution - find a new normal and continues on altered path (Growth mindset of the writer)
when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
discrepancy between the expected result and actual results
The phrase in a usage of language in having a meaning that doesn't need to be literal meaning
- Denouement - sometimes writer give a little bit after the story that extra from the story. (Called epilogue)
My day is going great, thanks! (spill coffee on white shirt) ⭐
Pretty ugly ⭐
Onomatopoeia
Sound effects
The pin poked balloon and pop!. ⭐
The car crash the tree. ⭐
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