https://padlet.com/samanthavillafana8/o3w3q4363ft0 en-us 2016-03-17 15:15:30 UTC 2023-03-03 11:31:46 UTC hello@padlet.com samanthavillafana8 https://padlet.com/samanthavillafana8/o3w3q4363ft0/wish/101565925 An exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.

Example: Your suitcase weighs a ton!!!]]> 2016-03-17 15:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/samanthavillafana8/o3w3q4363ft0/wish/101565925 samanthavillafana8 https://padlet.com/samanthavillafana8/o3w3q4363ft0/wish/101674975 A figure of speech in which a writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to that question.

Example: "After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that." from "Charolette's Web" by E.B. White]]> 2016-03-18 01:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/samanthavillafana8/o3w3q4363ft0/wish/101674975 samanthavillafana8 https://padlet.com/samanthavillafana8/o3w3q4363ft0/wish/101675320 To use figurative language to represent objects,actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.

Example: He could never escape from the iron grip of desire.Her blue eyes were as bright as the Sun, blue as the sky, but soft as silk. She was like a breath of fresh air infusing life back into him.]]> 2016-03-18 01:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/samanthavillafana8/o3w3q4363ft0/wish/101675320 samanthavillafana8 https://padlet.com/samanthavillafana8/o3w3q4363ft0/wish/101677139 A literary device used commonly in literature and in daily life where logical deductions are made based on premises assumed to be true.

Example: Norman sees cookie crumbs on the floor and chocolate around his son's mouth. Norman can infer that his son got into the cookie jar.]]> 2016-03-18 02:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/samanthavillafana8/o3w3q4363ft0/wish/101677139 samanthavillafana8 https://padlet.com/samanthavillafana8/o3w3q4363ft0/wish/101677491 A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.

Example: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…” From "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens.]]> 2016-03-18 02:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/samanthavillafana8/o3w3q4363ft0/wish/101677491 samanthavillafana8 https://padlet.com/samanthavillafana8/o3w3q4363ft0/wish/101683359 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmvYakQ4x8s

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