Context Clues and Figures of Speech Flashcards
Hints found within a sentence, paragraph or passage that a reader can use to understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words.
Noting Context Clues
Unknown word is explained by using a more unfamiliar word or phrase.
Definition clues
An example might be found nearby that helps to explain its meaning.
Example clues
Repeats and idea expressed in familiar words nearby. Synonym are words with the same meaning.
Synonym/Restatement Clues
Words that are with opposite meaning
Antonym/Contrast clues
Author sets a mood, and the meaning of the unknown word most harmonize with the mood
Mood/Tone clues
A reader knows from the experience how people or things act in a given situation
Experience clues
A comparison between 2 things using the word like, as or than.
Simile
An expression that describes a person or obiect directly.
Metaphor
Giving human qualities to non-human things or objects
Personification
A saying exaggerated beyond belief to make a point, adding humor and excitement to writing.
Hyperbole
Is which the intended meaning is the opposite of the expression by the words used, usually making the form of sarcasm or ridicule
Irony
Which when heard or read can be seem to be self-contradicting, it may appear to be silly, but in reality it comtains truth
Paradox
A part is used to represent the whole
Synecdoche
Which a word or an object stands in for a closely related and or object.
Metonymy
