Number from 1-20. Do NOT skip lines. Do NOT write on the quiz. Bell Work Quiz Take out a sheet of paper to share with your shoulder partner and cut it in half hot-dog style. Number from 1-20. Do NOT skip lines. Do NOT write on the quiz. You will pass the quiz and your paper forward in your row in 8 minutes.
Objective: I can point out examples of figurative language in poems Objective: I can point out examples of figurative language in poems. I can play a game. Words for today! Hyperbole Oxymoron Paradox Puns Symbol Understatement
Practice If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth? Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim. The deafening silence This painful love Your lifeless soul With the bittersweet News perched on your Awfully beautiful, Cold hearted lips
Game: Trashketball In your groups, write your group members initials on each piece of paper that you use. I will put an example of poetry or a definition on the board. Write your answer of the literary word on your piece of paper and hold it up. If you get it correct, you have ONE chance to throw the paper in the trash and get the points! If you keep getting answers correct, you will have to shoot farther and farther back. The team with the most points win!
You’re just using me for my queso recipe. ‘Kay so go make it.
Answer: Pun
“Seventeen holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much “Seventeen holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much.” -To Kill a Mockingbird
Answer: Understatement
The car goes faster than the speed of light
Answer: Hyperbole
Truth is honey, which is bitter
Answer: Paradox
What is an object, person, or place used to represent something else?
Answer: Symbol
How do turtles talk to each other? By using shell phones!
Answer: Puns
If I can’t get a smartphone, I will die!
Answer: Hyperbole
“I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious “I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.” -The Catcher in the Rye
Answer: Understatement
David stopped his car at the red light.
Answer: Symbols
What is a statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true?
Answer: Paradox
A horse is a very stable animal
Answer: Pun
Grandpa is older than dirt.
Answer: Hyperbole
What is used to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is?
Answer: Understatement
The green monster popped into her head when she saw her boyfriend talking to a pretty girl.
Answer: Symbol
Wise Fool
Answer: Oxymoron
What’s an extreme exaggeration?
Answer: Hyperbole
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Answer: Pun
Arizona is sometimes a little hot.
Answer: Understatement
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, …”
Answer: Symbol
I can resist anything but temptation
Answer: Paradox
Everybody knows that!
Answer: Hyperbole
It’s a tad chili in -50 degree weather.
Answer: Understatement
Boneless Ribs
Answer: Oxymoron
The best way to communicate with a fish is to drop them a line.
Answer: Pun
Seriously funny
Answer: Oxymoron
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
Answer: Symbol
What is a joke that uses different possible meanings of a word or words that sound alike and have different meanings?
Answer: Pun
Deafening Silence
Answer: Oxymoron