ENG 1D1 Thursday February 5th, 2015
It’s Thursday!
The Period in a Nutshell A Review of Haiku Haiku Snowball Fight For the Love of Poetry Figurative Language, Literary and Poetic Devices Similes and Extended Metaphors
Haiku Examples What do these poems have in common? An old silent pond… A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. -Basho Matsuo Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow. -Natsume Soseki
WHAT IS POETRY? Poetry is an imaginative response to an experience reflecting a keen awareness of language. These elements are used to create this effect: Feeling and Emotion Meter and Rhythm Figurative Language
YOU ARE MY LIFE!! A metaphor and hyperbole
Simile vs Metaphor A simile is a comparison between two unlike items using ‘as’ or ‘like’ I am as hungry as a lion. A metaphor is a comparison made of two unlike things not using ‘as’ or ‘like’ I am a lion. Hungry lion
Similes Simile: A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using like or as. Finish these common and often cliché sayings: Fit as a _____________. Straight as an ______________. Fresh as a ______________. Light as a ______________. Life is like a box of ___________________; you never know what you’re going to get.
More Similes Pretty as a ______________. Blind as a ______________. They fought like __________ and __________. Busy as a ______________. Clean as a ______________.
Even More Simile I slept like a ______________. Cute as a ______________. Slippery as an ______________. He sat there like a ______________ on a log. Smart as a ______________.
Almost Done... Sly as a ______________. Tough as ______________. Sweet as ______________. Free as a ______________. That moving was so boring it was like watching _____________ dry.
Your Turn! Now try writing your own similes using like or as: __________________________________________________________________