Warm-Up: Figurative Language Review P. 14 in your notebook Create a chart term definition example visual Use these terms: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, imagery, onomatopoeia, idiom, alliteration

Why use figurative language? What does it add to writing? How does it make narrative writing better?

Revision Practice Take the following passage and REVISE to make it better by ADDING figurative language. One day last winter, I got into my car to go for a drive. The weather was bad. I was driving down the street when, all of a sudden, an animal ran in front of me. I pressed on my brakes and hit a patch of ice. What happened next was crazy.

The House on Mango Street Author: Sandra Cisneros Collection of memoirs/vignettes about growing up as a Latina American

Figurative Language in The House on Mango Street P. 15 in your notebook Create a chart p. # example effect As we read, note examples of figurative language that stand out to you in the different excerpts.