Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Write in your agenda: Linking Verbs Review Figurative Language Library/STAR Test/AR Homework: Read for AR, Study for Figurative Language Test.

Linking Verbs Add Both Linking and Helping Verbs to flip book. Remember a linking verb joins the noun or pronoun at or near the beginning of the sentence with a word at or near the end. The at the end identifies or describes the noun or pronoun. Complete pg. 39 Linking Verbs together as a class. Turn in packet for a completion grade.

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Figurative language is the use of words that go beyond their ordinary meanings. Figurative language requires you to use your imagination to figure out the author's meaning. The water’s reflection was like the sun on glass.

SIMILE-A figure of speech comparing two different things using the words “like” or “as.” After the football game, the boy was so sore he walked like a toy soldier.

METAPHOR-A figure of speech comparing two different things without using the words “like” or “as.” Stars are buttons off the angels’ gowns.

Onomatopoeia-a word or words that imitate a sound The click, click, click of the computer keys gave Mrs. Jones a headache.

Personification- giving human characteristics to things that are not human The moonlight walked across the water.

HYPERBOLE-figurative language where exaggeration is used for emphasis Our teacher is so old she probably taught cavemen how to make a wheel.

Alliteration-figurative language using the repetition of consonant sounds

ONOMATOPOEIA

What type of figurative language is the following sentence? Helga hangs handkerchiefs on the line.

ALLITERATION

What type of figurative language is the following sentence? The boy could swim like a fish.

SIMILE

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence? John is a mountain on the field.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence? Jimmy is so skinny, a skeleton looks fatter than he does!

HYPERBOLE

What type of figurative language is the following sentence? The trees danced by the shore.

What type of figurative language was used? The eery silence was shattered by her scream.

What type of figurative language is being used? The popcorn leapt out of the bowl.

What type of figurative language is used? I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

What type of figurative language is used? You are as sweet as apple pie.

What type of figurative language is used? Careless cars cutting corners create confusion

What type of figurative language is being used? School is the gateway to adulthood.

What type of figurative language is being used? I grew feathers on my belly All my fingers felt like jelly, Then my feet got really smelly, and my ears were green as limes.

What type of figurative language is being used? You snore louder than a freight train!

What type of figurative language is being used? I’m Zeke McPeake, and when I speak, my voice is but a teeny squeak.

What type of figurative language is being used? Cory collected cola cans counting continuously.

What type of figurative language is being used? The lake was left shivering by the morning wind.

What type of figurative language is being used? All the world is a stage.

What type of figurative language is being used? Mighty Mary married Matthew.

What type of figurative language is being used? I fly high in the sky because I am a kite.