English I Week 9 Wednesday
TEKS
Bellringer Suspended for the remainder of the week.
Yesterday We reviewed how to write and edit well. Any questions?
Go Figure—Figurative Language Paradox: a statement that apparently contradicts itself and yet might be true. Simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using like or as. Metaphor: a resemblance of two different objects is made based on common characteristics. Onomatopoeia: words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. Personification: portrays non-human objects in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings. Flashback: a scene set in a time earlier than the main story. Foreshadowing: a literary device by which an author hints what is to come.
“Hark, hark! Bow-wow. The watch-dogs bark! Bow-wow. Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry, ‘cock-a-diddle-dow!'” (Ariel in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act One, scene 2)
Onomatopoeia
A free ride when you’ve already paid.
Irony
My brother was boiling mad.
Metaphor
You’re as charming as an eel.
Simile
Scary
Simile
Her eyes are diamonds.
Metaphor
Do you believe this statement: I’m a compulsive liar.
Paradox
Irony
After talking to friends about certain fads in the past, Andrew remembered about a time he was in high school and dressed a certain way to impress a girl he liked.
Flashback
Good advice you just didn’t take.
Irony
The test was a breeze.
Metaphor
A character sees swaying birch trees and says, “So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.” He goes back to the days of his childhood, and then returns to the present and says, “I’d like to get away from earth awhile, and then come back to it and begin over.”
Flashback
Buzz
Onomatopoeia
The avalanche devoured anything standing in its way.
Personification
After the teacher took attendance, Sandra was shocked when she saw that James was back in class. Sandra thought about what happened last week at school when James was involved in several fights with other students.
Flashback
Paradox
“He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.” (For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway)
Onomatopoeia
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
Personification
Foreshadowing
Life is like a box of chocolates.
Simile
The wind howled in the night.
Personification
Be cruel to be kind.
Paradox
Foreshadowing