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Housekeeping Today is the last day to turn in “Digital Sea” worksheet and Spring Break Work Typing Web Advanced Lessons extra credit is open until March 31 st and will be entered at that time. Home Learning: Study Week 12 Log Vocab. Quiz which will be on 3/30 (B) & 3/31 (A.) This is a fourth quarter grade. Remember, the fourth nine weeks late work policy is NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED. Brace yourselves…

Bell Ringer Directions:“Red” by Taylor Swift Read the following excerpt (on the right) and on your scrap paper write down as many examples of figurative language as you can find. Remember, some can be multiple examples. Label each device and then explain how the figurative language helps the reader better understand the author’s meaning. Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street Faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly Loving him is like trying to change your mind once you're already flying through the free fall Like the colors in autumn, so bright just before they lose it all [Chorus:] Losing him was blue like I'd never known Missing him was dark grey all alone Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met But loving him was red Loving him was red

Housekeeping Typing Web Advanced Lessons extra credit is open until March 31 st and will be entered at that time. Home Learning: Study Week 12 Log Vocab. Quiz which will be on 3/30 (B) & 3/31 (A.) This is a fourth quarter grade. Remember, the fourth nine weeks late work policy is NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED. Brace yourselves…

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Descriptive & Figurative Language Materials needed: -comp. book -8 post-its (per student)

Descriptive Language Descriptive language creates a mood, person, place, thing, event, emotion, or experience. It uses images that appeal to the reader’s senses, helping the reader to imagine how a subject looks, sounds, smells, tastes, or feels. Includes: o Alliteration o Allusion o Imagery o Irony o Mood o Onomatopoeia o Satire o Tone

Figurative Language Figurative language describes one item in terms of another and is not meant to be understood literally. It always involves some sort of imaginative comparison between seemingly unlike things. Includes: o Hyperbole o Metaphor o Personification o Pun o Simile o Symbolism

Alliteration Alliteration – the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words Examples: o Brooke Best’s birthday bash and bonfire o Peter Parker

Allusion Allusion – Reference to a widely known event, book, myth, place, person, art, etc. Julie : What are you doing here? R: Came to see you Megamind’s poster is an allusion to President Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign Gnomeo & Juliet is an allusion to Romeo & Juliet Warm Bodies’ balcony scene is a reference to Romeo & Juliet’s forbidden love

Hyperbole Hyperbole – extreme exaggeration used to make a point

Idiom Examples: 1.Close call 2.Dog eat dog 3.A far cry 4.Spill the beans 5.The cold shoulder 6.Curiosity killed the cat 7.No dice 8.A piece of cake 9.When nature calls Idiom – a common expression where the meaning is different than the literal; idioms are unique to the community where they were created

Imagery Imagery - The sensory details used to describe, using the five senses Examples: Sight – rain, breeze, flames, nature, different colors Sound – slower, “airy” sound for wind, violent sound for fire, playful sound for earth Touch – water on skin, breeze moving hair and fabric, heat from the fire, grass under your feet Smell – smoke, rain, wind, grass Taste - water

Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia – natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words

Onomatopoeia Dog goes woof Cat goes meow Bird goes tweet and mouse goes squeek Cow goes moo Frog goes croak and the elephant goes toot Ducks say quack and fish go blub and the seal goes ow ow ow ow ow But there’s one sound That no one knows What does the fox say? Ring-ding-ding-ding- dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding- dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding- dingeringeding! What the fox say? Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow! Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow! Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow! What the fox say? Hatee-hatee-hatee-ho! Hatee-hatee-hatee-ho! Hatee-hatee-hatee-ho! What the fox say? Joff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo- tchoff! Tchoff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo- tchoff! Joff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo- tchoff! What the fox say?

Personification Personification – Giving human characteristics to something non-human Examples: o Love is blind o The sun is smiling on us today o Jealousy, she will destroy you

Simile Simile – comparing two unlike things using the words like, as, or than You’re as cuddly as a cactus You’re as charming as an eel

Metaphor Metaphor – the comparison of two unlike things, suggesting a similarity Examples: o He has a heart of stone o You are my sunshine

Simile vs. Metaphor Additional examples to help you from confusing the two…

Simile vs. Metaphor Practice You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch. You really are a heel. You're as cuddly as a cactus, You're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch. You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel. You're a monster, Mr. Grinch. Your heart's an empty hole. Your brain is full of spiders. You've got garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch. I wouldn't touch you with a Thirty-nine and a half foot pole. Find all the examples of figurative language you can

Simile vs. Metaphor Practice You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch. You have termites in your smile, You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch. Given the choice between the two of you, I'd take the seasick crocodile. You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch. You're a nasty wasty skunk. Your heart is full of unwashed socks. Your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch.

Simile vs. Metaphor Practice The three best words that best describe you, Are as follows, and I quote Stink! Stank! Stunk! You're a rotter Mr. Grinch You're the king of sinful sots Your heart’s a dead tomato squashed with moldy purple spots Mr. Grinch

Simile vs. Metaphor Practice Your soul is a appalling dump heap Overflowing with the most disgraceful Assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable, Mangled up in tangled up knots. You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch With a noxious super nos You're a crooked jerky jockey and, You drive a crooked horse Mr. Grinch! You're a three-decker sauerkraut And toadstool sandwich, With arsenic sauce!

Work Period LAFS Practice on Figurative Language

Closing Answer the following questions on a single post-it note and turn in to the silver bin as you leave class today. One thing I learned today was…. One thing that helped my learning was…