Bell Ringer Complete the Bell Ringer and hold onto it. We will review it momentarily. Turn in any late/absent work to the class inbox. Finish copying the Mood and Tone Words Chart(Answer Key) into your comp. book and summarize what you learned about mood and tone in your Cornell Notes from last class.

Housekeeping Study all previously assigned word parts for the Week 12 multiple choice Cumulative Quiz on 12/9 (B) & 12/10 (A) Go to blog, print out Figurative Language Mini Posters & complete the literary devices used in this Power Point. Use original examples. Due 12/9 (B) & 12/10 (A)

Today’s Standards LA.6.2.1.7 locate and analyze an author’s use of allusions and descriptive, idiomatic, and figurative language in a variety of literary text, identifying how word choice sets the author’s tone I will be able to… Determine the difference between figurative and descriptive language Locate and analyze allusions, descriptive, idiomatic, and figurative language Identify word choice Identify author’s tone

Figurative & Descriptive Language How to Create a Foldable

How to Create a Foldable Take six pieces of paper and stagger them so they are approximately ½ to ¾ of an inch apart

How to Create a Foldable 2. Fold them over horizontally

How to Create a Foldable 3. Staple twice across the fold to hold in place

How to Create a Foldable 4. Put your heading on the top tab. The title: Figurative Language should take up most of the tab 5. Label the rest of the tabs as we go Ms. Barker 12/5 – 12/6 Per. 2A, 3A, 5B, 8B Descriptive & Figurative Language

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

Figurative Language Figurative language— Language that involves the use of words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of another and that is not meant to be understood on a literal level. Figurative language always involves some sort of imaginative comparison between seemingly unlike things.  Includes: Hyperbole Metaphor Personification Pun Simile Symbolism

Alliteration Alliteration – the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words Examples: Brooke Best’s birthday bash and bonfire 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 Gnomeo & Juliet is an allusion to Romeo & Juliet Megamind’s poster is an allusion to President Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign Warm Bodies’ balcony scene is a reference to Romeo & Juliet’s forbidden love

Hyperbole Hyperbole – extreme exaggeration used to make a point

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

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 Onomatopoeia – natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words Joff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff! Tchoff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff! Joff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff! What the fox say? Dog goes woof Cat goes meow Bird goes tweet and mouse goes squeek Cow goes moo Frog goes croak and the elephant goes toot Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! What the fox say? 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? 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?

Personification Personification – Giving human characteristics to something non-human Examples: Love is blind The sun is smiling on us today 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: He has a heart of stone You are my sunshine

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

Simile vs. Metaphor Practice Find all the examples of figurative language you can 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.

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!

Closing Complete the sentences on two post-it notes and post them on the correct signs as you leave class today. One thing I learned today was…. One thing that helped my learning was…