1. Notes

2. Ex: Fred’s eyes are as blue as the sky on a cloudless winter morning.
Simile
Comparing 2 things using like or as
Ex: Fred’s eyes are as blue as the sky on a cloudless winter morning.

3. Ex: Fred’s eyes are like the sky on a cloudless winter morning.
Simile
Comparing 2 things using like or as
Ex: Fred’s eyes are like the sky on a cloudless winter morning.

4. A direct comparison of two unlike things
Metaphor
A direct comparison of two unlike things
Ex: That wave is a monster.
Fred’s eyes are an early morning sky.

5. Create your own:
Simile
Metaphor
A dog is like/as…
A pencil is a(n)…

6. Ex: “…all summer in the sound of the sea”
Alliteration
The repetition of CONSONANT sounds in words that are close together.
Ex: “…all summer in the sound of the sea”
--Walt Whitman

7. Ex: Try to light the fire.
ASSONANCE
The repetition of VOWEL sounds in words that are close together.
Ex: Try to light the fire.

8. Write a sentence for this picture using either alliteration or assonance (or both!):

9. Giving human qualities to non-human things
Personification
Giving human qualities to non-human things
Ex: The darkness reached out to the campers.
Fred’s goldfish begged for more friends.
The day awoke in a splash of color.

10. Write a sentence using personification.
The wind...
The wind blew against the trunks, trying to hurl them into the raging, black waters of the Pacific.

11. Notes

12. Words that sound like what they are
Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like what they are
Tinkle
Smash
Burst
Screech
Clang

13. An extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
An extreme exaggeration
Ex: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
My backpack weighs a ton.
Your teacher is so dumb, she took a ruler to bed to see how long she slept.

14. Symbolism An object that stands for an idea. Fairness Justice
Balance of Power
Equality

15. Allusion
A reference, within a literary work, to another work of fiction, a film, a piece of art, or even a real event.

16. Allusion
"The girl's love of sweets was her Achilles heel," referencing the warrior in Greek mythology, Achilles, who could only be harmed if something hit his heel
"I am afraid of spiders, but I'm no Cowardly Lion!“ allusion to The Wizard of Oz

17. IMAGERY
Language that appeals to the senses.

18. Show; Not Tell
(How to write well and
keep your readers
interested)

19. whispered, clutched was were been am be Show; Not Tell Use vivid verbs
scampered, bolted,
whispered, clutched
“Taboo” Verbs
(use them sparingly!!)
is are being
was were been
am be

20. She hurried to the store. She strolled to the store.
Show; Not Tell
She was walking to the store.
She walked to the store.
She hurried to the store.
She strolled to the store.
She tottered to the store.

21. student…eighth grader building…monument
Show; Not Tell
Use specific nouns
dog…..terrier
student…eighth grader
building…monument

22. It was very dark outside.
Show; Not Tell
Elizabeth, Ali, and Carol spent last Friday night over Amy’s house. At midnight they decided to grab some flashlights and play tag. Ali opened the front door. It creaked ominously. The four girls huddled together and peered past the safety of the entrance.
Telling sentence:
It was very dark outside.

23. A collective shudder ran through the group
A collective shudder ran through the group. It was as if the house balanced upon a bottomless pit. Carol whispered, “Flashlights.” Four laser-like beams entered the blackness. Useless. The light barely pierced the doorway before it was eaten and swallowed by the night. Wordlessly, each girl switched off her flashlight and stepped slowly away from the door.

24. Now you will create a very short story.
Choose a picture as inspiration.
Your story must be an example of
SHOW NOT TELL