1. Agenda (for me) Voice Lesson: Fig. Lang. #1 Vocab Quiz Unit 8
Clock Buddies
Intro to H. Condition Unit
- video montage
ATSS
- Chaps. 1-3 due
- Discuss 1-3 / model the D.L. assignment
- intro to D.L. assignment
- select groups

2. Reminders – 10/3/16 Vocab Quiz Unit 8 today!
Starting today you should bring A Thousand Splendid Suns every day! This means you should have your book today!
You should have Chapters 1-3 read for class today!
Reading Schedule will be given today
New Unit starts today! Topic/Thematic Concept: The Human Condition.

3. What is Figurative Language?
Any language that is NOT used in a literal (meaning exactly what it says) way
A way of saying one thing and meaning another
Examples:
That ball sat in the outfield.
Jimmy ran like a cheetah to first base.
If looked at literally, the statements don’t make sense at all.

4. Why use Figurative Language?
It’s a rich, strong, and vivid way to express meaning
We are able to say much more in fewer words.

5. Example
“My love is like a red, red rose” (Robert Burns)
He is saying is love is beautiful, soft, and fragrant.
The rose is red, the color of passion and love. This adds another dimension.
The rose also has thorns, which says that there’s a potential danger in loving her. She may hurt him.
The poet has squeezed many ideas into a single line.

6. Caution about Figurative Language
While it is useful, it can be overdone.
When a figure of speech is used over and over again, it loses its freshness and originality and becomes a cliché, a stale and overused expression.
Pretty as a picture
Quiet as a mouse
Laughter is the best medicine
Every cloud has a silver lining.

7. Metaphors and Similes
Used to compare things that are not usually seen as similar.
Metaphors IMPLY the comparison
Similes STATE the comparison directly
Comparison of unlike things

8. Let’s look at an example
Metaphor (IMPLY)
Simile (STATE)
That test was a bear!
Not saying it was a literal bear, but that it was unpredictable and hard to deal with.
Comparison is not directly stated; rather it is implied or suggested
You identify the bear with the test.
“That test was like struggling with a bear!”
Still not literal – not really like struggling with a bear

9. Metaphors and Similes
They have literal terms and figurative terms
The literal term is what we are comparing to something else. It’s what’s real; it means what it is.
For example, “That test was a bear!” (Literal term is test)
The figurative term is what is being compared to the literal term.
For example, “That test was a bear!” (Figurative term is bear)

10. Try it Out!
Read the following sentences and determine a) metaphor or simile; b) literal term c) figurative term
I got a flood of mail yesterday.
Alice sang like a crow.
Jeff was taller than the Empire State Building.
The shoes cost a king’s ransom.

11. Figurative Language in Action
Read and Think:
Write About It:
I was seven, I lay in the car
watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass.
My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin.
-- Naomi Shihab Nye, “Making a Fist,” Words Under the Words: Selected Poems
What is the metaphor in this poem? What is literal term? What is the figurative term? What does the metaphor imply?
How would the meaning and impact of these lines change if Nye said simply, My stomach really hurt?

12. Vocab Quiz Unit 8

13. Focus statement
Today the topic of discussion is the human condition and the goal is to define and explain the concept with examples.

14. Video montage: The Human Condition
Intro Concept:
Video montage: The Human Condition
Discussion Partners: Discuss the video – what did you see? Define the human condition. (concisely and clearly)

15. Compass Needle Mullah Faizullah Endure
Choose one and explain its significance to the first 3 chapters.

16. Discussion Leader Group Assignment
Discuss Chaps. 1-3
Show example handout
Review assignment
Select Groups/dates