1. Coming of Age
Complete the first page (p. 6) in your Coming of Age packet.
Definition of coming of age: a transition from childhood to adulthood marked by physical, mental, and emotional changes.
Put on the timeline these ages:
Then, above each age, write privileges that go with that age and below, write the responsibilities.

2. Diction – word choice intended to convey a certain effect
Diction can be categorized as Formal or Informal
Formal = language used for educated
audience or professional setting
Informal = language used in conversation or
for everyday use

3. Diction I would prefer to avoid such an awkward situation.
Answer: Formal
I ain’t goin’.
Answer: Informal

4. Syntax = sentence structure how words are arranged in a sentence
Syntax can be labeled as
Short or Long
Simple or Complex (or Compound)
Correct or Fragment / Run-on

5. Label the type of sentence.
Syntax Examples
Label the type of sentence.
I studied for my math test.
Answer: Short
Because I want to succeed, I studied for my math test last night.
Answer: Complex or Long
Because we have a math test.
Answer: Fragment

6. Imagery
Imagery – descriptive words which paint a mental picture (appeals to the senses)
It was dark and dim in the forest.
The screaming and shouting of the fans drowned the quarterback’s play call.
The sweet, juicy orange tasted delicious.

7. Tone Tone – the speaker’s ATTITUDE expressed through words and details
The reader can “hear” the tone of the speaker by the words and details that the speaker uses.

8. Tone Examples of tone words:
Excited, angry, humorous, confident, passionate, bitter, sarcastic, objective

9. Author’s Voice
a writer/speaker’s unique use of language that allows a reader to “hear” his/her personality in a text.

10. Metaphor
Comparison between 2 unalike things (without using like or as)
Examples:
Juliet is the sun.
My cousin is the black sheep of the family.

11. Simile Comparison between 2 things using like or as Examples:
Your eyes twinkle like stars.
The soldier was as brave as a lion.

12. Hyperbole Hyperbole = exaggeration
Deliberate and outrageous exaggeration for a specific effect (can be serious or comic effect)
Ex: I’m so hungry that I could eat a horse.

13. Alliteration
Alliteration = repetition of consonant sounds at beginning of 2 or more words (close together)
Examples:
The wind whipped across the fields.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

14. Fr Eng I Bellringer: Simile & Hyperbole 8/26
Complete the following sentences to create either a simile or hyperbole :
My family is…
My high school is…
Football (or fill in a sport) is….

15. Bellringer: Simile & Hyperbole 8/26
Complete the following sentences to create comparisons that use BOTH simile and hyperbole :
My family is…
My high school is…
Reading is….