2. Metaphor
Compares two unlike things
Does not use LIKE or AS

3. Simile
A form of comparison in which one thing is compared to another unlike thing by using specific words of comparison like LIKE, AS, and RESEMBLES.

4. Find the Metaphor and/or Similes
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5. Personification
Speaking of something that is not human as if it had human abilities and human reactions.
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6. Onomatopoeia A word that sounds like the thing it is referring to….
“Six burgers were SIZZLING on the grill!”

8. Onomatopoeia

9. Onomatopoeia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqSP-YtGWI0

10. Pick Out The PERSONIFICATION or ONOMATOPOEIA in the sentences…
The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.
The video camera observed the whole scene.
The breaks squeaked as the car came to a stop.
The car engine coughed and sputtered when it started during the blizzard.
The boy moved his chair, squeak!
The dishes clattered as they fell on the floor.
The wind sang her mournful song through the falling leaves.

11. ASSIGNMENT TIME
Choose one of the Garfield comics and create the dialogue and sound for it!
You will need to include both personification and onomatopoeia within it!
HAVE FUN

15. Hyperbole An exaggeration used to emphasize a point.
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia
Stout Would Not Take
The Garbage Out

16. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would
Not Take The Garbage Out Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! She’d scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the hams, And though her daddy would scream and shout, She simply would not take the garbage out. And so it piled up to the ceilings: Coffee grounds, potato peelings, Brown bananas, rotten peas, Chunks of sour cottage cheese. It filled the can, it covered the floor, It cracked the window, it blocked the door With bacon rinds and chicken bones, Drippy ends of ice cream cones, Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel, Gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal, Pizza crests and withered greens, Soggy beans and tangerines, Crusts of black burned buttered toast, Gristly bits of beefy roasts The garbage rolled down the hall, It raised the roof, it broke the wall. . . Greasy napkins, cookie crumbs, Globs of gooey bubble gum, Cellophane from green baloney, Rubbery blubbery macaroni, Peanut butter, caked and dry, Curdled milk and crusts of pie, Moldy melons, dried up mustard, Eggshells mixed with lemon custard, Cold french fries and rancid meat, Yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat. At last the garbage reached so high That finally it touched the sky. And all the neighbors moved away, And none of her friends would come out to play. And finally Sarah Cynthia Stout said, “OK, I’ll take the garbage out!” But then, of course, it was too late. . . The garbage reached across the state, From New York to the Golden Gate. And there, in the garbage she did hate, Poor Sarah met an awful fate, That I cannot right now relate Because the hour is much too late. But children, remember Sarah Stout And always take the garbage out!
~Shel Silverstein

18. Hyperbole Check out the video on Hyperbole…..
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19. Alliteration
The repetition of a single letter in the alphabet or a combination of letters.
Example –
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

20. Alliteration Introductions
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21. Hyperbole & Alliteration Scene Assignment
Get into groups of 4!
Move your seat so that you are now sitting with your group members.
One person from your group will draw a card that will tell you the setting of the skit you will create.
Within your groups, prepare a skit that you will perform in front of your classmates. Make sure to include both an hyperbole and alliteration within your skit.
You have 20 minutes to prepare and then you will present the skit to your classmates 

22. Imagery

23. Imagery "The child got mad at the teacher.” Does the sentence
paint a picture for
the reader?
Are there details
that would appeal
to the readers' senses?

24. The hot July sun beat relentlessly down, casting an orange glare over the farm buildings, the fields, the pond. Even the usually cool green willows bordering the pond hung wilted and dry. Our sun-baked backs ached for relief. We quickly pulled off our sweaty clothes and plunged into the pond, but the tepid water only stifled us and we soon climbed onto the brown, dusty bank. Our parched throats longed for something cool--a strawberry ice, a tall frosted glass of lemonade.
We pulled on our clothes, crackling underbrush, the sharp briars pulling at our damp jeans, until we reached the watermelon patch. As we began to cut open the nearest melon, we could smell the pungent skin mingling with the dusty odor of the dry earth. Suddenly, the melon gave way with a crack, revealing the deep, pink sweetness inside.
Sight Sound Touch Taste Smell

25. Imagery Check Sight, Smell, Touch, Taste, Sound
1. He was a shaggy, thick-fellow; his coat was greasy about the lapels and pockets, and his hand splayed over the cane’s crook with a futile sort of clinging.
2. A ginger cat, very tall and thin streaked glass, flashing with sunlight
3. Strong melodious songs crackling splinters of glass and dried putty
4. Soft shapes...inside the hard bodies
5. Juicy and tart
6. Rolling rumble and crash
7. Leaves were green and stirring. Berries, luster-glossed.
8. What is Poetry? Who knows? Not a rose, but the scent of a rose.

26. Check Your Answers
Sight
Touch
Taste
Sound
Smell

27. IDIOMS

28. Understanding IDIOMS is a “Piece of Cake”
Idioms are words, phrases, or expressions that cannot be taken literally, as in, “It's raining cats and dogs!”
Couch Potato

29. Idiom Assignment Select an Idiom from the list….
Create a poster of the literal meaning of your idiom….. (computer or drawn)
Include:
Title of the idiom
(It’s Raining Cats and Dogs)
What the idiom means
(It is raining very hard)
Sentence using the idiom
Your name

30. IT’S RAINING CATS & DOGS!
It is raining very hard!!!
IT’S RAINING CATS & DOGS!
When my mom came into the house she said it was raining like cats and dogs outside!
Mrs. Christopher

31. All ears Ants in your pants Arm and a leg At the end of your rope Axe to grind Back to the drawing board Barking up the wrong tree Between the lines Blood out of a stone Blow your stack Bone to pick Bull in a China shop By the skin of your teeth Can of worms Cold feet Crash a party Cry your eyes out Don’t wash your dirty laundry in public Down in the dumps Eagle eyes Elephant in the room Feeling Blue Fifth wheel Fish out of water Go round in circles Grab the bull by its horns Head is in the clouds Heart of gold Hook, line, and sinker Horse of a different color In the doghouse It cost an arm and a leg Jump the gun Like a fish needs a bicycle Make waves Money talks Opening a can of worms Out on a limb Piece of cake Pull someone's leg Pull your weight Rock the boat See the light Stick out like a sore thumb Tall story Thin-skinned Thrilled to bits Walk on eggshells Written all over your face You can say that again

32. ClichE
A cliché is an expression that has been used so often that it has become boring.
A cliché is not just something that lots of people say; It's something that lots of people say and it conveys some sort of idea or message. A cliché is, in other words, a metaphor characterized by its overuse.

34. ClichE
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35. ClichE
Turn to your partner and spend a few minutes coming up with a list of CLICHÉS that your friends use.
Example – That’s what she said.

36. ClichE 8th Grade Clichés Share one cliché that you came up with.
If another pair shares the same cliché pick another one.

37. Irony
A figure of speech of which the literal meaning of the word is the opposite of its intended meaning.

38. Irony Three Kinds of Irony –
Verbal Irony is when an author says one thing and means something else.
Dramatic Irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
Irony of Situation is a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results.

39. Irony
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40. "Ironic” An old man turned ninety-eight He won the lottery and died the next day It's a black fly in your Chardonnay It's a death row pardon two minutes too late And isn't it ironic... don't you think It's like rain on your wedding day It's a free ride when you've already paid It's the good advice that you just didn't take Who would've thought... it figures Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye He waited his whole damn life to take that flight And as the plane crashed down he thought "Well isn't this nice..." Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face A traffic jam when you're already late A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife It's meeting the man of my dreams And then meeting his beautiful wife And isn't it ironic...don't you think A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think... Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out Helping you out

41. IRONY EXAMPLES http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=247074

43. Irony Assignment Background Knowledge
Your assignment is to find irony within the Romeo and Juliet clips.
Background Knowledge
Capulet’s vs. Montague
Rich vs. Poor, City vs. Rural
Warring Business Empire
Arch-rivals
Gang fight prior to the scene where the Capulets and Montagues end up setting fire to a gas station.
The mayor of the city threatens that there will no longer be any kind of peace between the two if the fighting continues.
Romeo (which he is a Montague) gets a ticket from his cousin to attend the Capulet’s party.

44. Romeo & JULIET CLIP 1
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45. Romeo & JULIET CLIP 2
Ending -
(Skip a little into it.. Tells what kind of irony it is an example of).

48. Project Examples

49. Project Rubric

50. Project Rubric

51. Project Rubric

52. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE POSTERS

53. SIMILE
A comparison of two unrelated things using the connecting words like, as, than, or seems.

54. Words that imitate real sounds.
ONOMATOPOEIA
Words that imitate real sounds.

55. The repeating of the same beginning sound in a group of words.
ALLITERATION
The repeating of the same beginning sound in a group of words.

56. Giving human qualities or actions to something that is not human.
PERSONIFICATION
Giving human qualities or actions to something that is not human.

57. IDIOMS It’s raining cats and dogs!
A saying whose meaning can’t be understood from the individual words in it!
It’s raining
cats and dogs!

58. A deliberate exaggeration used to emphasize a point.
HYPERBOLE I
“I am #1!”
A deliberate exaggeration used to emphasize a point.

59. “He is acting like a couch potato!”
METAPHOR
“He is acting like a couch potato!”
A comparison of two different things that doesn’t use connecting words.