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ENG 1D1 Thursday February 5th, 2015
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It’s Thursday!
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The Period in a Nutshell
A Review of Haiku Haiku Snowball Fight For the Love of Poetry Figurative Language, Literary and Poetic Devices Similes and Extended Metaphors
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Haiku Examples What do these poems have in common?
An old silent pond… A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. -Basho Matsuo Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow. -Natsume Soseki
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WHAT IS POETRY? Poetry is an imaginative response to an experience reflecting a keen awareness of language. These elements are used to create this effect: Feeling and Emotion Meter and Rhythm Figurative Language
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YOU ARE MY LIFE!! A metaphor and hyperbole
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Simile vs Metaphor A simile is a comparison between two unlike items using ‘as’ or ‘like’ I am as hungry as a lion. A metaphor is a comparison made of two unlike things not using ‘as’ or ‘like’ I am a lion. Hungry lion
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Similes Simile: A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using like or as. Finish these common and often cliché sayings: Fit as a _____________. Straight as an ______________. Fresh as a ______________. Light as a ______________. Life is like a box of ___________________; you never know what you’re going to get.
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More Similes Pretty as a ______________. Blind as a ______________.
They fought like __________ and __________. Busy as a ______________. Clean as a ______________.
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Even More Simile I slept like a ______________.
Cute as a ______________. Slippery as an ______________. He sat there like a ______________ on a log. Smart as a ______________.
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Almost Done... Sly as a ______________. Tough as ______________.
Sweet as ______________. Free as a ______________. That moving was so boring it was like watching _____________ dry.
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Your Turn! Now try writing your own similes using like or as:
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