1. Announcements 50 pages of your book need to be read by TUESDAY FEB 12!
In class book report activity will take place on this day. 

2. What is the purpose of figurative language?
To help the reader visualize with any of the 5 senses.
To help readers relate to the experiences of the poem or story.
To emphasize a point to the reader.

3. Copy these notes on the following slides on a piece of notebook paper…they will come In handy I promise!

4. Idiom
-a word or phrase which means something opposite from its literal meaning
Example:
“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

5. Hyperbole -Extreme exaggeration used to make a point Example:
My brother and I ate enough food that evening to feed an entire village.

6. Onomatopoeia Chirp chirp chirp! Bang! Meow Woof! Thwip Pow Swish
Words that mimic sounds
Chirp chirp chirp!
Bang!
Meow
Woof!
Thwip
Pow
Swish

7. Imagery Cherry red lips Face is white as snow (simile as well)
Words that appeal to the five senses!
Cherry red lips
Face is white as snow (simile as well)

8. Allusion
a reference to a well-known person or story outside of the current story.