1. English I Week 9 Wednesday

2. TEKS

3. Bellringer  Suspended for the remainder of the week.

4. Yesterday  We reviewed how to write and edit well.  Any questions?

5. Go Figure—Figurative Language  Paradox: a statement that apparently contradicts itself and yet might be true.  Simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using like or as.  Metaphor: a resemblance of two different objects is made based on common characteristics.  Onomatopoeia: words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.  Personification: portrays non-human objects in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings.  Flashback: a scene set in a time earlier than the main story.  Foreshadowing: a literary device by which an author hints what is to come.

6. “Hark, hark! Bow-wow. The watch-dogs bark! Bow-wow. Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry, ‘cock-a-diddle-dow!'” (Ariel in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act One, scene 2)

7. Onomatopoeia

8. A free ride when you’ve already paid.

9. Irony

10. My brother was boiling mad.

11. Metaphor

12. You’re as charming as an eel.

13. Simile

14. Scary

15. Simile

16. Her eyes are diamonds.

17. Metaphor

18. Do you believe this statement: I’m a compulsive liar.

19. Paradox

21. Irony

22. After talking to friends about certain fads in the past, Andrew remembered about a time he was in high school and dressed a certain way to impress a girl he liked.

23. Flashback

24. Good advice you just didn’t take.

25. Irony

26. The test was a breeze.

27. Metaphor

28. A character sees swaying birch trees and says, “So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.” He goes back to the days of his childhood, and then returns to the present and says, “I’d like to get away from earth awhile, and then come back to it and begin over.”

29. Flashback

30. Buzz

31. Onomatopoeia

32. The avalanche devoured anything standing in its way.

33. Personification

34. After the teacher took attendance, Sandra was shocked when she saw that James was back in class. Sandra thought about what happened last week at school when James was involved in several fights with other students.

35. Flashback

37. Paradox

38. “He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.” (For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway)

39. Onomatopoeia

40. The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

41. Personification

43. Foreshadowing

44. Life is like a box of chocolates.

45. Simile

46. The wind howled in the night.

47. Personification

48. Be cruel to be kind.

49. Paradox

51. Foreshadowing