Announcements and Reminders:
All late, revised, and extra credit work was due on Friday, May 20!
If you have an F, see me. Bring treats on the 24/25! You may take home your composition book today. You may hand in your hall passes today or next time.
Today please turn in all books checked out from our classroom.
By May 18/19 – for English class
Bring a photo of yourself DOING SOMETHING.
In class you will create a poster about that photo including
(Change your assignment to ONE each of the following:)
-1 simile
-1 metaphor
-1 hyperbole
-1 personification
-1 onomotopia
-1 allusion
extra credit for alliteration (at least three repetitions of the sound) |
Targets for Today:
I can recognize and write figurative language.
I can read and comprehend historical fiction.
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Today’s Agenda:
We will read from A Long Walk to Water, and view more slideshows.
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If You Were Absent:
See above.
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Poised between going on and back, pulled
Both ways taut like a tight-rope walker,Now bouncing tiptoe like a dropped ball,
Or a kid skipping rope, come on, come on!…Taunts them, hovers like an ecstatic bird,
He’s only flirting, crowd him, crowd him,
(The Base Stealer by Robert Francis)
Metaphor:
- The assignment was a breeze. (This implies that the assignment was not difficult.)
- Her voice is music to his ears. (This implies that her voice makes him feel happy)
Personification:
- The wind whispered through dry grass.
- The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
- Time and tide waits for none.
- The fire swallowed the entire forest.
Onomatopoeia:
- The buzzing bee flew away.
- The sack fell into the river with a splash.
- The books fell on the table with a loud thump.
- He looked at the roaring sky.
- The rustling leaves kept me awake.
Hyperbole:
- My grandmother is as old as the hills.
- Your suitcase weighs a ton!
- She is as heavy as an elephant!
- I am dying of shame.
- I am trying to solve a million issues these days.
Allusion:
- “Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.” – “Romeo” is a reference to Shakespeare’s Romeo, a passionate lover of Juliet, in “Romeo and Juliet”.
- The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora’s box of crimes. – This is an allusion to one of Greek Mythology’s origin myth, “Pandora’s box”.
- “This place is like a Garden of Eden.” – This is a biblical allusion to the “garden of God” in the Book of Genesis.
Alliteration:
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”
