Personification

Poetry

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Watch for Mood?   

Fast Break

In Memory of Dennis Turner, 1946-1984

EDWARD HIRSCH

A hook shot kisses the rim and                 Do you see personification?
hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop,

and for once our gangly starting center
boxes out his man and times his jump

perfectly, gathering the orange leather
from the air like a cherished possession

and spinning around to throw a strike
to the outlet who is already shoveling           How about a great verb?

an underhand pass toward the other guard
scissoring past a flat-footed defender            How about another great verb?

who looks stunned and nailed to the floor     Hyperbole?!
in the wrong direction, trying to catch sight

of a high, gliding dribble and a man
letting the play develop in front of him

in slow motion, almost exactly
like a coach's drawing on the blackboard,

both forwards racing down the court
the way that forwards should, fanning out

and filling the lanes in tandem, moving
together as brothers passing the ball

between them without a dribble, without
a single bounce hitting the hardwood

until the guard finally lunges out
and commits to the wrong man

while the power-forward explodes past them
in a fury, taking the ball into the air

by himself now and laying it gently
against the glass for a lay-up,

but losing his balance in the process,
inexplicably falling, hitting the floor

with a wild, headlong motion
for the game he loved like a country

and swiveling back to see an orange blur
floating perfectly through the net.

found on http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/109.html

Author's purpose?  

Mood?   

Hyperbole

A hyperbole is an exaggeration.

The word hyperbole comes from --

 about1520; < Greek hyperbolḗ excess, exaggeration,throwing beyond, 

equivalent to hyper- hyper- + bolḗ   throw

An example of using the word hyperbole from the news in October of 2016:
http://www.businessinsider.com/weather-channel-warning-evacuate-hurricane-matthew-2016-10

Onomatopoeia

Figurative Language

Figurative Language 

Figurative Language for Blog.ppt   

• simile:  The rumors spread like wildfire
• “My legs ached and my neck was stiff. But with each defeated kite, hope grew in my heart, like snow collecting on a wall, one flake at a time.”(Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, page 64)

• metaphor:  That test was a piece of cake. 
• Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.” (Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, page 30)
• "I dive into the stream of fourth-period lunch students and swim down the hall to the cafeteria." (Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, page 7.)

• idiom:   Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
• The way Jeri toots her own horn all the time is so irritating!  (Link to idioms: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/idiom-examples-of-idioms.html

• personification: The brown grass is hoping for rain.
• "Whoever invented these boots should be shot because once the boots got ahold of your shoes they wouldn't let them go for anything."(Christopher Paul Curtis-The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, p. 48)

• hyperbole:  I will die if he asks me to speak in front of the class.
• "I started throwing up a ton of water and food. If there was a forest fire somewhere all they would have to do is hold me over it and I would have put it out! I threw up and coughed and choked and vomited about a million times, and all this just because I'd breathed in some air!" 
  (Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, p. 178)

More examples:  

Some Figurative Language Collected from Literature

 

May 10/11, 2010

May 10/11, 2010

Book-of-the-Month projects are due next time.
Return all books checked out from the classroom by this Friday, May 14.

The teacher shared a passage from The Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu.
The teacher read Quick as a Cricket  by Audrey Wood (a picture book of similes) to the class.
In your composition book, list as many similes as you can.
Figurative Language  -- Lesson Power Point and Hall Walk

The PowerPoint taught the difference between literal and figurative, and taught seven techniques of figurative language:
onomotapoeia, metaphor, simile, alliteration, hyperbole, idiom, and personification


We looked at Figurative Language from the short stories we've read.
Students worked on writing a poem -- "I Know Three Skeleton Key"

Your poem has four stanzas -- Each begins --  "I Know Three Skeleton Key"


"I Know Three Skeleton Key"
Briefly and powerfully describe four things you see.

"I Know Three Skeleton Key"
Briefly and powerfully describe four things you hear.


"I Know Three Skeleton Key"
Briefly and powerfully describe four things you smell.


"I Know Three Skeleton Key"
Briefly and powerfully describe four things you feel.


[B2 needs to share their poems. ]
[A1 needs to do the gallery walk.]
[A4 needs to finish the gallery walk.]

May 6/7, 2010

May 6/7, 2010
 

Self-Starter for “Three Skeleton Key” by George C. Toudouze

Step 1.  Look at the title and illustration on page 65.

Step 2.  Silently read page 64.

Step 3.  Do the quickwrite on page 64.   Write it in your composition book.

Step 4.  Exercise for subject-verb agreement:  Copy the following sentences into your composition book,  and then make needed corrections:  (Do not change verb tense.)

1)  There is also magical creatures.

2) The characters was another thing I liked. 

3)  Each of the characters are completely different.  

4) They decides to go to the new candy store that just opened down the street form there school.

Note:  B1, A1, A4 still need to do similes from "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi."] 
A1 did not do figurative language yet.  B1, A1 did not start "I Know Three Skeleton Key."

   

Step 5a.  In your  composition book, write this heading:

Figurative Language in “Three Skeleton Key.”

 When you find a metaphor, simile, or other figurative language in the story, write it down, as well as the page number and column where you found it.
Step 5b.  Watch for the parts of the plot. 

See the plot line we created for Three Skeleton Key here:

Three Skeleton Key Plot

Still to do:

• master the irregular verb "lie/lay"
• recognize the subject and verb in a sentence (and other parts of speech)  [paper plates?]
• What's it about? (subject)
• What's happening? (verb)
• master subject/verb agreement
• practice recognizing and understanding  elements of literature in short stories 
• understanding literal language vs. figurative language
• reading and writing sensory language
• writing: responding to reading 
• writing complete sentences with varied beginnings
• preparing a summer reading list

Simile and Metaphor from Words By Heart

Simile and Metaphor from Words By Heart -- Extra Credit

At the beginning of Words By Heart, we see some powerful figurative language. For instance, on page 4, Lena is described with these words: ". . . she was different and comical-looking, oozing like dark dough over the edges of her last-year's Sunday dress."
On page 7, Lena's papa is sitting with "His hands perched excitedly on his knees like spiders about to jump."

You may earn extra credit by pointing out other instances of figurative language: simile, metaphor, or personification in this novel.