In class: vocabulary 3 cumulative assessment. I hope you looked at your study cards or list. A few people never turned turned in their vocabulary 3 exercises. If you were absent last Thursday when we they were handed out in class with the expectation that if you did not finish them, they were to be completed for homework, please turn them in now. For anyone else this is your last opportunity to turn in the vocabulary 3 exercises. moving on...........
In class: review of the figurative language that you were to have completed in class yesterday.
Test on this material on Friday.
Copy of yesterday's classwork. This was also on yesterday's blog.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE PRACTICE
Please read over the definitions for the following
figurative language devices; then identify the examples that follow.
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1. . A simile is a figure of speech where two
inherently different things are compared to one another using expressions like
'like' or 'as'
2. . A palindrome can be defined as a word or
a phrase, which begins and finishes with the same letter.
3. . metaphors are linguistic symbols that
convey a particular image. It is a figure of speech wherein an idea is given to
provide clarity by comparing or associating it to another totally different
idea.
4. . oxymoron is a figure of speech in which
two contradictory or inappropriate terms are either put together or appear side
by side.
5. .litotes is defined as 'an ironical
understatement in which affirmative is expressed by the negation of the
opposite'. In this figure of speech, the usages are intentional, ironical and
provide emphasis to the words. This is mainly done through double negatives. To
put it in simple terms, in litotes, instead of saying that something is
attractive, you say that it is not unattractive.
6. A synecdoche is a figure of speech where part of a sentence
describes the entirety.
7. imagery is vivid descriptions and comparisons with the
help of sound words, helps recreate images and emotions. This device which
needs to be aided with other figures of speech like similes, metaphors and personification etc. to effectively crop a picture within the minds eyes.
Always remember, the key to good imagery is evoking all the senses. There are
seven different kinds of imagery; visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile,
organic, olfactory and gustatory
8. . An allusion is a brief reference,
explicit or indirect to a person, place or event or to another literary work or
passage.
9. . apostrophes are words spoken to a person
or object which is inherently imaginary object or is an abstract idea.
1 personification
is when we associate a human quality or
trait with a non-living object.
1. In
capitalism, money is the life blood of society and charity is the soul.
2. The wind
whispered the rumors of the forest.
3. Zip up
your pants.
4. Racecar
5. The
promise between us was a delicate flower.
6. "Is
this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me
clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still."
7. He
pleaded for her forgiveness but Janet’s heart was cold iron.
8. Heat
waves are not rare in the summer.
9. I should
have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas
10. Borrow or
rob?
11. Toby
manipulated the people in his life as though they were chess pieces.
12. "She
was breathtakingly beautiful, but he knew that she was forbidden fruit."
13. Cassie talked
to her son about girls as though she were giving him tax advice.
14. Their
prayers were like mayflies in June.
15. No lemon,
no melon
16. With the
click of a mouse I can open another window on my computer.
17. Fully
empty
18. "Roll
on thou dark and deep Blue Ocean." - from "Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage" by Lord Byron
19. The birds
like to tweet outside my window.
20. The people
who still lived in the town were stuck in place like wax statues.
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