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Comparing 2 things using like or asEx: Fred’s eyes are as blue as the sky on a cloudless winter morning.
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Comparing 2 things using like or asEx: Fred’s eyes are like the sky on a cloudless winter morning.
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A direct comparison of two unlike thingsEx: That wave is a monster.
Fred’s eyes are an early morning sky.
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Create your own:
A pencil is a(n)…
Simile
Metaphor
A dog is like/as…
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The repetition of CONSONANT sounds in words that are close together.
Ex: “…all summer in the sound of the sea”
--Walt Whitman
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The repetition of VOWEL sounds in words that are close together.Ex: Try to light the fire.
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Write a sentence for this picture using either alliteration or assonance (or both!):
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Giving human qualities to non-human thingsEx: The darkness reached out to the campers.
Fred’s goldfish begged for more friends.
The day awoke in a splash of color.
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Write a sentence using personification.
The wind blew against the trunks, trying to hurl them into the raging, black waters of the Pacific.
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Words that sound like what they are
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An extreme exaggerationEx: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
My backpack weighs a ton.Your teacher is so dumb, she
took a ruler to bed to see how long she slept.
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An object that stands for an idea.
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A reference, within a literary work, to something else such as: another work of fiction, a famous character a movie, a song, or an historic event.
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• "The girl's love of sweets was her Achilles heel," referencing the warrior in Greek mythology, Achilles, who could only be harmed if something hit his heel
• "I am afraid of spiders, but I'm no Cowardly Lion!“ allusion to The Wizard of Oz
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IMAGERYLanguage that appeals to the senses.
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(How to write well and keep your readers
interested)
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Use vivid verbsscampered, bolted, whispered, clutched
“Taboo” Verbs(use them sparingly!!)
is are beingwas were beenam be
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She was walking to the store.
She walked to the store.
She hurried to the store.She strolled to the store.
She tottered to the store.
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Use specific nounsdog…..terrierstudent…eighth graderbuilding…monument
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Telling sentence: It was very dark outside.
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Elizabeth, Ali, and Carol spent last Friday night over Amy’s house. At midnight they decided to grab some flashlights and play tag. Ali opened the front door. It creaked ominously. The four girls huddled together and peered past the safety of the entrance.
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A collective shudder ran through the group. It was as if the house balanced upon a bottomless pit. Carol whispered, “Flashlights.” Four laser-like beams entered the blackness. Useless. The light barely pierced the doorway before it was eaten and swallowed by the night. Wordlessly, each girl switched off her flashlight and stepped slowly away from the door.
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Now you will create a very short story.
Choose a picture as inspiration.
Your story must be an example of
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