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Bell work
What do you know about figurative language?
Provide an example using what you know
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S
Tools for Grade “A”
writingMs. Alter
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Figurative Language
S Describing something by comparing it with
something else
S Should delay a meaning towards a subject
S Helps readers visualize what a writer is
thinking
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Types of figurative language
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Imagery
Idioms
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Simile
S A direct comparison between two things that use “like” or
“as”
Ex.) She is as happy as a clam.
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Metaphor
S A comparison between similar things without using “like”
or “as”
Ex.) The road was a ribbon wrapped through the desert.
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Personification
S To give human characteristics to something that is not
human
Ex.) The flowers danced through the wind.
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Alliteration
S Repetition of the first consonant sound at the beginning
of words
Ex.) Peter Piper Picked a Pickled Pepper.
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Assonance
S The repetition of internal vowel sounds
S Doesn’t have to rhyme
Ex.) The pain may drain Drake, but maybe the weight is
fake.
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Consonance
S When consonants repeat in the middle or end of words
Ex.) Mammals named Sam are clammy.
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Repetition
S Repeating a word or words for effect
Ex.) Nobody no, Nobody can make it out here alone.
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Onomatopoeia
S Words that imitate sounds
Ex.) Boom, Bang, Beep, Buzz
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Hyperbole
S An exaggerated statements used to heighten effect.
S Is not used to mislead the reader, but emphasize a point
Ex.) She’s said so on several million occasions.
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Imagery
S Language that appeals to the senses.
Ex.) Sight, Hearing, Touch, Taste, Smell
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Idioms
S Refers to a construction of words or expression different
from the ordinary meaning of the words
S Cannot be literally translated into another language word for
word
Ex.) “She has a bee in her bonnet” meaning “she is
obsessed”
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Characterization
S The way writers develop characters in a
story
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Types of Characterization
Direct
S When the writer directly
tells the reader what a
character is like
S Example:
S Dracula is evil
Indirect
S When the writer gives
the reader clues about
the character by
describing how the
character acts and
thinks
S Reader decides how to
view character
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Types of characters
S Protagonists: the main character
S Antagonists: who the protagonists struggles against “the
bad guy”
S Subordinate: do not play major roles in a story
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Types of Characterization
Round
S well developed
character, author tells
reader a lot about
Flat
S not developed, readers
know very little to
anything about
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Types of Characterization
Dynamic
S changes during the
course of the story
Static
S character does not
change during the story
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EXIT TICKET
S Given the types of figurative language tools
discussed today write a sentence that exemplifies at
least two forms.