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Tuesday,September 3, 2013 Write in your agenda: Pronouns Figurative Language.
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Tuesday,September 3, 2013
• Write in your agenda:
• Pronouns
• Figurative Language
Pronouns
• Pronouns are useful words because they can “stand in” for nouns. They prevent people from having to use the same noun over and over again in a sentence.
• Example: Mrs. Connelly is my teacher. She teaches English/Language Arts.
• Let’s look at the pronoun handout. After we go over the handout, it will go in our binder behind our first tab.
• We are going to use our handout to complete page 22 as a class. (class 1-10) (11-15 independently)
Figurative Language Vocabulary
• Blue Handout
• Cut all the way around the large rectangle on the outside line.
• Cut up the center line so you have two strips.
• Cut each line between the vocabulary boxes stopping at the first vertical line.
• Tape each strip along the outside edge on page 7.
• Watch as I demonstrate!
Figurative Language Vocabulary
• After class discussion students will lift each flap and write his or her own example of each vocabulary word.
figurative language
figurative language
Figurative language is the use of words that go beyond their ordinary
meanings. Figurative language requires you to use your imagination to figure out the author's meaning.
The water’s reflection was like the sun on glass.
The water’s reflection was like the sun on glass.
SIMILE-A figure of speech comparing two different things using the words
“like” or “as.”
SIMILE-A figure of speech comparing two different things using the words
“like” or “as.”
After the football game, the boy was so sore he walkedlike a toy soldier.
METAPHOR-A figure of speech comparing two different things without using the words “like”
or “as.”
METAPHOR-A figure of speech comparing two different things without using the words “like”
or “as.”
Stars are buttons off the angels’ gowns.
Onomatopoeia-a word or words that imitate a sound
Onomatopoeia-a word or words that imitate a sound
The click, click, click of the computer keys gave Mrs. Jones a headache.
Personification-giving human characteristics to things that are
not human
Personification-giving human characteristics to things that are
not human
The moonlight walked across the
water.
HYPERBOLE-figurative language where
exaggeration is used for emphasis
HYPERBOLE-figurative language where
exaggeration is used for emphasis
Our teacher is so old she probably taught cavemen how to make a wheel.
Our teacher is so old she probably taught cavemen how to make a wheel.
Alliteration-figurative language using the
repetition of consonant sounds
ONOMATOPOEIA
What type of figurative language is the following
sentence?
Helga hangs handkerchiefs on the line.
ALLITERATION
What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
The boy could swim like a fish.
SIMILE
What type of figurative language is used in the following
sentence?
John is a mountainon the field.
What type of figurative language is used in the
following sentence?
What type of figurative language is used in the
following sentence?
Jimmy is so skinny, a skeleton looks
fatter than he does!
HYPERBOLEHYPERBOLE
What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
The trees danced by the shore.
Figurative Language
• Watch youtube video
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyL7hEKZJo0
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_QVhoLl_9U