VOCABULARY

• Periods 1 & 4: Synonyms and antonyms pages 114-115

• Period 4: We will use technology today. If you need a computer please get one from the cart. Be sure you have completed your Act DN as I will collect this at the start of class.

• Period 2: Unit 5 Completing the Sentence 11- 20

ACT 3: Puns, Simile, and Metaphor

• PUN: play on words: a humorous use of words that involves a word or phrase that has more than one possible meaning

• William Shakespeare is estimated to have used over 3,000 puns in his plays.

Simile and Metaphor

• A simile makes a comparison between two unlike items using like or as

Example: It seems she hangs upon the check of night/ like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear (Act II Scene ii)

• A metaphor makes a comparison between two unlike items without using like or as

Example: "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun." (Act II Scene II)