Thursday, February 5, 2015

Notes for today: Copy into your notes--they will be on the quiz on Monday!

metaphor--comparison made between two unlike objects
simile--comparison made between two unlike objects, using "like" or "as"
personification--giving human qualities or characteristics to non-human objects
imagery--using words to create pictures for the 5 senses
hyperbole--truth is exaggerated for humor, emphasis, to make a point

These are on the bottom of side 2 of your worksheet:

Figurative Language: Use the notes on the overhead to answer the following questions
1. “A wind of calmness and reassurance blew through our houses.” (4)
Figurative language:_________________________________
Analysis: _________________________________________________________________________________
2. “…an old man with a gray beard and the eyes of a dreamer.” (12)
Figurative language: ___________________________
Analysis: _________________________________________________________________________________
3. In everyone’s eyes was suffering drowned in tears.” (14)
Figurative language: ___________________________
Analysis: _________________________________________________________________________________
4. “Everywhere rooms lay open…An open tomb.” (15)
Figurative language: ___________________________
Analysis: _________________________________________________________________________________
5. “They were the first of the faces of hell and death.” (17).
Figurative language: ___________________________
Analysis: _________________________________________________________________________________
6. “Our terror was about to burst the sides of the train.” (23)
Figurative language: ___________________________
Analysis: _________________________________________________________________________________
7. “Morning passed like a small summer cloud, like a dream in the first daylight house.” (16)
Figurative language: ___________________________

Analysis: _________________________________________________________________________________

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