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Communication Arts January 10 & 11, 2013

Bell Ringer

In your newly purchased notebook I need you to write Today’s date The answer to the following question:

What will you need to be looking for in your new SSR books in order complete your new Reading Analysis Logs?

Objectives

By the end of class today, I will be able to: Define and analyze unknown vocabulary words.

Identify synonyms and antonyms of vocabulary words.

Recall the purpose and types of figurative language

Compare/contrast similes and metaphors

Analyze poetry/songs that uses metaphor, simile, and personification.

Writing Workshop

Figurative Language

Featured prominently throughout literature.

Metaphor

Comparing two unlike things (things that you would not usually associate) WITHOUT using the words “like” or “as.” Example:

Her home was a prison. “The world’s a stage and all the

men and women merely players.” William Shakespeare.

Simile

Comparing two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.” Examples:

They fought like cats and dogs. Busy as a bee. Blind as a bat.

Simile and Metaphor

The metaphor is first cousin to the simile. Like the simile, it compares two objects but does not use like or as.

Simile: Her cheeks are like polished apples.

Metaphor: Her cheeks are polished apples.

Simile or Metaphor 1. The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans

on the grocery store shelves. 2. As the teacher entered the room she muttered under

her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus!" 3. The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack. 4. The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after

a long day. 5. I feel like a limp dishrag. 6. Those girls are like two peas in a pod. 7. The fluorescent light was the sun during our test.

Similes and Metaphors

Write in your notebooks all of the metaphors/similes you read in the following poem. Dreams Deferred

“Fireworks”

Personification

Is giving human traits (feelings, qualities, actions or characteristics) to non-human/living objects.

Example: The clocked mocked me. The flowers danced in the breeze.

Personification Examples

Justice is blind and, at times, deaf. The world does not care to hear your

sad stories.. The sorry engine wheezed its death

cough. The buses can be impatient around

here.

Personification Cont’d The Sky Is Low

By Emily Dickinson

The sky is low, the clouds are mean,

A traveling flake of snow

Across a barn or through a rut

Debates if it will go.

A narrow wind complains all day

How some one treated him;

Nature, like us, is sometimes caught

Without her diadem.

Simile, Metaphor, Personification

In your notebook make the following chart. You will need to write a simile, metaphor, and personification for each item listed.

Item Simile Metaphor Personification

Car

Fish

Tree (trees, tree limb, tree roots, etc.)

Reading Workshop

Read 10 -15 min. This semester we will be doing a lot of work with vocabulary.

It will become imperative to the rest of your high school career (and beyond) that you are able to identify and analyze the meaning of words. So let’s begin now.

You will be creating Frayer models for each of the vocab words. You will be keeping these in your notebooks.

Today’s words: 1. Enigma, 2. Congruous, 3. Appendage, 4. Hyperventilate