Bell work

What do you know about figurative language?

Provide an example using what you know

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Tools for Grade “A”

writingMs. Alter

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

Types of figurative language

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Alliteration

Assonance

Consonance

Repetition

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Imagery

Idioms

Simile

S A direct comparison between two things that use “like” or

“as”

Ex.) She is as happy as a clam.

Metaphor

S A comparison between similar things without using “like”

or “as”

Ex.) The road was a ribbon wrapped through the desert.

Personification

S To give human characteristics to something that is not

human

Ex.) The flowers danced through the wind.

Alliteration

S Repetition of the first consonant sound at the beginning

of words

Ex.) Peter Piper Picked a Pickled Pepper.

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.

Consonance

S When consonants repeat in the middle or end of words

Ex.) Mammals named Sam are clammy.

Repetition

S Repeating a word or words for effect

Ex.) Nobody no, Nobody can make it out here alone.

Onomatopoeia

S Words that imitate sounds

Ex.) Boom, Bang, Beep, Buzz

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.

Imagery

S Language that appeals to the senses.

Ex.) Sight, Hearing, Touch, Taste, Smell

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”

Characterization

S The way writers develop characters in a

story

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

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

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

Types of Characterization

Dynamic

S changes during the

course of the story

Static

S character does not

change during the story

EXIT TICKET

S Given the types of figurative language tools

discussed today write a sentence that exemplifies at

least two forms.