Homework is due today. Place it in the tray on the front table according to your class period.

1. Homework is due today. Place it in the tray on the front table according to your class period. You need your independent reading novel. We are going to read for 10 min today. Go to your lesson section (last section) and copy this chart onto your next blank page.

2. Figurative Language: - - -

3. What do these phrases mean to you? blistering sun piercing rain

4. Figure of Speech A figure of speech is a specific device or kind of figurative language, such as hyperbole, metaphor, personification, or simile. Figurative language • used for descriptive effect. • It is not meant to be taken literally. • used to state ideas in vivid and imaginative ways

5. Imagery Imagery- words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses. Writers use imagery to draw the reader into a scene, to create a picture in the reader's mind, or to remind the reader of something familiar.

6. Imagery A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. He doesn’t say “many” or “a lot of” daffodils, he uses the word “host.” That means a huge number of daffodils. He describes the surrounding area. Can you picture this?

7. Personification Personification is a figure of speech in which a non-human object is given human qualities or characteristics. Example: Tears began to fall from the dark clouds.

9. Simile A simile is a figure of speech that compares unlike things using the words like or as. Example: Her voice was like nails on a chalkboard.

10. Metaphor A metaphor is a type of speech that compares two things without using like or as. Example: The clouds are cotton balls in the sky.

11. Hyperbole Hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration for the sake of emphasis or humor. Example: It is going to take me a million years to do all this homework!

13. Figurative Language That purse is as big as a suitcase. The purse is a suitcase. The purse is so big you could fit a car in it. That purse is calling my name.

15. Figurative Language • Glue the hamburger in the middle of your page. • Label and create examples of a simile, a metaphor , personification and a hyperbole for this picture.

16. Figurative Language Simile The cheese on my burger is as stringy as old nail polish. Personification The burger sobbed tears of grease down my chin. Metaphor The stale pretzel bun was a rock against my teeth. Hyperbole The burger is six stories tall!

17. Copy into Lesson Section Reading Day As you read, find two examples in your novel of figurative language. Copy the example and explain what the author was really trying to say.

18. Copy into Lesson Section Reading Day As you read, find two examples in your novel of figurative language. Copy the example and explain what the author was really trying to say. Simile Pers. “The girl has freckles and full lips like a movie star.” (p.17) “I feel my eyebrows creep up my face.” (p.27) The girl’s lips are plump and she is really pretty. He raises his eyebrows when he hears the news.

19. Poems • Find, • Underline/Highlight • Label • Simile • Metaphor • Personification • Hyperbole • Imagery

21. Wednesday 9-25-13 9/24/13 Figurative Language Examples in Literature Type Example Meaning Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Imagery

22. Title of Poem and Author Fig FigFigurative Language and Meaning (2) Fold your paper in half. Fold it in half again. Now unfold it. You should have four squares. Symbolic Illustration (colored example to go with the poem) Paraphrase the Poem (in your own words, summarize the poem)

23. Friday, 9-27-13 • You need • Your journal • Book to read after Quiz • Quiz Directions • You can use your journal to refer to notes, lessons, and examples. • When you Finish • Complete any work in your journal for a better grade. • Read!