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Warm Up 10-6-2014 (WtK)

Warm Up 10-6-2014 (WtK). Simile : Comparing two different things using the words like or as. Ex: She is as quick as a fox . Metaphor : Comparing two different things without using the words like or as. Ex: She is a fox .

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Warm Up 10-6-2014 (WtK)

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  1. Warm Up 10-6-2014 (WtK) • Simile: Comparing two different things using the words like or as. Ex: She is as quick as a fox. • Metaphor: Comparing two different things without using the words like or as. Ex: She is a fox. • Onomatopoeia:a type of word that sounds like the thing it’s describing • Alliteration: occurs when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound. For example, “She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore” or “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers” are both alliterative phrases • Assonance: (also called vowel rhyme) is rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in “We see three bees.”

  2. Warm Up 10-7-2014 • Does the subject agree with the verb? San Francisco, my favorite of all cities, have many beautiful bridges. • Peyton spent four days wandering around the woods trying to find his way back to the campsite. Did he loose or lose his way? • Eliminate excess words. The hikers they totally and completely panicked at the site of the bear they just saw along the trail. 4. What is the rhyme scheme in the following poem? I’ve got a new replacement part Besides my kidney, lung, and heart. This set of teeth was almost free. (I paid ten thousand for the knee.) It’s hard to tell if I’m even me! 5. Write the possessive phrase to show a. The clues of one puzzle b. The clues of two puzzles

  3. Warm Up 10-8-2014 • Correct the following sentence: Paula was so proud of her newest invenshun a glow in the dark plunjer

  4. Warm Up 10-9-2014 • Which line of the poem is the best example of alliteration? • What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? • Name two other literary elements exemplified in the poem.

  5. Warm Up 10-10-2014 What would you consider to be your biggest misstake mistake in life so far? Write ½ page about it, using correct paragraph format (topic sentence, supporting details, closing sentence)

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