Language Skills Practice: Verb Agreement, Figurative Language

1. Do Now 1. Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject and state the rule as to why you chose the particular verb.. The dog or the cats (is, are) outside. 2. Read the excerpt below and answer the following question: All functions of your body not needed for the struggle about to commence are shut down. Digestion stops, sexual function stops, even your immune system is temporarily turned off. If necessary, excess waste is eliminated to make you light on your feet. Which answer choice means the same as commence as it is used in this sentence from the fourth paragraph of the passage? A) begin B) disappear C) flight D) stop

2. Do Now: Pop Quiz 1. What is imperialism? 2. What are the five reasons imperialists chose Africa to colonize? 3. How did Social Darwinism play into imperialism? 4. What type of imperialism does America practice? Through what methods? 5. Define meticulous. • 7 minutes- 30 points (0 if talking)

3. WoTD: implore • to make a very serious or emotional request to someone (part of speech?)

4. Stop and Jot • Did you see the bear? • Why do you think so many people did not see the bear? • How might this video relate to reading a text?

5. Figurative Language “Figuring it Out”

6. Figurative and Literal Language Literally:words function exactly as defined The car is blue. He caught the football. Figuratively: figure out what it means I’ve got your back. You’re a doll. ^Figures of Speech

7. Simile Comparison of two things using “like” or “as.” Examples The metal twisted like a ribbon. She is as sweet as candy.

8. Important! Using “like” or “as” doesn’t make a simile. A comparison must be made. Not a Simile:I like pizza. Simile:The moon is like a pizza.

9. Metaphor Two things are compared without using “like” or “as.” Examples All the world is a stage. Men are dogs. Her heart is stone.

10. Personification Giving human traits to objects or ideas. Examples The sunlight danced. Water on the lake shivers. The streets are calling me.

11. Hyperbole Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect. Examples I will love you forever. My house is a million miles away. She’d kill me.

12. Understatement Expression with less strength than expected. The opposite of hyperbole. I’ll be there in one second. This won’t hurt a bit.

13. Onomatopoeia • A word that “makes” a sound • SPLAT • PING • SLAM • POP • POW

14. Alliteration • Alliteration occurs when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound. • “She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore” • “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers”

15. Idiom • A saying that isn’t meant to be taken literally. • Doesn’t “mean” what it says • Don’t be a stick in the mud! • You’re the apple of my eye. • I have an ace up my sleeve.

16. Pun • A form of “word play” in which words have a double meaning. • I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger and then it hit me. • I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put it down. • I was going to look for my missing watch, but I didn’t have the time.

17. Proverb • A figurative saying in which a bit of “wisdom” is given. • An apple a day keeps the doctor away • The early bird catches the worm

18. Oxymoron • When two words are put together that contradict each other. “Opposites” • Jumbo Shrimp • Pretty Ugly • Freezer Burn

19. Quiz On a separate sheet of paper… • I will put an example of figurative language on the board. • You will write whether it is an simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, pun, proverb, idiom, onomatopoeia, oxymoron or understatement. • You can use your notes.

20. 1 He drew a line as straight as an arrow.

21. 2 Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are kings and queens.

22. 3 Can I see you for a second?

23. 4 The sun was beating down on me.

24. 5 A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.

25. 6 I'd rather take bathswith a man-eating shark,or wrestle a lionalone in the dark,eat spinach and liver,pet ten porcupines,than tackle the homework,my teacher assigns.

26. 7 Ravenous and savagefrom its longpolar journey,the North Windis searchingfor food—

27. 8 Dinner is on the house.

28. 9 Can I have one of your chips?

29. 10 Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

30. 11. • The clouds smiled down at me.

31. 12. • SPLAT!

32. 13. • She is as sweet as candy

33. 14. • I could sleep forever!

34. 15. • He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends

35. 16. • I used to have a fear of hurdles, but I got over it

36. 17. • The wheat field was a sea of gold.

37. 18. • The streets called to him.

38. 19. • POP!

39. 20. • She was dressed to the nines.

40. 21. • The early bird catches the worm.

41. 22. • Old news

42. 23. • Your face is killing me!

43. 24. • She was as white as a ghost.

44. 25. • She has a skeleton in her closet.

45. 1 He drew a line as straight as an arrow. SIMILE

46. 2 Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are kings and queens. METAPHOR

47. 3 Can I see you for a second? UNDERSTATEMENT

48. 4 The sun was beating down on me. PERSONIFICATION

49. 5 A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky. SIMILE

50. 6 I'd rather take bathswith a man-eating shark,or wrestle a lionalone in the dark,eat spinach and liver,pet ten porcupines,than tackle the homework,my teacher assigns. HYPERBOLE