Vocab
Climb, move, or get in or out of something in an awkward and laborious way
An extravagant statement or the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
What is Hyperbole?
"I am so glad the 1st grade students remembered to clean up their art project before they went home!"
Who would most likely agree with this statement?
Who is a Janitor?
Wow! You would have thought you were in the middle of World War ll watching the soccer team battle.
What is historical?
Which poem did we paraphrase?
A person's first appearance or performance in a particular capacity or role
What is Debut?
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to
What is Onomatopoeia?
Dogs and cats make great pets. They're both soft, furry, and affectionate. Both can be trained. Cats are a lot quieter than dogs, but a dog's barking is often valued for protecting.
How are cats and dogs different according to the paragraph?
Her curls were giving off medusa vibes.
What is Methodology?
What two poets did we talk about?
Who is Edgar Allan Poe and Shakespeare?
Overwhelm someone with things or people to be dealt with
What is Inundate?
A play on words that exploits multiple meanings of a word or similar sounding words.
What is Pun?
Infer means to look for _______ in the story and use your knowledge.
What is clues?
You would have thought we needed Noah's Ark to leave school looking at the thunderstorm that rolled in!
What is Biblical?
Underlying message that the writer or artist wants to convey the meaning of
Ex: love, hate, human vs nature, respect
What is theme?
A person who is passionate about a particular cause, typically inciting change and taking radical action
What is Firebrand?
A language that is vividly descriptive and stimulates the five senses.
What is Imagery?
Sam woke up and saw the sun shining in the sky. He packed his swim suit, a towel, a ball, amd sandales. He made a sack lunch since he will be out there all day.
Where is Sam going?
She was living two lives like Hannah Montana when her boyfriend found out she had 3 different boys.
What is Pop Culture?
Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm
What is poetry?
Failing to achieve the desired results; unproductive or useless
What is Fruitless?
Occurs when opposite or contradictory terms appear together.
Dolphins are very smart answers. They even have their own language. They talk to each other with clicks, whistles, and grunts. Scientists have been studying this dolphin language.
What is this paragraph mainly about?
How smart is a dolphin?
We watched the boy flirt like Romeo trying to flirt with 2 girls at once.
What is Art culture?
Expressing the meaning of the writer/speaker using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.
What is paraphrasing?