Author's Craft 1
Why did the author use an overstatement AND Italics in this sentence?
And he always gets the shower first, because a hundred billion years ago when I was still a baby Jacob took the first shower, and he can’t handle having his routine messed up.
What is to emphasize how annoyed he is?
What type of figurative language did Martin Luther King use in his speech and why did he use it?
Game Changer, 2X!!
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
What are metaphors? He believes there is justice, opportunity, and freedom for all men?
On Christmas morngin, Blaine opened up the present and began pouting. He screamed in a high-pitched voice, "This is Captain Thunder! I wanted Captain Lightning!" His mother looked at him with dismay and handed him another present, which he greedily opened. "Why did you get me a red hat? You know I like blue more," Blaine whined as he threw the hat across the room. His mother straightened her expression and squinted at him. Earlier she had hoped to take some pictures of this moment, but by now she had put away her camera. She sighed and handed him one more present in hopes that this year wouldn't be a total bust. Blaine huffed and opened it. "A Game Box 4000 wow. Where's the Game Box 5000 that I asked for?" His mother could bear his ingratitude no longer. The next time that Blaine returned from his father's house, he was shocked to find that all of these toys and gifts, along with many other of his things, had been generously donated to needy children. How does the setting contribute to the theme?
Christmas is a time to be thankful and gift giving.
Why did this author use a simile?
And during the times when I think it’s not fair enough, when my blood feels like lava, I step away.
What is to show the character was angry?
What is the effect of this simile:
Ms. Smith is like a vulture picking apart our essays.
What is it shows Ms. Smith is finding every little thing wrong with her students’ essays?
Game Changer, 2X!!
On Christmas morngin, Blaine opened up the present and began pouting. He screamed in a high-pitched voice, "This is Captain Thunder! I wanted Captain Lightning!" His mother looked at him with dismay and handed him another present, which he greedily opened. "Why did you get me a red hat? You know I like blue more," Blaine whined as he threw the hat across the room. His mother straightened her expression and squinted at him. Earlier she had hoped to take some pictures of this moment, but by now she had put away her camera. She sighed and handed him one more present in hopes that this year wouldn't be a total bust. Blaine huffed and opened it. "A Game Box 4000 wow. Where's the Game Box 5000 that I asked for?" His mother could bear his ingratitude no longer. The next time that Blaine returned from his father's house, he was shocked to find that all of these toys and gifts, along with many other of his things, had been generously donated to needy children. How does the conflict contribute to the theme?
Blaine whines and expresses disssatisfaction with his gifts, leading his mother to get rid of them.
When you appeal to someone with something sad or funny is what type of appeal?
What is appeal to emotion?
Identify the figurative language and its effect:
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
What is a metaphor? A poem is being compared to a maze. Like a maze, there are many twists and turns in poems and it can be difficult to get meaning
LEVEL UP! 4X
The Rose That Grew From Concret By Tupac
[1]Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature’s laws wrong it
learned to walk without having feet.
[5] Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.
How do line 3 & 4 contribute to the theme?
They show how people can overcome adverse circumstances.
Why did the author use an ellipsis in this sentence?
"The spit made me feel like an insect...like a slug burning in salty spit"
What is to show a pause before he kept talking?
Why did the author use this personification and simile?
When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn
What is a to the personification makes death seem alive. The simile makes death seem aggressive and hungry to take lives like a bear?
The Rose That Grew From Concret By Tupac
[1]Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature’s laws wrong it
learned to walk without having feet.
[5] Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.
How does the rose contribute to the theme?
It represeents how people that face problems.
Identify the metaphor in the stanza and explain its effect
It seems only yesterday I used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I could shine.
But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.
hat is Life is compared to a sidewalk, which can take us places, but can also cause us to bleed if we fall?
What two types of figurative language do you see and what do they suggest about the lady?
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies
What is Simile and Alliteration?
The woman is compared to a beautiful, cloudless night, full of stars. The alliteration in the second line emphasizes the night’s perfection by being “cloudless.”
The Road Not Taken (STEAL the DEAL)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.