Figurative Language
To understand figurative language you have to use your
What is imagination?
The name of a person who writes an article ...
What is an author?
The name of a person who writes a poem ...
What is a poet?
The name of a person who writes a play...
What is a playwright?
Whistle your favorite song!
(whistles favorite song)
Define personification
What is giving non-human things human characteristics?
In the text structure SEQUENTIAL, ideas are organized ...
True or false: Poetry has to have figurative langauge in order to be considered a poem.
What is false?
True or false: you do not have to read the stage directions.
What is false?
What were the book club options this six weeks?
What is The Giver? What is The Lightning Thief?
To understand similes and metaphors, you look at what is being compared and ____________ it by coming up with a list of __________.
first blank - What is visualize?
second blank - What is details or characteristics?
True or false: you can describe author's purpose ONLY using the words to persuade, inform, and entertain?
What is false?
(example: the author describes, compares, explains, provides, etc.)
Which is a stronger, a simile or metaphor?
What is metaphor?
The conversation between characters is called
What is dialogue?
This person has the top selling album in 2021
Who is Adele?
Define and provide an example of a simile.
What is a comparison using the words "like" or "as"?
What is (student simile example)?
In order to determine the main idea of a text, highlight the _____ __________ and figure out what they have in ___________.
First blank - what is key details?
Second blank - what is common?
This gives poetry a muscial quality
What is rhythm? or What is rhyme?
MARIA: [picks up candy and puts behind her back] Okay momma! I understand. I am going to go to bed now.
What can you infer about this interaction?
What is:
- Maria is a child
- Maria is not supposed to have the candy
A butterfly breaks out of a ...
What is a chrysallis?
Define and provide an example of a metaphor.
What is a comparison saying something IS something else?
What is (student metaphor example)?
Fill in the blanks:
1. When answering questions, _________ key words
2. Cross off ________________.
3. Find ________ to _________ your answer.
1. circle/highlight
2. wrong answer choices
3. evidence, prove
Determine the rhyme scheme:
The plates will still shift
and the clouds will still spew.
The sun will slowly rise
and the moon will follow too.
Life’s beauty will continue
to flourish all around,
but now you are gone,
these birds have no sound.
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/and-the-world-carries-on
What is abcb bded?
Stage directions are important because they provide the reader with
What is information about how someone says something and their actions?
MUST HAVE BOTH
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
What is "A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood".
Or
What is 700 pounds?