Identify
Identify
Vocabulary
Examples
Synonyms
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What is figurative language ?
It means something beyond what the words literally say.
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combines the writer’s personal experiences with facts and ideas from other sources. The writer’s reflections on these experiences and ideas should show how they are all related
What do we call this type of essay?
Personal Essay
100
supposition
meaning: something assumed to be true (n.) related words: suppose, supposing synonyms: assumption, premise
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Read lines 35–41. Find a juxtaposition.
contrasting things, such as a highway and a duck’s nest, are interesting and surprising for readers
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inexplicably
synonyms: unaccountably, unfathomably, mysteriousl
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What is an hyperbole ?
is an intentional exaggeration that writers use for emphasis or effect.
200
(When you compare things using the word like or as)
similes
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talon
meaning: the claw of a bird of prey (n.) related words: talus
200
Read lines 123–129. Have students identify the use of alliteration.
(Alliteration: stalk, certain, skilled, supple, spot [lines 125–126]; plug, pulse [line 126]
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synonyms: assumption, premise
supposition
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What is syntax?
is the way a writer arranges words, including using sentences of varying lengths
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rhetorical questions
They are meant to require contemplation rather than an answer.
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inexplicably
meaning: being impossible to explain (adv.) related words: inexplicable, inexplicability, explicable, explicate, explain
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Read lines 67–75. Identify examples of hyperbole .
(line 67: “lovers, or deadly enemies”; lines 71–73: “emptied our lungs,” “felled the forest,” “moved the fields,” “drained the pond,” “world dismantled”; lines 73–74: “skulls would split.”
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synonyms: claw
talon
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What is consonance?
(repeating consonants within words)
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ignobly
meaning: in a manner that lacks qualities of high moral character (adv.)
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Have students reread lines 84–93. Ask them to identify the rhetorical questions .
(Lines 88–89 “Can I help it . . .?”; lines 90–91 “What goes on . . . ?” and “What does . . . ?”; Dillard uses these questions
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synonyms: dishonorably, shamefully, meanly
ignobly
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What is alliteration?
(repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words)
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What is juxtaposition?
placing two contrasting images near each other to highlight the contrast between them
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jugular vein
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Read lines 123–129. Have students identify the use of consonance .
Consonance: calling, skilled [line 125];