Figurative Devices
What is a metaphor?
"Life is like a box of chocolates."
What is a simile?
The most exciting part of a story.
What is, say hello?
You have 15 seconds to write a metaphor describing the school cafeteria food.
The cafeteria pizza is made of cardboard.
This language device allows writers to describe the taste of something for the reader.
What is gustatory imagery?
"Opportunity knocked at her door."
The perspective that a story is told.
What is point of view?
Notebook, pen, highlighters, and fully charged computer.
What are the materials we have to bring to class?
Create a hyperbole for this sentence: "My backpack is heavy."
My back pack weighs ten thousand pounds!
Used to make an exaggeration to create impact.
What is hyperbole?
"Whisper words of wisdom, let it be."
What is alliteration?
The feeling of anticipation that rises as the story continues.
What is tension?
How to get Ms Tuazon to reply right away when needed.
What is, label email with "urgent"?
Choose an object in the classroom and give it human characteristics.
The clock ticked by lazily.
The whiteboard stared blankly back at me.
Giving human characteristics to non-human objects.
"I'm so powerful I can make medicine sick!"
What is hyperbole?
The problem encountered by the characters that they try to solve throughout the story.
What is conflict?
Consequence that involves writing things down instead of typing.
What is, device has been confiscated?
Create a continuous sentence with as much alliteration as possible.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Words like "sizzle", "buzz", and "crash."
What is onomatopoeia?
"Who wouldn't want to win the lottery?"
What is rhetorical question?
Opposite of protagonist.
The minimum amount of time needed to email me to ask for an extension.
What is one day?
Create a two-line mini-poem about a thunderstorm that contains BOTH a simile AND an oxymoron.
"The thunder cracked like a roaring whip / Filling the dark sky with deafening silence."