Figurative Language
Name the figurative language:
Put away your paints and practice the piano!
What is alliteration?
This character from House on Mango Street has a boyfriend in Puerto Rico and babysits her cousins all day.
Who is Marin?
True or false: Annotation is reading something passively.
False!
Name the figurative language:
"His face was as red as a tomato"
What is a simile?
This is the person Esperanza is named after, the woman who "looked out the window all her life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow."
Who is Esperanza's great-grandmother?
True or false:
We annotate things everyday, like when we read shampoo bottles in the shower.
False
Name the figurative language:
The grass danced in the breeze
What is Personification?
This character's cousin showed up in the neighborhood with a yellow Cadillac and took many of the kids for a ride.
Who is Louie?
Annotation helps us understand what we are __________.
Reading.
Name the figurative language
This is the icing on the cake.
What is a metaphor?
Fill in the blank:
"The House on Mango street is small and red with tight steps and _____ so small they looked like they were holding their breath."
What is windows?
Actively reading something means you are thinking _______ about what you are reading.
Deeply
Turn this metaphor into a simile:
He's a cheetah. He's so fast.
What is, "He is fast like a cheetah" or "He's as fast as a cheetah"
The House on Mango Street is a collection of _______.
What are vignettes?
These are the three Cs of annotation.
What are Clarify, Comprehend and Connect?