ENGLISH III
Unit 5 Day 5- Personification,
Onomatopoeia, Alliteration,
Imagery. Hyperbole, Idiom
Leader: Good afternoon, Pumas. Please compose yourselves for prayer by
taking a comfortable position in your chairs.
Leader: Ad Majorem . . . All: Dei Gloriam.
Leader: We study, work and play . . . All: for the greater glory of God.
2-MINUTE REFLECTION
Leader: We close by saying, “Glory to the Father, and to Jesus the Son, and to
the Holy Spirit . . .
All: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen! ”
Do-now: Have vocab out! Have “The World’s a
Stage” Poem out also.
Determine whether each sentence uses the correct
pronoun. FIX it if it’s wrong. **QUIZ MONDAY ON THIS.
1. My mom and dad, along with my sister, all had his or
her bags packed and ready to go.
1. INCORRECT, SHOULD BE: My mom and dad, along with
my sister, all had their bags packed and ready to go.
2. No one was quite as good with handling their juggling
clubs as Jay was.
1. INCORRECT, SHOULD BE: No one was quite as good
with handling his or her juggling clubs as Jay was.
Announcements/Reminders:
• Quiz next Wednesday on literary devices.
• Outside reading is due Monday, April 14th.
• TURN IN GATSBY BOOKS AT THE TABLE
ON YOUR WAY OUT!
▫ SIGN-IN YOUR BOOK BY TELLING WHAT
BOOK NUMBER YOU’RE TURNING IN (Even
if it’s not your own book)
Tip of the day:
CORRECT OR INCORRECT? I couldn’t believe that
the women had her own private jet!
*INCORRECT: should be woman (woman
= 1 person, women = many).
Prayer:
• Period 6: Anthony C.,
▫ Fri: Rita
• Period 7: Jenni,
▫ Fri: Bryan
• Period 8: Cindy,
▫ Fri: Sammie
SWBAT:
• Explain the use of literary devices in poetry
(personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration,
hyperbole, imagery)
Check Vocab 11:
1. anti- against, opposite
2. graph- to write
3. in- and im- not, non
4. cred- believe
5. -less- without
6. salv- save
7. sat- enough
8. leg- law
9. ambi- around, about, both
10.arch- first
More Literary Devices
• Put these into your notes under the “literary
devices” section.
• I will give you a literary device, and an
example… you will guess the definition.
Personification
• Examples:
▫ The pencil danced across the table
▫ The wind whistled through the branches
• Definition???
▫ When an inanimate object (or non-human)
takes on a human characteristic.
Onomatopoeia:
• Examples:
▫ BOOM!
▫ WHOOSH!
▫ Oink!
• Definition???
▫ Sound effects
Alliteration:
• Sally sells seashells by the
seashore
• Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled peppers
• Definition?
▫ Repeating the first letter of a
series of words in a row
(mostly)
Imagery
• Example:
The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways
Six o’clock
The burnt-out end of smoky days
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
• Definition??
▫ Using vivid and descriptive language; paints a
picture in your head
Hyperbole
• Examples:
▫ OMG! That is the funniest
thing I have EVER seen!
▫ I would walk a million miles
just to see you.
• Definition??
▫ Exaggeration
Poems:
• For each of the following poems, we’ll look at
literary devices in the poems and will discuss
why these literary devices are being used:
• “Sick” by Shel Silverstein
• “Because I could not stop for death…” by Emily
Dickinson
• “Betty Botter”
HW:
• Bring outside reading books!
• For each poem on the back of the handout…
1) Determine 1-3 literary devices in each.
2) Explain the purpose of each literary device in 1-3
sentences.
• Study for vocab quiz– know definitions and have
examples of the words ready.
Exit:
• Write your favorite poem we have read so far.
Tell me why it’s your favorite.
• Write your least favorite poem we’ve read. Tell
me why it’s your least favorite.
FRIDAY:
• Vocab 11 quiz on etymology
• Explanation of how to do reflection
• Time to work on outside readings or reflection
• MONDAY:
• Review the different types of literary devices
• Sonnets– couplets and the effect that has
• WEDNESDAY:
• Quiz on lit. devices.
• Introduce new project.
For each day of writing a poem:
• Day 1: Do the step by step poem
• Day 2: Be inspired by a song (XX-intro or
Bolero)
• Day 3: Be inspired by a picture
• Day 4: Use these 3 of the 4 words in a poem