Bell Ringer
• Complete the Bell Ringer and hold onto it. We will
review it momentarily.
• Turn in any late/absent work to the class inbox.
• Finish copying the Mood and Tone Words
Chart(Answer Key) into your comp. book and
summarize what you learned about mood and tone
in your Cornell Notes from last class.
Housekeeping
• Study all previously assigned word parts for the
Week 12 multiple choice Cumulative Quiz on 12/9
(B) & 12/10 (A)
• Go to blog, print out Figurative Language Mini
Posters & complete the literary devices used in this
Power Point. Use original examples. Due 12/9 (B) &
12/10 (A)
Today’s Standards
• LA.6.2.1.7 locate and analyze an author’s use of
allusions and descriptive, idiomatic, and figurative
language in a variety of literary text, identifying how
word choice sets the author’s tone
• I will be able to…
o Determine the difference between figurative and
descriptive language
o Locate and analyze allusions, descriptive, idiomatic, and
figurative language
o Identify word choice
o Identify author’s tone
Figurative &
Descriptive
Language
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1. Take six pieces of paper and stagger them so they
are approximately ½ to ¾ of an inch apart
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2. Fold them over horizontally
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3. Staple twice across the fold to hold in place
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4. Put your heading on the top tab. The title: Figurative
Language should take up most of the tab
Ms. Barker
12/5 – 12/6
Per. 2A, 3A, 5B, 8B
5. Label the rest of the tabs as we go
Descriptive Language
• Descriptive language — Language intended to create a
mood, person, place, thing, event, emotion, or
experience. Descriptive language uses images that
appeal to the reader’s senses, helping the reader to
imagine how a subject looks, sounds, smells, tastes, or
feels.
• Includes:
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
Alliteration
Allusion
Imagery
Irony
Mood
Onomatopoeia
Satire
Tone
Figurative Language
• Figurative language— Language that involves the use of
words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of
another and that is not meant to be understood on a
literal level. Figurative language always involves some
sort of imaginative comparison between seemingly
unlike things.
• Includes:
o
o
o
o
o
o
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Pun
Simile
Symbolism
Alliteration
• Alliteration – the repetition of consonant sounds at
the beginning of words
• Examples:
o Brooke Best’s birthday bash and bonfire
o Peter Parker
Allusion
• Allusion – Reference to a widely known event,
book, myth, place, person, art, etc.
Gnomeo &
Juliet is an
allusion to
Romeo & Juliet
Megamind’s poster
is an allusion to
President Obama’s
2008 presidential
campaign
Julie:
What
are
Warm
Bodies’
you
doing
here?
balcony
scene
is a
R:
Came to
see
reference
to Romeo
you
& Juliet’s forbidden
love
Hyperbole
• Hyperbole – extreme exaggeration used to make a
point
Idiom
• Idiom – a common
expression where the
meaning is different
than the literal; idioms
are unique to the
community where they
were created
• Examples:
1. Close call
2. Dog eat dog
3. A far cry
4. Spill the beans
5. The cold shoulder
6. Curiosity killed the cat
7. No dice
8. A piece of cake
9. When nature calls
Imagery
• Imagery - The sensory details used to describe,
using the five senses
Examples:
Sight – rain, breeze, flames,
nature, different colors
Sound – slower, “airy” sound
for wind, violent sound for
fire, playful sound for earth
Touch – water on skin,
breeze moving hair and
fabric, heat from the fire,
grass under your feet
Smell – smoke, rain, wind,
grass
Taste - water
Onomatopoeia
• Onomatopoeia – natural sounds are imitated in the
sounds of words
Onomatopoeia
• Onomatopoeia – natural sounds are imitated in the
sounds of words
Ring-ding-ding-dingdingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-dingdingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-dingdingeringeding!
What the fox say?
Personification
• Personification – Giving human characteristics to
something non-human
• Examples:
o Love is blind
o The sun is smiling on us today
o Jealousy, she will destroy you
Simile
• Simile –
comparing
two unlike
things using
the words
like, as, or
than
You’re as cuddly as a cactus
You’re as charming as an eel
Metaphor
• Metaphor – the comparison of two unlike things,
suggesting a similarity
• Examples:
o He has a heart of stone
o You are my sunshine
Simile vs. Metaphor
• Additional examples to help you from confusing the
two…
Simile vs. Metaphor
Practice
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel,
Mr. Grinch.
You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel.
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders.
You've got garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch.
I wouldn't touch you with a
Thirty-nine and a half foot pole.
Simile vs. Metaphor
Practice
You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch.
You have termites in your smile,
You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick
crocodile,
Mr. Grinch.
Given the choice between the two of you,
I'd take the seasick crocodile.
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch.
You're a nasty wasty skunk.
Your heart is full of unwashed socks.
Your soul is full of gunk,
Mr. Grinch.
Simile vs. Metaphor
Practice
The three best words that best describe you,
Are as follows, and I quote
Stink!
Stank!
Stunk!
You're a rotter Mr. Grinch
You're the king of sinful sots
Your heart’s a dead tomato squashed with moldy
purple spots
Mr. Grinch
Simile vs. Metaphor
Practice
Your soul is a appalling dump heap
Overflowing with the most disgraceful
Assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable,
Mangled up in tangled up knots.
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch
With a noxious super nos
You're a crooked jerky jockey and,
You drive a crooked horse
Mr. Grinch!
You're a three-decker sauerkraut
And toadstool sandwich,
With arsenic sauce!
Closing
• Complete the sentences on two post-it notes and
post them on the correct signs as you leave class
today.