1. Figurative Language ELACC8RI4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative,

2. EQ  How can using figurative language improve my writing?

3. Simile  - A simile is a comparison using like or as. It usually compares two dissiimlar objects. Example: The man was man to a tree. as tall as a tree. This compares the Example: The crater was as wide as a football field. This compares the crater to a football field.

5. Idiom  an expression whose meanings cannot be guessed from the meanings of the words that make it up  Example: ( It was raining ) cats and dogs

6. Do not write the sentences. Tell what is meant by the following idioms.  1. That's the way the cookie crumbles.  2. He spilled the beans.  3. She's the apple of his eye.  4. The students in Class 4-420 are going bananas.  5. He's feeling blue today.  6. You're walking on thin ice mister!  7. Uh, oh. We're in hot water now.  8. You'd better hold your tongue and button your lip.  9. Mrs. Seigel has eyes in the back of her head.  10. Something’s fishy here.

7. Follow these steps in order. 1. Write your idiom. 2. What does your idiom mean? 3. Create an illustration of your idiom.

8. Metaphor  A metaphor states that one thing is something else. It is a comparison, but it DOES NOT use like or as to make the comparison. Example: The river was a winding snake in the forest. This compares the river to a snake by stating that it is a snake. Example: The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day. This

9. Alliteration  - The repetition of the same consonant sounds or of different vowel sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables Example: My big brother bought a baseball.

10. Onomatopoeia  - The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to Example: moo, buzz, splat

11. Personification  - A figure of speech in which things are given qualities or are represented as possessing human form. Example: A reference to thunder booming "angrily" personifies thunder by giving it emotion. Example: a smiling moon

12. Hyperbole  - figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect. Example: This book weighs a ton. Example: I could sleep for a year.

13. Symbolism  - the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. Example: If an author wants to show a happy ending to a story without saying "and everybody lived happily every after," he or she might describe a sunny day or a rainbow--symbols of happiness and cheer.

14. Hyperbole  obvious and intentional exaggeration. t may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally.  Example: I have a million things to do today.

15. Imagery  It is the usage of details and descriptions in order to create a sensory experience for the reader. Imagery/Image are the elements in a literary work used to evoke mental images.

16. Example of Imagery The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells

17. Rhyme -  The repetition of the same or similar sounds in words. Many times writers and poets repeat vowel sounds and ending sounds that appear close together. Example:  Whose woods these are, I think I know  this house is in the village, though

18. Rhyme Scheme  A rhyme scheme is a regular pattern of rhyme, one that is consistent throughout the extent of the poem. Poems that rhyme without any regular pattern can be called rhyming poems, but only those poems with an unvarying pattern to their rhymes can be said to have a rhyme scheme.

19. How it works.  Rhyme schemes are labeled according to their rhyme sounds. Every rhyme sound is given its own letter of the alphabet to distinguish it from the other rhyme sounds that may appear in the poem. There once was a big brown cat a That liked to eat a lot of mice. b He got all round and fat a Because they tasted so nice. b