1. Agenda
Voice Lesson: Julius Caesar (questions from last unit test)/Fig. Lang. #1
ATSS, D.L. Group #1 – chaps. 4-9
ATSS, Quiz, Chaps. 1-9 and Background

2. Reminders – 10/10/16 ATSS Discussion Leader Group 1 – today, 10/10
ATSS Quiz, Chapters 1-9 & background info – today, 10/10
Research Paper Proposal – Thursday, 10/13 is the last day I will take these.
Grammar Project Groups #1 & #2 – Wednesday, 10/12
ATSS, D.L. Group #2 – Thursday, 10/13
Vocabulary Quiz Unit 8 – Friday, 10/14

3. Voice Lesson: Figurative Language #1 (Metaphors, Similes, and Personification

4. What is Figurative Language?
Any language that is NOT used in a literal (meaning exactly what it says) way
A way of saying one thing and meaning another
Examples:
That ball sat in the outfield.
Jimmy ran like a cheetah to first base.
If looked at literally, the statements don’t make sense at all.

5. Why use Figurative Language?
It’s a rich, strong, and vivid way to express meaning
We are able to say much more in fewer words.

6. Example “My love is like a red, red rose” (Robert Burns)
He is saying is love is beautiful, soft, and fragrant.
The rose is red, the color of passion and love. This adds another dimension.
The rose also has thorns, which says that there’s a potential danger in loving her. She may hurt him.
The poet has squeezed many ideas into a single line.

7. Caution about Figurative Language
While it is useful, it can be overdone.
When a figure of speech is used over and over again, it loses its freshness and originality and becomes a cliché, a stale and overused expression.
Pretty as a picture
Quiet as a mouse
Laughter is the best medicine
Every cloud has a silver lining.

8. Metaphors and Similes
Used to compare things that are not usually seen as similar.
Metaphors IMPLY the comparison
Similes STATE the comparison directly
Comparison of unlike things

9. Let’s look at an example
Metaphor (IMPLY)
Simile (STATE)
That test was a bear!
Not saying it was a literal bear, but that it was unpredictable and hard to deal with.
Comparison is not directly stated; rather it is implied or suggested
You identify the bear with the test.
“That test was like struggling with a bear!”
Still not literal – not really like struggling with a bear

10. Metaphors and Similes They have literal terms and figurative terms
The literal term is what we are comparing to something else. It’s what’s real; it means what it is.
For example, “That test was a bear!” (Literal term is test)
The figurative term is what is being compared to the literal term.
For example, “That test was a bear!” (Figurative term is bear)

11. Try it Out!
Read the following sentences and determine a) metaphor or simile; b) literal term c) figurative term
I got a flood of mail yesterday.
Alice sang like a crow.
Jeff was taller than the Empire State Building.
The shoes cost a king’s ransom.

12. Figurative Language in Action
Read and Think:
Write About It:
What is the metaphor in this poem? What is literal term? What is the figurative term? What does the metaphor imply?
How would the meaning and impact of these lines change if Nye said simply, My stomach really hurt?
I was seven, I lay in the car
watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass.
My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin.
-- Naomi Shihab Nye, “Making a Fist,” Words Under the Words: Selected Poems

13. A Thousand Splendid Suns
Discussion Leader Group #1 (Chaps. 4-9)
Reading Quiz, Chaps background
When you finish quiz, review the research paper and project assignment. Write down what questions you have. We will discuss after the quiz.

14. Research Paper Topic & Project
Introduce the idea of project
Research Topic Proposal Requirements (on back of research paper assignment)

15. Summarizer
On the back of your index card, answer the following questions:
Choose TWO of the following sentence starters and finish them:
I learned…
I discovered…
I wonder…
I think…
Can you believe…?
I was surprised that…
I found out…
I noticed that…
Now I wonder…
What’s one question you have about the inquiry/research topic process/proposal?