1. Thursday, August 24, 2017
Pick up one of each paper from the back counter.
You need glue, scissors, colored pencils/pens, your interactive notebook for class today.
We are going to the book fair for the first half of class, and then we will come back to work on our notebooks.
Bellwork:
Add the following to your table of contents at the front of your notebook:
Pg. 9 – Figurative language
Take note of the following important dates:
Monday, September 18 – Assessment: “Flowers for Algernon”
Tuesday, September 26 – Next CFA
Wednesday, September 27-Friday, September 29 – Book talks (more information to come!! Just BE PREPARED!!!)

2. Figurative Language Cut out both of the boxes.
Cut out each tab TO THE MARGIN.
Glue down the BLANK set of tabs first.
On top of the blank set of tabs, glue down the set of tabs with the figurative language terms on it.
Under the figurative language term, you will write the definition. Under the definition, you will write an example.

3. Figurative language Simile Onomatopoeia Metaphor Idiom Hyperbole
A comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”
The water reflected colors like a rainbow.
Metaphor
A comparison of two unlike things by saying that one thing is another thing.
The toddler’s eyes were sparkling gems.
Hyperbole
An extreme exaggeration that cannot be true.
My backpack weighed a ton.
Personification
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
The spicy food danced around my tastebuds.
Alliteration
The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.
I rode down the Red River in a raft.
Onomatopoeia
Words whose sound suggests their meaning.
I heard the whoosh of the tennis racket as it sliced through the air.
Idiom
A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual literal meaning.
That test was a piece of cake!
Allusion
A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, or movies.
Everyone called Kate, Lauren, and Emma the Three Musketeers.
Oxymoron
A combination of contradictory words.
In the classroom the silence was deafening.
That joke was seriously funny.