1. Agenda (for me) Voice Lesson: Figurative Language #1
Photo Analysis – practice w/second photo
Discuss articles from yesterday – SB text
Review definitions of evidence terms
Discuss pieces & identify evidence
Review the chart of Common Fallacies
Find examples of each – commercials or print ads – post links to blog
Intro to Research Paper/Project

2. Reminders – 10-18-17 ATSS, Chaps. 4-9 due tomorrow
HW: On blog under Human Condition Unit Resources in your tab, you will find a PPT with notes and a guided notes document. Please review it and know the information. It will be included in your quiz this Friday over Chaps. 1-9 and background.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Let’s look at an example
Metaphor (IMPLY)
Simile (STATE)
My anger roared and devoured everything it encountered; its ferociousness made it unconquerable. Its teeth glared and shined when facing any foe.
Not saying it was a literal lion, but that it was roaring and unconquerable; teeth glaring and hard to deal with.
Comparison is not directly stated; rather it is implied or suggested
You identify the lion with the anger.
“My anger was like a ferocious lion!”
Still not literal – not really like a lion.

9. 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)

10. 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.

11. Figurative Language in Action
Read and Think:
Write About It:
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
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?

12. ATSS – further discussion
Identify examples of figurative language (metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, imagery, etc.) in chaps Explain what is suggested by the use of those elements.

13. Photo Analysis - practice
Let’s view another photograph. You and your group should work together to analyze it using the OPTIC strategy.
Then, your group should attempt to write an interpretation of the photograph using the instructions on your OPTIC handout.

14. A Mursi tribe woman discovers Vogue magazine, Ethiopia.

15. Argument Discuss articles from yesterday – SB text
Review definitions of evidence terms
Discuss pieces & identify evidence
Review the chart of Common Fallacies
Find examples of each – commercials or print ads – post links to blog