1. Warm-Up: Figurative Language Review
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Use these terms: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, imagery, onomatopoeia, idiom, alliteration

2. Why use figurative language?
What does it add to writing?
How does it make narrative writing better?

3. Revision Practice
Take the following passage and REVISE to make it better by ADDING figurative language. One day last winter, I got into my car to go for a drive. The weather was bad. I was driving down the street when, all of a sudden, an animal ran in front of me. I pressed on my brakes and hit a patch of ice. What happened next was crazy.

4. The House on Mango Street
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Collection of memoirs/vignettes about growing up as a Latina American

5. Figurative Language in The House on Mango Street
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As we read, note examples of figurative language that stand out to you in the different excerpts.