1. Use one of your vocabulary words to fill in the blanks
Use one of your vocabulary words to fill in the blanks. Write the number and words in your journal.
Word Bank: augment, deploy, fortitude, guise, opulent
All new models are required to have airbags that ______________, when enough impact is made with a car’s front end.
In order to impress others, people often where a _____________ that hides their faults and odd traits.
Like the cliché saying, one bad apple can _______________ a whole bunch, because of the gasses that are naturally emitted, when the apple starts to spoil.
The defensive line has such great _____________ that the all-state running back was held to 36 yards.
The ______________ mansion was decorated with chandeliers and expensive pieces of art.

2. Notes – Figurative Language

3. Metaphor and simile
A comparison of two unlike ideas to emphasize similarities
A simile is a type of metaphor, but it uses the word like or as.
Examples: He was a stubborn mule. -or- He was as stubborn as a mule.

4. Personification Giving human qualities to something that is not human.
Example: The sun reached across the horizon to bring the world out of darkness.
Similar to personification we will run into examples of nonhuman objects being animated and given life like qualities without actually giving human like qualities. The effect is similar.

5. Euphemism
The substitution of a less offensive or kinder term for one considered explicitly offensive or harsh.

6. Hyperbole
Extreme exaggeration

7. Understatement
Deliberately making a statement seem less important than it actually is.
Example: In Romeo and Juliet Mercutio is mortally wounded and says that the wound is merely a scratch.

8. synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole.
Example: He bought a new set of wheels.

9. synesthesia A blending of the senses Example: a loud yellow
Example: Where the sun is silent