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Day 2
 Lets
Review!
 Simile
 Metaphor
 Personification
 Mood
 Great!
Lets practice interpreting figurative
language with a poem:
Hurricane
Spinning leaves, flowing water.
All rotating together.
Like water spinning down the drain of an enormous
bathtub.
Clockwise in the South. Counterclockwise in the North.
No toys, no bubbles.
Only wind and rain, and the hope that soon all will be
safely dried with the fluffy towel of sunshine
Hurricane
Spinning leaves, flowing water.
All rotating together.
Like water spinning down the drain of
an enormous bathtub.
Clockwise in the South.
Counterclockwise in the North.
No toys, no bubbles.
Only wind and rain, and the hope that
soon all will be safely dried with
the fluffy towel of sunshine
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Why does the author
compare the leaves and
flowing water to water
spinning down the drain of
an enormous bathtub?
A. the leaves are wet from
the rain
B. The bathtub is full of
water and leaves
C. The leaves and water
are spinning in the air
together due to the strong
winds
D. The leaves have blown
off the trees from the
strong winds
Hurricane
Spinning leaves, flowing water.
All rotating together.
Like water spinning down the drain
of an enormous bathtub.
Clockwise in the South.
Counterclockwise in the North.
No toys, no bubbles.
Only wind and rain, and the hope
that soon all will be safely dried
with the fluffy towel of sunshine
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What does the author mean
when he says “soon all will all
will be safely dried with the
fluffy towel of sunshine?”
A. The speaker will go outside
and dry everything off with a
towel
B. When the hurricane passes
the sun will shine and all will
be well.
C. The sunshine will stop the
hurricane
D. The towel will keep the
speaker safe from the hurricane
Figurative Language
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Stay in your seats at all times.
You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the
answer to a question AND
Write ONE response to the question on a
sheet of paper.
All teams will hold up their answers.
If you are correct, your team will get the
opportunity to shoot the correct response
into the trashcan from a 1, 2, or 3 point
line.
If the shot is made, the team gets extracredit.
Shots will be made after ALL the questions
have been answered.
The soul selects her own society,
Then shuts the door;
On her divine majority
Obtrude no more.
Personification: The soul is given the ability
to select societies and shut doors.
You say that you are wronged--ah, well,
I count that friendship poor, at best
A bauble, a mere bagatelle,
That cannot stand so slight a test.
Metaphor: He compares the friendship to a
bauble or bagatelle, a cheap trinket.
The terrier, down on the hearth,
Twitches and barks in his sleep,
Soft little foolish barks,
More like a dream than a dog . . .
Simile: The dog is compared to a dream using
the word “like.”
Gazing at the apex
star configurations
red picnic blanket
the endless summer.
Hyperbole: The summer is described as
endless, which is an exaggeration.
Nor will a brave man choose to live when he,
Full deeply drunk of life, has reached the dregs.
Metaphor: life is compared to a drink. The
end of life is compared to the end of a
drink, one with food particles in the
bottom.
As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
Of an aged face.
Simile: an aged face was compared to a
white candle using the word “as.”
Gossiping on the country-side,
Spring and the wandering breezes say,
God has thrown Heaven open wide
And let the thrushes out to-day.
Personification: Spring and the wandering
breezes are given the ability to talk.
Taking daughter’s boyfriend hostage
may have been a bit extreme,
But other fathers have done worse things
when their daughters were sixteen.
Understatement: Taking one’s daughter’s
boyfriend hostage is more than “a bit”
extreme.
Beautiful lie the dead;
Like ships, the anchor dropped,
In a deep water.
Simile: The dead are compared to ships with
anchors dropped.
I heard a cry in the night,
A thousand miles it came,
It was quiet then it was louder,
My name, my name, my name…
Hyperbole: The speaker is exaggerating how
loud the call was.