Transcript Fig Lang Miss Daisy Style Lesson

Miss Daisy
Using Style in Your Writing
Miss-Metaphor
 a comparison between two things in
which one thing becomes another thingdon’t use like or as
 Example
 The blades of grass were soldiers standing
at attention.
Time for Practice:
Write 2 metaphors. Remember,
make a comparison between two
things and DO NOT use the words
“like” or “as”
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Daisy-Dialogue
 using direct quotes in your writing
 Example
 Mother emphatically yelled, “I won the
lottery!”
Time for Practice:
Write 2 sentences using dialogue
and correct punctuation.
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And-Adjectives/Adverbs
 Use descriptive adjectives to modify
nouns or pronouns. Use descriptive
adverbs to modify verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs.
 Example
 The luxurious hotel sat grandly in the middle
of a glorious mountain valley.
I-Idiom
 a group of words that have an
“understood” meaning which is different
from the meaning the words appear to
have
 Example It’s raining cats and dogs.
Time for Practice:
Think of a common idiom that you
or your family uses. Write it down
and draw a small, simple picture.
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Saw-Sensory Words
 appeals to your five senses
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Smell
Taste
Touch/feel
Hear
Sight
 Example
 The hot, gooey chocolate chips cookies’ aroma was
wafting from the kitchen.
Time for Practice:
Think of being in a movie theater. Write a
sentence for each sense.
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What I see: _______________________
What I taste: ______________________
What I touch: ______________________
What I hear: ______________________
What I smell: ______________________
USE DESCRIPTIVE WORDS!!!!
Seven-Simile
 comparison between two things using a
word such as like, as, than, or resembles
 Example
 The clouds were like fluffy white cotton balls
floating in the sky.
Time for Practice:
Write 3 similes.
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Very-Vivid Verbs
 avoid using am, is, are, was, were. Use
action verbs
 Example
 He ran down the hall.
 He darted quickly down the long corridor.
Time for Practice:
Replace the underlined verbs to
make them more vivid!
 John ran down the hallway.
 The girl and boy walked together to the
playground.
 The ball was hit over the fence.
Angry-Alliteration
 the repetition of the same or very similar
consonant sounds in words that are close
together
 Example
 The kitchen is close to a quick renovation.
Time for Practice:
Write 1 sentence with alliteration.
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Pelicans-Personification
 special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as
if it were human
 Example
 The sun is smiling down upon me.
 The branch reached out and grabbed my
sweatshirt.
Time for Practice:
Write 2 sentences using
personification.
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Outside-Onomatopoeia
 the use of a word whose sound imitates
or suggest its meaning
 Example
 The steaks sizzled on the grill.
Time for Practice:
Write 2 sentences using
onomatopoeia.
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