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DO NOW Take out your vocabulary from Friday – literary terms and poetic devices. Then, in your binders, write funny examples of: simile, metaphor, alliteration.
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DO NOW
Take out your vocabulary from Friday – literary terms and poetic devices. Then, in your binders, write funny examples of: simile,
metaphor, alliteration.
Characterization
Irony
Protagonist
Pro = goodPRO athlete PROfessional
PROS and cons
PLOT
Foreshadowing
Antagonist
Flashback
Climax
Theme
Message, moral, or lesson
Jessica's "Daily Affirmation"
What is the theme of this video???
Dialogue
Usually in quotation marks, sometimes in italics
Conflict
The problem
What is the conflict in The Lion King?
Point of View
1st person2nd person3rd person
Setting
Alliteration
Repetition of CONSONANT sounds
Let’s hear your examples from the Do Now
Figurative Language
Figurative Vs. Literal
Assonance
Repetition of VOWEL sounds
Let’s think of examples.
Onomatopoeia
Simile vs. Metaphor
BrainPOP video
Paraphrase
Para = informal
Phrase = group of words
PersonificationExamples:
The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow.
She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.
My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.
The thunder grumbled like an old man.
The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze.
I could hear the weekend calling to me.
Speaker
The poet is not necessarily the “speaker” of the poem.
OxymoronThe word is made up of two Greek words meaning "sharp" and "dull”.
paid volunteer pretty ugly
almost exactly whole half
open secret deafening silence
clearly confused old news
alone together definite maybe
seriously funny
Allusion “Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.”– “Romeo” is a reference to Shakespeare’s Romeo, a passionate lover of Juliet, in “Romeo and Juliet”.
“This place is like a Garden of Eden.” –This is a biblical allusion to the “garden of God” in the Book of Genesis.
Rhyme
Hyperbole• He knows everything about The Beatles.
• My high-heels are killing me.
• Our new house cost a bazillion dollars.
• The gymnasium was filled with millions of balloons
for the school dance.
• We waited forever for the latest game to be
released.
• I'll be there in 2 seconds.
Prose vs. Verse
Stanza
How many stanzas are in this poem?
