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- 1. Creative Writing Today wewill: • Review similes and metaphors • Learn about Personification • Look at how we can create effective and interesting characters.
- 2. Five Senses 1. Mr.Williams sat singing softly into the long night, chanting to the thunder. 2. Mama jumped, but papa wrapped her smooth hand in his. 3. The sky was a deep rich red as it disappeared behind the horizon. 4. The ice- cold lemonade created such a tingling, refreshing sensation 5. Ms Samuels relished in the deep aroma of freshly brewed coffee.
- 3. Your Turn Use sensoryimagery to describe the following: • A roller coaster in a theme park (sound) • The ocean during a thunderstorm (sight) • A fizzy drink (taste) • The chill that comes over you when you walk into a haunted house (feel) • The smell of a food market as you walk around it (smell)
- 4. Figurative Language SIMILE A simileis when two things are compared using the linking words ‘like’, ‘as’ or ‘than’ Eg. My brother is like a pig. Writer’s often use language in imaginative, unexpected ways to present scenes and characters. This is called figurative language. METAPHOR A metaphor compares two things directly. One thing is said to be another. Eg. My brother is a pig.
- 5. Task Complete the followingsentences using a simile or metaphor where required. Make your similes and metaphors unique and interesting! • As white as… • As smooth as… • The moon is … • I am ….
- 6. Personification This is aform of figurative language in which animals, inanimate objects and abstract ideas are addressed or described as if they are human. Eg. The sun refused to show its face.
- 7. Dead Language Master– Joan Aiken Dead Language Master – Joan Aiken Mr. Fletcher taught us Latin. He was the shape of a domino. Not, that’s wrong because he wasn’t square; he looked as if he had been cut out of a domino. He had shape but no depth, you felt he could have slipped through the crack at the hinge of a door if he’d gone sideways. Though I daresay if he’d really been able to do that he would have made for use of the faculty; he was great on stealing quietly along a passage and then opening the door very fast to see what we were all up to; he used to drift around silently like an old ghost, but if you had a keen sense of smell you always had advance warning of his arrival because of the capsule of stale cigarette smoke that he moved about in. He smoked non-stop; he used a holder but even so his fingers were yellow up to the knuckles and so were his teeth when he bared them in a horse grin. He had dusty black hair that hung in a lank flop over his big square forehead, and his feet were enormous; they curved as he put them down like a duck’s flippers, which I suppose was why he could move so quietly. If someone kicked up a disturbance at the back of the classroom he’s first to screw up his eyes and stick his head out, so that he looked like a snake, weaving his head about to try and focus on the guy who was making the row; then he’s start slowly down the aisle, thrusting his face between each line of desks; I can tell you it was quite an unnerving performance. None of our lot cared greatly for Latin, we didn’t see the point of it, so we didn’t have much in common with old Fletcher. We thought he was a funny old coot, a total square – he used words like ‘topping’ and ‘ripping’ which he must have picked out of the Boys Own Paper in the nineteen – tens. He was dead keen on his subject and would have taught it quite well if anyone had been interested.; the only time you saw a wintry smile light up his yellow face was when he was pointing out the beauties of some
- 8. Activity Write a descriptionof your best/worst teacher, without telling us who. Remember to use: •Similes •Metaphors •Adjectives •Sensory imagery!