The document is a collection of poems and poetry exercises from a student's poetry anthology. It includes definitions and examples of different poetry forms like acrostics, haikus, cinquains, and more. The student provides their own original poems in each form.
The document provides background information on William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. It discusses that the play was likely written between 1590 and 1596, though the exact date is unknown. It may have been performed for an aristocratic wedding or to celebrate St. John's feast day. Although set in Athens, the play reflects aspects of British society at the time. The language uses rhyming verse, blank verse, and prose to distinguish characters and add comic effects. Midsummer's Eve was believed to be a magical night when fairies and witches held festivals. The document also outlines Shakespeare's use of language, including rhyming verse, blank verse, and prose, and how this
The document discusses a group of amateur actors in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who are craftsmen preparing to perform a play called "Pyramus and Thisbe" at a wedding. It analyzes the language and symbolism used in their play within the play and how their bumbling performance parodies the conventions of tragedy for comedic effect. The craftsmen's botched performance of the tragedy provides commentary on the pretensions of the nobility and acts as a counterpoint to the romantic themes of the main plot.
The document discusses how Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream explores the idea introduced in the first scene - that "the course of true love never did run smooth." It does this by examining how the magic juice affects the four young lovers, causing their love to change rapidly. Their love seems based only on the feelings of the lover under the spell's influence, not on any merits of the beloved. It also looks at the odd romance between Titania and Bottom after she is enchanted. Throughout, Shakespeare highlights the irrational and changeable nature of love, which provides comic situations but also shows love's darker side.
The poem describes a man who picks up a hitchhiker while driving. The man is stressed from work and envious of the hitchhiker's carefree lifestyle. He takes out his frustrations on the hitchhiker, brutally beating him with a weapon and throwing him from the moving car. The man recounts the violent act dispassionately and returns to normal details of the day, highlighting his lack of remorse over killing the hitchhiker.
Elit 17 class 10 end richard iii introduce essay 1jordanlachance
This document provides an agenda and discussion topics for an ELIT 17 Class. The agenda includes recitations, a discussion on final thoughts about Richard III, and an introduction to Essay #1. It then provides details about each item: the recitation topics, instructions for group discussions on homework questions, comparisons of scenes from the Richard III film and play, potential essay topics including on Richard III, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, and guidelines for writing a response to literature. Potential essay prompts are outlined and writing tips are provided. The document concludes with additional questions about MLA formatting and works cited pages.
The poem describes the perspective of a victim trapped in one of the burning World Trade Center buildings during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The victim sees the events unfolding on television and pleads for help as the situation becomes increasingly dire, but realizes that rescue will not arrive in time. Throughout the poem, the victim's desperation grows as the flames near and his strength fades, culminating in the final line where he acknowledges that he is "failing, flagging."
The narrator picks up a hitchhiker in Leeds who is traveling freely with just a toothbrush. Fed up with his job and pressure from his employer, the narrator grows annoyed with the hitchhiker's carefree lifestyle and beats him violently before leaving him injured on the side of the road. The poem explores the contrast between the hitchhiker's freedom and the narrator's frustration, using imagery and references to nature.
The document is a collection of poems and poetry exercises from a student's poetry anthology. It includes definitions and examples of different poetry forms like acrostics, haikus, cinquains, and more. The student provides their own original poems in each form.
The document provides background information on William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. It discusses that the play was likely written between 1590 and 1596, though the exact date is unknown. It may have been performed for an aristocratic wedding or to celebrate St. John's feast day. Although set in Athens, the play reflects aspects of British society at the time. The language uses rhyming verse, blank verse, and prose to distinguish characters and add comic effects. Midsummer's Eve was believed to be a magical night when fairies and witches held festivals. The document also outlines Shakespeare's use of language, including rhyming verse, blank verse, and prose, and how this
The document discusses a group of amateur actors in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who are craftsmen preparing to perform a play called "Pyramus and Thisbe" at a wedding. It analyzes the language and symbolism used in their play within the play and how their bumbling performance parodies the conventions of tragedy for comedic effect. The craftsmen's botched performance of the tragedy provides commentary on the pretensions of the nobility and acts as a counterpoint to the romantic themes of the main plot.
The document discusses how Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream explores the idea introduced in the first scene - that "the course of true love never did run smooth." It does this by examining how the magic juice affects the four young lovers, causing their love to change rapidly. Their love seems based only on the feelings of the lover under the spell's influence, not on any merits of the beloved. It also looks at the odd romance between Titania and Bottom after she is enchanted. Throughout, Shakespeare highlights the irrational and changeable nature of love, which provides comic situations but also shows love's darker side.
The poem describes a man who picks up a hitchhiker while driving. The man is stressed from work and envious of the hitchhiker's carefree lifestyle. He takes out his frustrations on the hitchhiker, brutally beating him with a weapon and throwing him from the moving car. The man recounts the violent act dispassionately and returns to normal details of the day, highlighting his lack of remorse over killing the hitchhiker.
Elit 17 class 10 end richard iii introduce essay 1jordanlachance
This document provides an agenda and discussion topics for an ELIT 17 Class. The agenda includes recitations, a discussion on final thoughts about Richard III, and an introduction to Essay #1. It then provides details about each item: the recitation topics, instructions for group discussions on homework questions, comparisons of scenes from the Richard III film and play, potential essay topics including on Richard III, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, and guidelines for writing a response to literature. Potential essay prompts are outlined and writing tips are provided. The document concludes with additional questions about MLA formatting and works cited pages.
The poem describes the perspective of a victim trapped in one of the burning World Trade Center buildings during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The victim sees the events unfolding on television and pleads for help as the situation becomes increasingly dire, but realizes that rescue will not arrive in time. Throughout the poem, the victim's desperation grows as the flames near and his strength fades, culminating in the final line where he acknowledges that he is "failing, flagging."
The narrator picks up a hitchhiker in Leeds who is traveling freely with just a toothbrush. Fed up with his job and pressure from his employer, the narrator grows annoyed with the hitchhiker's carefree lifestyle and beats him violently before leaving him injured on the side of the road. The poem explores the contrast between the hitchhiker's freedom and the narrator's frustration, using imagery and references to nature.
Simile is a figure of speech that explicitly compares two unlike things using words like "like" or "as". It adds beauty or humor to writing depending on the comparison. Figures of speech use creative language to convey meaning or have an impressive effect, including similes, metaphors, symbols, metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole, personification, and more. Each figure of speech employs a specific technique such as comparing one thing to another, giving human traits to non-humans, exaggerating truth, or speaking directly to non-living objects.
The poem is written from the perspective of a man trapped in one of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. He is waving a white shirt to try to get the attention of people watching from below. However, he is growing tired as the heat rises and realizes that death is imminent. In the final stanza, his arm has gone numb and his nerves are "sagging" as he fails, with the last word "flagging" carrying a dual meaning of both physically weakening and signaling distress.
The document provides examples of different poetry forms including haiku, cinquain, diamante, free verse, character poems, riddle poems, and limericks. It also includes instructions and guidelines for writing each form. Several poems are provided as examples for each style written by the author and other poets.
This poem discusses the importance of true friendship. It emphasizes that a real friend is trustworthy, provides companionship during lonely times, and serves as a support to lean on during difficult periods. A friend is described as a "special gift of life" and "one of the best things one can ever be." The poem stresses that to be a good friend, one must be selfless rather than motivated by personal gain or fame. Overall, it conveys that friendship can positively change lives when based on trust, loyalty and mutual support.
The document provides learning objectives and success criteria for analyzing the poem "Hitcher" focusing on how it presents conflict through language. Students are asked to identify quotes showing conflict, characterize the narrator and hitchhiker, and explain how the language impacts the reader. For homework, students must write a multi-paragraph response analyzing how Armitage presents violence in the poem using the skills developed.
Hamartia refers to a character flaw or mistake that leads to the downfall of a protagonist. It was first discussed by Aristotle in reference to Greek tragedies. Some key examples of hamartia discussed in the document include Oedipus' hubris and ignorance in killing his father and marrying his mother, Hamlet's indecisiveness in avenging his father's death, and Dr. Faustus' overambitious nature that leads him to sell his soul to the devil. Hamartia serves to elicit pity and fear in audiences by showing how a good person can fall from their own flaws or errors.
The extract is from Simon Armitage's poem "Out of the Blue" about the September 11th terrorist attacks. It narrates the final moments of a victim trapped in one of the burning World Trade Center towers. Through 12 stanzas, the poem establishes the point of view of the victim as he waves desperately for help from a high window, seeing others falling around him, as the heat and flames overwhelm him and he addresses his impending death. The repetitive structure and rhyme scheme lend the poem a sense of relentless inevitability, mirroring the victim's worsening situation until his final plea in the last stanza.
The document is a collection of poems and information about different poetry forms written by a student. It includes examples of acrostics, haikus, cinquains, diamantes, free verse poems, a character poem, and a rap poem about holidays. The student also selects Winnie the Pooh as their favorite poet and includes an example of one of Pooh's poems.
The document discusses several poems by the British poet Simon Armitage. It provides brief summaries of the themes, language, and form of several of Armitage's poems, including "Mother, any distance", "Homecoming", and "Kid". The poems deal with themes of family relationships, childhood, growing up, love, and mortality. They employ first person perspectives and use irregular poetic forms like sonnets and dramatic monologues.
This searchable deck allows teachers to find model sentences that relate to different writing focuses by searching through the file. Students can expand writing skill by modeling their sentence constructions after masters.
The document contains examples of different poetry forms and genres submitted by a student, including acrostics, haikus, cinquains, and free verse poems. It also provides instructions and examples for creating character poems, riddle poems, and rap poems. The student selects Kenn Nesbitt as their favorite poet and explains they like his funny style of poetry.
The document contains various poetry forms and examples submitted by students, including acrostics, haikus, cinquains, and free verse poems. It also provides information on poets like Ken Nesbitt and defines different poetry genres and structures. The student demonstrates their understanding of poetry through original creations in various forms.
This document contains various poetry forms written by Geena and collected from other sources, including Kenn Nesbitt poems. It includes what's poetry, acrostics, haikus, cinquains, diamantes, free verse, and more. Geena provides examples of each form with subjects like chocolate, bubbles, leaves, and flowers. Kenn Nesbitt poems are also included about homework machines and headless towns.
This document contains examples of different poetry forms including haiku, acrostic, cinquain, diamante, free verse, character poem, riddle poem, rapping, and animated poem. It also includes biographical information about the children's poet Kenn Nesbitt and an original poem about working in a pit crew. The student has provided their own examples of many of these poetry forms centered around themes of racing and motorcycles.
This document provides an introduction to comedy for students studying William Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing. It begins with discussion questions about common features, story structure, what makes stories comic, and favorite types of comedy. It then covers definitions of comedy from Aristotle and other sources. Key elements of Greek, Roman, and dramatic comedy are outlined. Students are tasked with discussing these elements and finding examples in Much Ado About Nothing. The document provides context and background information to help students understand different aspects of comedy as a literary genre.
The poem "next to of course god america i" by E.E. Cummings uses satire and ambiguity to mock extreme patriotism. Through the voice of a patriotic speaker, the narrator parodies nationalistic speeches and sentiments. While paying lip service to America, the narrator undermines the speaker's words by removing punctuation, adding nonsensical phrases, and portraying soldiers as "heroic happy dead" to highlight the foolishness of blind patriotism and war. The last line depicts the patriotic speaker drinking water desperately after his impassioned but confusing speech, capturing the hollowness of his rhetoric.
This document is a collection of poems and poetry exercises from a student's poetry anthology. It includes definitions of different poetry forms like acrostics, haikus, cinquains, and diamantes. The student provides examples of each type of poem. The anthology also explores free verse, character poems, riddle poems, and animated poems. It concludes with information about the student's favorite poet, Kenn Nesbitt.
The document contains examples of different poetry forms and genres written by students, including acrostics, haikus, cinquains, diamantes, free verse, repeat poster poems, character poems, riddle poems, and rapping poems. It also provides information and guidelines for creating these types of poems. The student selected Kenn Nesbitt as their favorite poet and included biographical information about him.
Shinead's poetry anthology contains examples of many poetry forms including haiku, cinquain, diamante, free verse, riddles, and more. Various poems are included that were written by Shinead exploring different themes like friendship, animals, and daily life. The anthology also provides information about different poets like Bruce Lansky and includes extra poems that were collected.
The document makes the case for hiring an additional music teacher by providing three key reasons:
1) Studies show that playing music decreases stress and improves overall health and wellness.
2) Students involved in music programs have higher college attendance rates (85%) compared to those not involved in music (40%).
3) Students who participate in extracurricular activities like music programs tend to earn higher lifetime incomes since they are more likely to graduate from college. College graduates earn $500,000 more on average than high school graduates.
Simile is a figure of speech that explicitly compares two unlike things using words like "like" or "as". It adds beauty or humor to writing depending on the comparison. Figures of speech use creative language to convey meaning or have an impressive effect, including similes, metaphors, symbols, metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole, personification, and more. Each figure of speech employs a specific technique such as comparing one thing to another, giving human traits to non-humans, exaggerating truth, or speaking directly to non-living objects.
The poem is written from the perspective of a man trapped in one of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. He is waving a white shirt to try to get the attention of people watching from below. However, he is growing tired as the heat rises and realizes that death is imminent. In the final stanza, his arm has gone numb and his nerves are "sagging" as he fails, with the last word "flagging" carrying a dual meaning of both physically weakening and signaling distress.
The document provides examples of different poetry forms including haiku, cinquain, diamante, free verse, character poems, riddle poems, and limericks. It also includes instructions and guidelines for writing each form. Several poems are provided as examples for each style written by the author and other poets.
This poem discusses the importance of true friendship. It emphasizes that a real friend is trustworthy, provides companionship during lonely times, and serves as a support to lean on during difficult periods. A friend is described as a "special gift of life" and "one of the best things one can ever be." The poem stresses that to be a good friend, one must be selfless rather than motivated by personal gain or fame. Overall, it conveys that friendship can positively change lives when based on trust, loyalty and mutual support.
The document provides learning objectives and success criteria for analyzing the poem "Hitcher" focusing on how it presents conflict through language. Students are asked to identify quotes showing conflict, characterize the narrator and hitchhiker, and explain how the language impacts the reader. For homework, students must write a multi-paragraph response analyzing how Armitage presents violence in the poem using the skills developed.
Hamartia refers to a character flaw or mistake that leads to the downfall of a protagonist. It was first discussed by Aristotle in reference to Greek tragedies. Some key examples of hamartia discussed in the document include Oedipus' hubris and ignorance in killing his father and marrying his mother, Hamlet's indecisiveness in avenging his father's death, and Dr. Faustus' overambitious nature that leads him to sell his soul to the devil. Hamartia serves to elicit pity and fear in audiences by showing how a good person can fall from their own flaws or errors.
The extract is from Simon Armitage's poem "Out of the Blue" about the September 11th terrorist attacks. It narrates the final moments of a victim trapped in one of the burning World Trade Center towers. Through 12 stanzas, the poem establishes the point of view of the victim as he waves desperately for help from a high window, seeing others falling around him, as the heat and flames overwhelm him and he addresses his impending death. The repetitive structure and rhyme scheme lend the poem a sense of relentless inevitability, mirroring the victim's worsening situation until his final plea in the last stanza.
The document is a collection of poems and information about different poetry forms written by a student. It includes examples of acrostics, haikus, cinquains, diamantes, free verse poems, a character poem, and a rap poem about holidays. The student also selects Winnie the Pooh as their favorite poet and includes an example of one of Pooh's poems.
The document discusses several poems by the British poet Simon Armitage. It provides brief summaries of the themes, language, and form of several of Armitage's poems, including "Mother, any distance", "Homecoming", and "Kid". The poems deal with themes of family relationships, childhood, growing up, love, and mortality. They employ first person perspectives and use irregular poetic forms like sonnets and dramatic monologues.
This searchable deck allows teachers to find model sentences that relate to different writing focuses by searching through the file. Students can expand writing skill by modeling their sentence constructions after masters.
The document contains examples of different poetry forms and genres submitted by a student, including acrostics, haikus, cinquains, and free verse poems. It also provides instructions and examples for creating character poems, riddle poems, and rap poems. The student selects Kenn Nesbitt as their favorite poet and explains they like his funny style of poetry.
The document contains various poetry forms and examples submitted by students, including acrostics, haikus, cinquains, and free verse poems. It also provides information on poets like Ken Nesbitt and defines different poetry genres and structures. The student demonstrates their understanding of poetry through original creations in various forms.
This document contains various poetry forms written by Geena and collected from other sources, including Kenn Nesbitt poems. It includes what's poetry, acrostics, haikus, cinquains, diamantes, free verse, and more. Geena provides examples of each form with subjects like chocolate, bubbles, leaves, and flowers. Kenn Nesbitt poems are also included about homework machines and headless towns.
This document contains examples of different poetry forms including haiku, acrostic, cinquain, diamante, free verse, character poem, riddle poem, rapping, and animated poem. It also includes biographical information about the children's poet Kenn Nesbitt and an original poem about working in a pit crew. The student has provided their own examples of many of these poetry forms centered around themes of racing and motorcycles.
This document provides an introduction to comedy for students studying William Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing. It begins with discussion questions about common features, story structure, what makes stories comic, and favorite types of comedy. It then covers definitions of comedy from Aristotle and other sources. Key elements of Greek, Roman, and dramatic comedy are outlined. Students are tasked with discussing these elements and finding examples in Much Ado About Nothing. The document provides context and background information to help students understand different aspects of comedy as a literary genre.
The poem "next to of course god america i" by E.E. Cummings uses satire and ambiguity to mock extreme patriotism. Through the voice of a patriotic speaker, the narrator parodies nationalistic speeches and sentiments. While paying lip service to America, the narrator undermines the speaker's words by removing punctuation, adding nonsensical phrases, and portraying soldiers as "heroic happy dead" to highlight the foolishness of blind patriotism and war. The last line depicts the patriotic speaker drinking water desperately after his impassioned but confusing speech, capturing the hollowness of his rhetoric.
This document is a collection of poems and poetry exercises from a student's poetry anthology. It includes definitions of different poetry forms like acrostics, haikus, cinquains, and diamantes. The student provides examples of each type of poem. The anthology also explores free verse, character poems, riddle poems, and animated poems. It concludes with information about the student's favorite poet, Kenn Nesbitt.
The document contains examples of different poetry forms and genres written by students, including acrostics, haikus, cinquains, diamantes, free verse, repeat poster poems, character poems, riddle poems, and rapping poems. It also provides information and guidelines for creating these types of poems. The student selected Kenn Nesbitt as their favorite poet and included biographical information about him.
Shinead's poetry anthology contains examples of many poetry forms including haiku, cinquain, diamante, free verse, riddles, and more. Various poems are included that were written by Shinead exploring different themes like friendship, animals, and daily life. The anthology also provides information about different poets like Bruce Lansky and includes extra poems that were collected.
The document makes the case for hiring an additional music teacher by providing three key reasons:
1) Studies show that playing music decreases stress and improves overall health and wellness.
2) Students involved in music programs have higher college attendance rates (85%) compared to those not involved in music (40%).
3) Students who participate in extracurricular activities like music programs tend to earn higher lifetime incomes since they are more likely to graduate from college. College graduates earn $500,000 more on average than high school graduates.
The document provides background information on the band Goo Goo Dolls. It states that their song "Iris" was number one on the Billboard charts for eighteen weeks. It also notes that the band was originally called the "Sex Maggots" but changed their name because people in Buffalo did not like it, and that their new name came from a toy ad for a "Goo Goo Doll".
This document provides examples of the correct usage of "your" versus "you're" and "to" versus "too". "Your" shows ownership or possession, such as "your house" or "your shoes". "You're" is a contraction that means "you are". "To" is used to indicate movement or action towards something, while "too" means "also" or "excessively". The document gives several examples to illustrate the proper context for each word.
This document provides advice on accomplishing goals by prioritizing health, developing relationships, finding balance and reducing stress, while also making a positive contribution to one's community.
The document provides sample introductions and outlines for convincing a principal to enact a school-wide recycling program and convincing parents to allow getting a driver's license early. It discusses using facts, anecdotes, descriptions, questions, and quotations to draw the reader in and make the case. Specific examples are given like the amount of waste the school produces daily and how getting a license early could alleviate parents' burdens and allow contributing financially.
1) El documento presenta un curso sobre Big Data con MongoDB, Hadoop y Spark que cubre conceptos y herramientas para el almacenamiento y análisis de datos masivos. 2) El curso dura 24 horas y cubre temas como operaciones básicas en MongoDB, agregación de datos, desarrollo de aplicaciones con MongoDB, componentes de Hadoop y Spark, y arquitectura de soluciones de Business Intelligence. 3) La empresa BS Grupo ofrece el curso y tiene experiencia capacitando a más de 10,000 profesionales de América Latina en los últimos
The document summarizes the author's experience with online journaling from 2003 to present. It describes their use of LiveJournal, DeadJournal, and Tumblr to share poems and layout designs. It also discusses the author's initial skepticism of Twitter but later acceptance of it after using it for a class. The document demonstrates the author's technological growth from online journaling platforms to social media and highlights some new skills learned in the current semester.
The document summarizes the author's experience with online journaling from 2003 to present. It describes their use of LiveJournal, DeadJournal, and Tumblr to share poems and layout designs. It also discusses the author's initial skepticism of Twitter but later acceptance of it after using it for a class. The document demonstrates the author's technological growth from online journaling platforms to social media and highlights some new skills learned in the current semester.
The document instructs students to play games on the Vocabulary and Spelling City (VSC) app by logging into Edmodo and clicking on an icon resembling a phone or calculator, and that the student will receive 1 point of extra credit for each game played on VSC.
1. The document instructs students to play games on the Vocabulary and Spelling City (VSC) app to earn extra credit points.
2. To access the VSC app, students should log into Edmodo and click on the icon at the top left of their screen resembling a phone or calculator.
3. The teacher will give students one point of extra credit for each game played on VSC.
This document defines and provides examples of several types of figurative language: simile, personification, metaphor, anaphora, allusion, and alliteration. Simile uses like or as to compare two unlike things. Personification gives human traits to non-living things. Metaphor directly states one thing is another. Anaphora repeats words at the beginning of lines for emphasis. Allusion indirectly references history or literature. Alliteration repeats initial consonant sounds.
This document provides information about Zegul kayaks, including their various construction methods and kayak models. Some key details include:
- Zegul kayaks use advanced construction methods like A-Core, 3D C-Core, Rock Solid, and full carbon construction to provide high performance.
- Various kayak models are described like the Baidarka, Velocity, Searocket, and Greenland, along with their sizes, weights, storage capacities and features.
- Construction methods provide durability, stiffness and weight savings through techniques like vacuum infusion and different fabric layers in the hull.
This document discusses how to make comparisons using adjectives in English. It explains that one-syllable adjectives form the comparative with "-er" and superlative with "-est". Two-syllable adjectives can also take "-er" or can be compared as longer adjectives by using "more" and "most". Some irregular adjectives like "good", "bad", and "old" have unique comparative and superlative forms. Examples are provided to demonstrate how to change sentences to the comparative and superlative forms.
This document provides a review of figurative language concepts covered in an 8th grade Language Arts class, including simile, personification, metaphor, anaphora, allusion, assonance, and examples of each. It also discusses appositives and provides examples of identifying similes, metaphors, and personification. The review is intended to help students prepare for a semester 1 exam.
This document provides a review of figurative language devices taught in 8th grade Language Arts, including simile, personification, metaphor, anaphora, allusion, assonance, and appositive. It defines each device and provides examples from literature and speeches. It also includes exercises asking students to identify devices in passages and combine sentences using appositives. The review is intended to help students study for their semester 1 exam in Language Arts.
Figures of speech are rhetorical devices that use words in distinctive ways to achieve special effects. Some common figures of speech are metaphor, simile, personification, and irony. A metaphor is a direct comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as". A simile directly compares two things using "like" or "as". Personification gives human qualities to objects or ideas. Irony is when the literal meaning contrasts with the intended meaning. Figures of speech help make writing and conversation more interesting and impactful.
This document defines and provides examples of various figures of speech. It discusses alliteration, anaphora, epiphora/epistrophe, metaphors, similes, antithesis, apostrophe, chiasmus, paradox, euphemisms, hyperbole, irony, metonymy, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, and synecdoche. Each term is defined and an example is given to illustrate how that figure of speech is used.
This document summarizes various stylistic devices that operate on different levels of language, including sounds, meaning, composition, and words/sentences. It discusses figures of speech and rhetorical devices such as alliteration, metaphor, simile, irony and more. Examples are provided to illustrate how each device is used. The document concludes by recommending students learn these devices for an exam and provides a link for additional reference.
Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or vice versa. It can involve using a part to refer to the whole, a whole thing referring to a part, a general class name denoting a specific instance, or referring to materials something is made of. Some examples given include referring to people by a single characteristic like "the beard" for an older man, calling workers "hands", or saying "the law" to mean police officers.
The summary provides the key definition of synecdoche as a figure of speech where a part represents the whole or vice versa, and gives some brief illustrative examples to highlight this concept in 3 sentences.
This document provides an overview of various figures of speech including simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and alliteration. It defines each technique and provides examples. Key points made include:
- A simile directly compares two things using like or as.
- A metaphor implicitly compares two things by stating one thing is the other.
- Personification gives human qualities to non-human things.
- Hyperbole exaggerates for emphasis through overstatement.
- Onomatopoeia uses words that imitate the sounds they describe.
- Alliteration repeats initial consonant sounds for fun or emphasis.
The document discusses various forms and elements of poetry including couplet, tercet, quatrain, acrostic, haiku, senryu, concrete poem, free verse, and limerick. It also covers poetic devices such as imagery, diction, rhyme, rhythm, figures of speech, theme, and tone. Key elements of different poetry forms are defined such as the line and syllable structure of haiku and senryu. Literary devices used in poetry to achieve certain effects are also explained.
The document provides definitions and examples of various literary devices and terms including metaphor, rhyme scheme, stanza, couplet, quatrain, refrain, personification, symbol, hyperbole, simile, flashback, point of view, plot, climax, protagonist, antagonist, alliteration, and historical and mythological allusions. It also gives examples of types of conflicts such as internal and external conflicts.
The document provides definitions and examples of literary devices and concepts including simile, imagery, internal conflict, and external conflict. It defines simile as comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as" and provides examples. It defines imagery as descriptive or figurative language that appeals to senses. Examples of imagery are provided from books. It defines internal conflict as a psychological struggle within a character's mind that creates plot suspense, and provides an example from "Raymond's Run". It defines external conflict as a struggle between a character and an outside force, like nature or another character, that drives the plot, and provides an example also from "Raymond's Run".
This document provides an overview of the lyric essay form. It describes the genre as a hybrid between poetry and nonfiction that emphasizes language, imagery, and experimentation with form. Key characteristics include a focus on writing style over argument or structure. The document also gives examples of common lyric essay forms, such as prose poems, flash fiction, collages, braided essays, and hermit crab structures. It concludes by assigning students to write their own lyric essay using one of the exercises provided.
The document defines and provides examples of various poetic and literary terms including metaphor, simile, symbolism, personification, and rhyme schemes. It discusses concepts like setting, plot, point of view, imagery, theme, and tone. Examples are given to illustrate different terms like onomatopoeia, alliteration, and synecdoche.
The document defines and provides examples of various poetic and literary terms including metaphor, simile, symbolism, personification, and rhyme schemes. It explores concepts like setting, plot, point of view, imagery, theme, and tone. Examples are given to illustrate different terms like onomatopoeia, alliteration, and synecdoche.
This document discusses the lyric essay form of creative nonfiction. It begins by explaining the origins of the term and defining some key characteristics, such as an emphasis on language, imagery, experimentation with form, and a focus on expression over argument. The document then examines some common forms used in lyric essays, such as flash fiction, prose poems, collages, braided essays, and hermit crab structures. It provides examples to illustrate each form. The document concludes by announcing an upcoming assignment for students to write their own lyric essays.
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This document provides definitions and examples of various types of figures of speech, including:
- Alliteration, anaphora, assonance, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, simile, metonymy, onomatopoeia, paradox, personification, pun, synecdoche, understatement, antithesis, euphemism, oxymoron, and tautology. It also discusses allegory, aporia, and provides examples of how these figures of speech are used in literature and speech.
This document defines and provides examples of various figures of speech including simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, irony, and others. It examines how each figure of speech makes comparisons between objects, gives human traits to non-human things, exaggerates ideas, or involves contradictions to convey meaning in a vivid, interesting way.
This document defines and provides examples of various poetic and literary terms including:
- Allusion - A reference to a historical figure, place, or event.
- Metaphor - An implied comparison between two basically different things that is not introduced with "like" or "as".
- Hyperbole - A great exaggeration to emphasize strong feeling.
- Personification - Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
- Plot - A series of events that present and resolve a conflict, telling the story.
- Symbol - Something concrete that stands for something abstract, like an idea.
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3. simile
A literary device that compares one thing to another
using “like” or “as”
Examples: “The girls were like two peas in a pod.”
“Don’t treat me like a puppet on a string.”
“His temper was as explosive as a volcano.”
4. personification
Def.: a literary device where the writer gives human
characteristics to non-living things.
“While my Guitar Gently Weeps.”
“The sky looked angry, with huge black clouds and jagged
lightning.”
“The car choked and sputtered, spewing smoke, dying a
slow death in the middle of the busy highway.”
5. metaphor
A metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things in
which one thing is said to be another thing or called by
the name of another thing.
Example from Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”:
“My love is a blinding, burning flame.
The sun, a demon’s eye.”
“ Soft! What light through yonder window
breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun.”
6. assonance
Repetition of vowel sound(s) of two or more words in
close proximity.
Examples: "The mass of men lead lives of
quietdesperation.” (Henry David Thoreau, Walden)
Listen to the long “I” sound in those two words. It is pleasing to the ear, and
more subtle than out-and-out rhyming.
7. assonance
Assonance is similar to rhyming, but a bit more sophisticated, and is
often used in speeches and “regular” prose writing to make those
types of writing more pleasing to the ear and more poetic-
sounding.Example from “I Have a Dream” speech:
“…shake the foundations of our nation…”
Read that line out loud. What vowel sound do you hear repeated three
times? Click again for the answer.
The long “A” sound. Read it again. It sounds rhythmic, almost like a song.
8. assonance
Sometimes songwriters and poets do it, too.
“You better lose yourself in the music,
the moment you own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to
blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo.”
The assonance in the first line is the “oo” sound.
The assonance in the second line is the long “O”
sound.
10. Which line from Oranges contains personification?
a. We entered, the tiny bell bringing a saleslady down a
narrow aisle of goods.
b. Fog hanging like old coats between the trees.
c. I peeled my orange that was so bright against the gray
of December, someone would have thought I was
making a fire in my hands.
11. Which line from Oranges containsimagery?
a. We entered, the tiny bell bringing a saleslady down a
narrow aisle of goods.
b. Fog hanging like old coats between the trees.
c. I peeled my orange that was so bright against the gray
of December, someone would have thought I was
making a fire in my hands.
The reader can “see” the orange against the gray sky- a
very vivid “picture” is created so the reader can see the
image clearly.
12. Which line from Oranges contains a simile?
a. A few cars hissing past.
b. The lady’s eyes met mine, and held them.
c. Frost cracking beneath my steps.
d. I turned to the candies, tiered like bleachers.
Explain:
13. Which line from Oranges contains a simile?
a. A few cars hissing past.
b. The lady’s eyes met mine, and held them.
c. Frost cracking beneath my steps.
d. I turned to the candies, tiered like bleachers.
Explain: In order for the reader to be able to picture in
their “mind’s eye” how the candies were arranged on
the shelf, she compares them to “bleachers.”
14. Which line from My Brother Sam is Dead best
illustrates an internal conflict?
a. I didn’t know who to believe: my father, who I’d
always trusted, or Sam, my idol.
b. If you don’t slaughter those cows soon, they’re
bound to get stolen.
c. War turns men into animals.
d. Give me back that gun before I tell father on you!
Explain:
15. Which line from My Brother Sam is Dead best illustrates an
internal conflict?
a. I didn’t know who to believe: my father, who I’d always trusted,
or Sam, my idol.
b. If you don’t slaughter those cows soon, they’re bound to get
stolen.
c. War turns men into animals.
d. Give me back that gun before I tell father on you!
Explain: “Internal” means “inside.” An “internal conflict” takes place
inside the mind of the character. Here, he can’t decide who to
believe about the war.
16. Which line below best summarizes the climax of My
Brother Sam is Dead ?
a. Sam is taken in as a cattle thief.
b. Father and Tim travel to Verplanks Point and are
held up by cowboys.
c. Tim races to free his brother Sam and is shot in the
process of doing so.
d. Tim and his mother move to Pennsylvania and move
on with their lives.
Explain:
17. My Brother Sam is Dead coversthe Revolutionary War, in
which the British fought against __.
a. Nazis b. Patriots c. Lobsterbacksd. Loyalists
18. My Brother Sam is Dead coversthe Revolutionary War, in
which the British fought against __.
a. Nazis b. Patriotsc. Lobsterbacksd. Loyalists
19. The title, My Brother Sam is Dead is an example of foreshadowing.
a. True b. False
Explain:
Tim fights Betsy for the secret letter is an example of an external conflict.
a. True b. False
Explain:
Hurricane Force is a fiction book.
a. True b. False
Paraphrasing means to put piece of information into your own words.
a. True b. False
20. The title, My Brother Sam is Dead is an example of foreshadowing.
a. True b. False
Explain: When an writer hints at something that is later to come in the
story, that is called “foreshadowing.” This is more than a hint, but it is an
example of foreshadowing.
Tim fights Betsy for the secret letter is an example of an external conflict.
a. True b. False
Explain: An “external” conflict is a conflict between a character and
another person or group of people, or nature.
Hurricane Force is a fiction book.
a. True b. False
Fiction= “fake”, Nonfiction= “not fake”
Paraphrasing means to put piece of information into your own words.
a. True b. False
Paraphrasing helps you do two things: keep from plagiarizing someone
else’s writing AND simplifying an idea so that it is easier to understand. It
is basically summarizing someone else’s writing in your own words.
21. Examples
Fiction: Nonfiction:
“Star Wars” Hurricane Force
My Brother Sam is Dead A Child Called “It”
“Broken Chain”
magazine articles, biographies
“Cinderella”
Paths to Peace
“Super 8”
textbooks, newspapers
The Giver
“Supersize Me”
22. Similes from
Hurricane Force
“The metal garage door…buckled like a prizefighter taking a
punch to the midsection.”
“…I watched as a dangling traffic light shot across an intersection
like a bullet pass…”
“…windows shattered and glass sprayed down on the sidewalk
like lethal snow.”
“…a big sheet of twisted tin came skidding and tumbling at me
like an out-of-control toboggan.”
23. Personification
“Howling gusts...” (The wind may sound like an animal howling,
but wind is incapable of the human/animal act of howling.)
“The wind was…chewing at office buildings…” (Does the wind
have teeth? Wind can’t actually CHEW. This is a human/animal
characteristic.)
“The metal garage door…buckled like a prizefighter taking a
punch to the midsection.”
24. Alliteration
The repetition of the initial (first) consonant sound
of several words in a line or sentence. Does NOT
have to be the same letter, just the same sound.
“…strips that sailed out of sight…”
“…wrecking the city, setting the stage for massive
flooding…”
25. Assonance
repetition of a vowel sound in multiple words in a line or sentence
Assonance is NOT rhyming.
Rhyme= cat fat sat hat mat flat
Assonance= cat has map tab flack apple
Rhyme= pit, sit, kit, lit, fit, bit, hit, mitt, nit, pit
Assonance= pit, fig, kick, limb, sting, pink, tip, ping
Rhyme= dug, plug, hug, mug, pug, tug
Assonance= tug, flung, ton, club, duck, suds, cuff
26. Find the assonance:
“…a big sheet of twisted tin came skidding and
tumbling at me like an out-of-control toboggan.”
(Read it out loud. What consonant sound do you hear
repeated?)
27. Find the assonance:
“…a big sheet of twisted tin came skidding and
tumbling at me like an out-of-control toboggan.”
28. …and not JUST assonance
and simile, but
also…alliteration!
“…a big sheet of twisted tin came
skidding and tumbling at me like an
out-of-control toboggan.”
29. Compare:
“…a big sheet of twisted tin came skidding and
tumbling at me like an out-of-control toboggan.”
“….an enormous piece of metal came flying at me.”
30. Personification, Simile or
Metaphor?
Playing chess with Ashley is like trying to outsmart a
computer.
Simile
38. Sentences with
“Interrupters”
The apple, red and
crisp, plunked me on my
head as it fell.
The meat-eating
dinosaur, stumpy-armed and
big-headed, devoured the
illiterate fool.
39. The pale vampire, long black
hair framing his angular face,
pounced on the helpless fox.
The tall vampire, starving for
blood, fanged his innocent
prey.
40. What is an “appositive”?
Appositive: a big fan of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers -
What does the appositive do?
Appositives are dependent clauses- they cannot
stand alone without the rest of the sentence; they
DEPEND on the rest of the sentence to express a
complete thought.
41. Appositive Practice
My dog, , chases the mailman every day.
My dog, a frisky poodle, chases the mailman every day.
My dog, energetic and territorial, chases the mailman
every day.
My dog, baring his teeth ferociously, chases the
mailman every day.
42. Add in the Appositive
My dog, , ran to bite the mailman.
My dog, a huge pit bull, ran to bite the
mailman.
My dog, furious and foaming at the mouth,
ran to bite the mailman.
43. Add in the Appositive
Regan Mealy, an intelligent blonde in the third row,
enjoys picking her nose.
Trey Haymore, a budding artist, likes to draw tanks.
Trey Haymore, talented and driven, likes to draw tanks.
44. Sentence Combining With
Appositives
Michael was a dedicated Tampa Bay Bucs fan. He
attended every home game, even when they were
having a losing season.
Michael, a dedicated Tampa Bay Bucs fan, attended
every home game, even when they were having a
losing season.
45. Combine the following sentences to create one sentence
with an appositive:
1. “Back to the Future” is one of my favorite movies of all
time.
“Back to the Future” starred Michael J. Fox.
“Back to the Future,” one of my favorite movies, stars
Michael J. Fox.
2. Haile Middle School is an “A”-rated school.
Haile is located in Bradenton, Florida.
3. The Florida Gators are Mrs. Chioffe’s favorite football
team.
The Florida Gators are the #1 rated team in the
country.
46. collaborate
Def: work together
Syn: (team up, join forces)
Ant: (work alone)
Sent: “Several students plan to collaborate on a geology
project for the annual science fair.”
48. Sample Prompt #3:
The world is becoming more and more aware of the effects of pollution
and excess waste on the environment.
Write to convince your principal to enact a mandatory school-wide
recycling program.
49. Sample Prompt #4:
Florida has recently changed the legal driving age to 15. Write to
convince your parents to allow you to obtain your license a year early.
50. Now, let’s look at some ways to
“grab” the reader (in this
case, Mrs. Kerley).
Remember, we need to convince
her that recycling is the only way
to go, the best choice for our
school. Let’s draw her in from
the very first sentence.
51. Fact:
Every day, our school fills
up an entire industrial-
sized dumpster with waste
that could be recycled.
52. Fact:
Every year, you chauffer Mitch back and
forth to school 360 times, adding up to about
two and a half weeks out of your life spent on
the road. What if I told you that I could relieve
you of this burden? If you allow me to obtain
my license a year early, I will not only be able
to drive Mitch back and forth to school for you,
but I will also be able to do many other errands
for you to free up your time, as well as get a
job and contribute financially to the
Charbonneau family.
53. Fact:
Every year, you chauffer Mitch back and forth
to school 360 times, adding up to about two
and a half weeks out of your life spent on the
road.
54. Anecdote:
Every day, I walk by the dumpster that
sits behind the school just as the janitor
is heaving a heavy, black plastic bag
over the edge. The bag, stuffed full of
potentially-recyclable materials, is
headed for the city dump. The
janitor, exhausted, trudges back into the
building to fetch the next load.
55. Anecdote:
One hundred and eighty mornings every year go something like this for
you: drag Mitch out of bed, kicking and screaming, force-feed him a bowl
of cereal, sift through his room to find a clean pair of pants, then push
him out the front door towards the car.You are then trapped in the car
with Mitch the Whiner for fifteen minutes of complete torture. I may not be
able to help out much with the part before you get his lazy butt out the
door, but if you allow me to get my license a year early, I can definitely
help out with the driving. I will also be able to get a job and not only
contribute to the family income, but save for my future, as well.
56. Description:
Picture this: The humidity in Bradenton is soaring, just like the
temperature. Just twenty years ago, people would have taken refuge at
the beach, body-surfing in the crystal-blue water. But that is the past.
Today, the air over Bradenton is thick and brown, like a heavy blanket.
The water is now so heavily polluted that visiting the beach is forbidden.
Instead of enjoying outdoor activities, Bradentonians are trapped inside.
57. Description:
Imagine this, if you will: it is a Monday morning, the sun is
streaming through the window behind your bed, gently
prodding you from a restful night’s sleep. You roll over in
bed and glance at the clock; it reads 10 a.m. You stretch
and sit up in bed; the aroma of coffee beckons you from the
kitchen. The house is quiet; all you can hear is the gentle
hum of the air conditioner. What dreamland is this? If you
allow me to obtain my license at fifteen, I can deliver my
loud, annoying siblings safely to school, and you can sleep
in and wake refreshed every morning. I will also be able to
get a job and contribute to the family income in numerous
ways.
58. Question:
“Have you ever thought about how
instituting a mandatory recycling
program could impact the
environment?”
59. Question:
Wouldn’t it make your life much more pleasant if you didn’t have
to drag Mitch back and forth to school every day? Have you ever
fantasized about waking up in the morning to the gentle prodding
of the sunlight and coffee beckoning you from downstairs? If you
allow me to obtain my license a year early, I can make all of these
dreams come true for you. There are numerous benefits to you
allowing me to begin driving, and they are not limited to saving
you the dreadful trip to school with Mitch the Whiner and
lovely, peaceful mornings. I will also be able to contribute to the
family income, which will have many positive benefits for the
Pendley Family.
60. Question:
Wouldn’t it make your life much more pleasant if you didn’t have
to drag Mitch back and forth to school every day? To not have to
spend what adds up to two and a half weeks of your life every
year on the road? If this sounds appealing to you, then please
consider allowing me to obtain my driver’s license a year early. In
addition to saving you the annoying thirty minutes in the car every
day with Mitch the Whiner, I will also be able to run errands for
you, freeing up your time for other, more enjoyable pursuits. Also,
I will finally be able to get a job and earn money for the things that
I want and contribute to the family’s income.
61. Quotation:
"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival." Writer Wendell Berry’s
wise words sum up exactly why you should institute a
mandatory recycling program here at Haile.
62. Quotation:
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” You
will be able to take these wise words of Ovid and bring them to
life if you allow me to get my license a year early. How? By
allowing me this privilege, I will be able to drop Mitch off at
school every day, enabling you to sleep in and finally, after all of
these years, catch up on thousands of hours of lost sleep.
Additionally, I will be able to get a job and contribute in many
different ways to the income of Pendley Family.
65. “THE MRS.”
a strategy to use in persuasive writing
TIME- saves time, helps the reader have more time for other things
HEALTH- improves health, reduces stress
EDUCATION- improves education, aids understanding
MONEY- saves money, helps the reader to make more money
RESPONSIBILITY- remind the reader of their responsibility as an individual
SAFETY- increases safety, is a safety factor, saves lives
66. Example Prompt: A new law has
passed and teens now have the
opportunity to drive a year earlier
than before. Persuade your parents
to allow you to get your license a
year early.
67. TIME
Letting me drive a year early
will save you time.
You will now have extra time
to spend doing your favorite
hobbies.
68. Health
Your health-Spending less time on
the roads will decrease your stress level
and improve your overall health.
My health- I will be able to drive
myself to football practice which keeps
me healthy and out of trouble.
70. Money
As a driver, I will be able to get
a job and help contribute
financially to the family.
71. Respect/Responsibility
Being a driver will help me become
more responsible as a young adult.
I will gain responsibility with more
independence on the road.
72. Safety
It will be much safer for me to
responsibly drive myself, than to ride in
a car with my friends.
Riding my bike to school on a busy
highway is dangerous; I will be much
safer in my protective vehicle.
73. Sample Prompt #2:
Your school is planning to add a
teacher in one of the following areas:
art, music, or PE. Write to convince
your principal to hire a teacher in the
field of your choice.
74. Can you identify the strategy?
“Studies have shown that
music, whether listened to or
played, decreases stress, which has a
direct impact on overall wellness.”
health
75. “Additionally, the general health of
your students has a very strong
correlation to their academic
performance.”
education
76. “One of the most important reasons that you should hire
an additional music teacher is that it is proven that
students who are involved in music programs have an
85% college attendance rate, as opposed to those not
involved in music, who only go on to attend college 40%
of the time.”
Statistic/e
ducation
77. “In the long run, students who are involved in
extra curricular activities and music
programs have a much higher income
because they have graduated from college.
College graduates, on average earn
$500,000 more than those who graduate
from high school and go straight to a job or
career. ”
Education/mone
y
78. “When faced with such compelling reasons, how can you
not make the right choice? As principal, it is your moral
and ethical duty to make the best choices for the
students, and there is only one choice to make: hire an
additional music teacher.”
responsibility
80. .
Prompt: Write to convince students why either math skills
or language arts skills are more important in life.
81. Read the following leads for the prompt, and identify
which of the “FADQuQu” strategies is/are being
used.
82. Look all around you. From tall, intricately designed
skyscrapers to ultra fuel-efficient cars to computers that
can do everything from download your favorite music to
recording data from far-off planets. What do they have
in common? They were all designed by mathematics.
Description followed by a question
83. In today’s economy, finding a well-paying job is next to
impossible. In fact, the unemployment rate in America
is at its highest since 1975. Believe it or not, having a
strong vocabulary may be the advantage that pushes
you past the other applicant for the next job you
interview for. The skills that you acquire in Language
Arts are essential to almost every aspect of your
life, from the ability to relax and enjoy a classic novel to
writing a resume that will land you your dream job.
facts
84. Picture this: you have worked your fingers to the bone for
fifty years for a boss who made your life a living you
know what. You now are ready to retire and buy your
dream home. But wait! You have managed to save
only a measly three hundred dollars over the course of
your lifetime. Now you will be forced to live on a
monthly Social Security check that will not even cover
your health expenses, let alone an around-the-world
cruise or that beautiful log home in the Smoky
Mountains. Believe it or not, the math skills that you
take the time to learn today will affect you for the rest of
your life.
anecdote (prediction)
85. Prompt:
Situation: Each year, the overall quality and nutrition of the food
in your school cafeteria has declined due to budget cuts.
Task: Write to convince your principal to allocate more funds to
the school lunch program to improve the menu.
Your two main arguments will be HEALTH of the students and
ACADEMIC IMPROVEMENTS (better grades, higher level of
learning, higher FCAT scores and even better classroom
behavior).
86. Are you aware that 35% of
teens in America are now
considered clinically obese
due not only to inactivity, but
also to a diet that is high in fat
and calories?
A statistic that is part of a question
87. Picture this: a student walks through the halls after his fat and
calorie-laden lunch, his energy levels so low that he can
barely make it to class. He doesn’t have the mental clarity
to focus on the lesson of the day, instead, he stares numbly
at the wall. Now, picture this: after a healthy meal of fresh
fruits and vegetables with a bit of lean protein, that same
student is focused and ready to learn. He walks quickly to
his classroom, energized and ready to learn. He, along with
his classmates, is focused and absorbs the material well.
Anecdote
88. My Grandma Betty, my mother’s
mother and probably one of
the most intelligent people I
have ever known, always said,
“An apple a day keeps the
doctor away.”
Quotation