The document provides instructions for an activity called "Crumpled Paper Ball" where participants write short stories by adding sentences onto crumpled pieces of paper that are thrown and collected. It also includes information about the literary devices of simile and metaphor, providing definitions and examples.

1. Crumpled Paper Ball
• Take out a piece of scratch paper.
• Take 1 minute to write an introductory sentence giving
a real-world setting.
• Crumple up the piece of paper. Throw the paper!
• Pick up one of the papers. On that paper, take 2 minutes
to introduce a fantastical element.
• Crumple and throw!
• Pick up another paper that you haven’t written on yet.
Take 2 minute to write plenitude.
• Crumple and throw!
• Take 2 minutes to finish the story.

2. Literary Terms: Simile
•A figure of speech that makes a
direct comparison between two
unlike things, using a word
such as like, as, than, or
resembles.

3. Simile Examples
• “cute as a kitten,” comparing the way someone looks to the way a
kitten looks
• “as busy as a bee” comparing someone’s level of energy to a fast-
flying bee
• "as happy as a clam" comparing someone's happiness to the
contentment of a clam
• "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going
to get." comparing the uncertainty of life to the uncertainty of
choosing a chocolate from a box
• "She was as anxious as ants on a hot wok" comparing a person's
nervousness to an ant's nervousness in a dangerous situation
• "as clear as water" comparing something being so obvious to the
clarity of water
• “he weighed more than any dead man they had ever known,
almost as much as a horse”

4. Literary Terms: Metaphor
•Definition: A figure of speech
that makes a comparison
between two unlike things
without the use of such specific
words of comparison as like,
as, than, or resembles.

5. Metaphor Examples
• Broken heart - Your heart is not literally broken into pieces; you just
feel hurt and sad.
• He is the apple of my eye - There is, of course, no real apple in a
person's eye. The "apple" is someone beloved and held dear.
• Feel blue - No one actually ever feels like the color blue, although
many people say they are "feeling blue" to mean they are feeling sad.
• Covering one's ears to steal a bell - To deceive yourself
• Rollercoaster of emotions - A rollercoaster of emotions doesn't exist
anywhere, so when people are on a rollercoaster of emotions, they
are simply experiencing lots of ups and downs.
• “After midnight the whistling of the wind died down and the sea
fell into its Wednesday drowsiness”

6. Metaphor vs Simile
• http://www.yourdictionary.com/index.php/pdf/articles/95.
differencesmetaphorssimiles.pdf

7. Groups
• Get into your lit circle groups.
• Share your quotes for magical
realism and theme.
• After sharing, come up with at
least 1 discussion question.

8. HOMEWORK
• READING: (Period 1) Bless Me, Ultima
C11 p106-121
• SIMILE and METAPHOR:
• Quote 1 example of metaphor with page
number and 1 example of simile with page
number from the novel to put on your GO
Literary Terms.

9. HOMEWORK
• READING: (Period 2, 3, 5) The
House of the Spirits C4 p124-141
• SIMILE and METAPHOR:
• Quote 1 example of metaphor with
page number and 1 example of simile
with page number from the novel to put
on your GO Literary Terms.