Figurative Language3 Types of figurative language are:

•Metaphor, a comparison of 2 things not using like or as•Simile, comparison of two things using like or as•Personification, the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

METAPHORE

“If every life is a river…” pg. 1 Incantation

SIMILE

“I saw the way the soldiers treated this man. As if he were a bird caught in a snare made of his own bones.” pg. 8 Incantation

Personification

…a monster set loose in our midst. The fire was his breath, the jeers all around were his snarls.” pg. 11 Incantation

Hyperbole

An exaggeration so great no one would ever believe it.

He made my skin crawl.

Remember the 6 active reading strategies…..

• Predict

• Visualize

• Connect

• Question

• Clarify

• Evaluate

While reading…”Ashes”

• Use the 6 active reading strategies

• Look for figurative language.

• Note pages where you are recording your information using 2 column notes (summer reading)

Where What

Happened

Reflection:

Why would Estrella’s Mother feel the following is a secret never to be spoken?

“all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden. My mother had put a finger to her lips when she had told me this. She taught me some of what she had learned from her father, secret things I must never repeat.”