Figurative Language Crash Course!!!To Kill a Mockingbird Activity

Write about your morning, everything you have done…up until you arrived at the door of this classroom.

What did you do?Who did you see?Where did you go? How did you get

there?Tell me everything!

WNB: How was your morning?

What is figurative language?

Language used to help readers visualize and experience what is occurring in a piece of writing

There are a lot of examples in To Kill a Mockingbird

What is imagery?

Imagery is a word or phrase that refers to a sensory experience (sight, sound, smell, touch, or taste) that helps create a physical experience for the reader and helps the reader understand.

Examples: I heard the shrill cry of the kittens

screams in contrast with the clanking of the ceramic mugs even before I entered the kitchen.

Their eyes were only squinting as they popped their velvety-soft heads out of the hand-crafted mugs; the silhouette of whiskers could be seen in contrast with the ivory tint of the mugs.

From TKAM

The fire was well into the second floor and had eaten its way to the roof: window frames were black against a vivid orange center.

What is a simile?

A comparison of two things that at first seem quite different but are shown to have significant resemblance. Similes employ connective words, usually ‘like,” “as,” “than,” or a verb such as “resembles.”

Examples: The panda cub slept like a

newborn baby.

The panda cub resembled a half-eaten Oreo cookie.

From TKAM

The back porch was bathed in moonlight, and the shadow, crisp as toast, moved across the porch toward Jem.

What is a metaphor?

A statement that one thing is something else that, in a literal sense, it is not. By asserting that a thing is something else, a metaphor creates a close association that underscores an important similarity between these two things.

Example: The Ducati is the cheetah of the

motorcycle world.

It is a monster that cannot be stopped.

From TKAM

As a result the town remained the same size for a hundred years, an island in a patchwork sea of cotton fields and timberland.

Think of imagery/ a simile/ a metaphor for this picture. . .

Your turn!!!

You will be split into groups; each group will be assigned a group of chapters.

Work in your groups to find three examples of figurative language

You must write out the quote, then label which type of figurative language it is

After, work INDIVIDUALLY to re-write your journal entry today on a separate sheet of paper, using TWO instances of imagery, TWO similes, and TWO metaphors.

Staple this to your other handout and turn it in.

What you don’t finish today is DUE TOMORROW!!!