FIGURES OF SPEECH

What do you remember about SIMILE?Pick out the part in the statement that expresses simile.

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. It's like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark and thinking that there's one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down through the air and there's a sickly moment of dark surprise." -- delivered by Jude Law (from the movie A Series of Unfortunate Events)

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Understanding SimileWhat is being compared to what?

Death - is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark and thinking that there's one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down through the air and there's a sickly moment of dark surprise."

How will you define simile in your own words?

Simile is a comparison of two unlike things, typically marked by use of "like" or "as". Defining Simile

Using Similes in PoetryPredictable

Poor as a church mouse. strong as an ox, cute as a button, smart as a fox.

thin as a toothpick, white as a ghost, fit as a fiddle, dumb as a post.

bald as an eagle, neat as a pin, proud as a peacock, ugly as sin.

When people are talking you know what they'll say as soon as they start to use a clich.

By Bruce Lansky

Using Similes:Compare the ff ideas with a simile

LIFE - CHOCOLATESLOVE - CRAYONSWINNING CLIMBINGLOSING - BASKETHAPPINESS DAISIESBOYS GIRLS

Check up your knowledgeFollow the links and do the exercises:

http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/dragonsville/simile1.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/similepractice.html

Pick out the Metaphor in this passage:

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; (William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7)

What do you remember about METAPHOR?

What is being expressed:That "the world" is compared to a stage, the aim being to describe the world by taking well-known attributes from the stage.Understanding Metaphor

How will you define Metaphor?

direct comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects

How is this different from Simile?

Defining Metaphor

Using MetaphorsMake your own metaphors by filling in the blanks:Example: A flower is a soda shop to a bee. It sips sweet nectar through a curled straw. A(n) ______ is a ______ to/for a _______. It _________ _______ ____________.

Follow the links and do the exercises:http://www.rhlschool.com/eng3n26.htm

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What do you remember about PERSONIFICATION?A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form (e.g. Hunger sat shivering on the road or Flowers danced about the lawn. )

Understanding PersonificationUnderline the word that gives a quality of a person.1. The sun stretches its warmth across the land.2. The chair danced as the baby bounced to and fro.3. The darkness wrapped its arms around me.

Using PersonificationLook at the words below. Try to give each word a quality of a human and write a sentence.frog____________________________

table ___________________________

grass ___________________________

night ___________________________

What do you remember about HyperboleAn extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.Examples:Youve grown like a bean sprout.Im older than the hills.They ran like greased lightning.Her brain is the size of a pea.