We know our literary terms

And we are publishing our

work

The assignment• Define the underlined literary term and

then follow the activity directions to give an example of the literary term.

• 1.) Using your shoulder partner create PowerPoint slides and define each of these terms on a slide. You will need to create at least 2 slides per term – one with the definition and one with the activity.

• 2.) Underline the term and number them.

• 3.) EACH OF YOU will turn upload your slides to Schoology by the end of class for a participation grade.

• Alliteration– Example: The Cute Cuddly Kitten hid in the pantry. – Activity: Describe two family members using their first name and alliteration. (Tiny Terrible

Tina) • Allusion

– Example: I compared myself to Toni Braxton, thought I would never catch my breath. – Activity: Describe your school using an allusion.

• Figurative Language – Example: Donny was so angry flames of fire came out of his mouth. – Activity: Write two sentences about your English class using figurative language.

• Metaphor – Example: Life is a broken winged bird that can not fly. – Activity: Write a metaphor for love.

• Extended Metaphor – Example: See Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy” – Activity: Describe your personality using an extended metaphor

• Onomatopoeia – Example: The bacon sizzled in the pan. – Activity: Write two sentences that use Onomatopoeia.

• Personification– Example: When I sat down, the chair wrapped its arms around me comfortingly. – Activity: Describe your house using personification.

• Rhyme– Example: Now I lay me down to sleep. / I pray the Lord my soul to keep. – Activity: Write a 3 line rhyme about your favorite restaurant.

• Repetition– Example: Martin Luther King’s speech “I Have a Dream” – Activity: Use repetition to sell your favorite soft drink.

• Simile– Example: Float like a butterfly sting like a bee. – Activity: Use a simile to describe one of your parents.

Alliteration• the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter• Aunt Pig likes pink and purple purses!

Ty Thomas

Allusion • An expression

designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• West Jefferson is the city of death, because of the new principal the kids think the principal will kill them of all the rules.

In the poem, The City of Walls by Edgar Allan Poe, the phrase "up Babylon - like walls" is considered to be an allusion as it refers to the doomed city of death.

Ty Thomas

Figurative Language

• language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.

• My English class talk so much, I really thought they all had motor mouths.

• My English teacher gives so much work my head was spinning from all the new information.

Ty Thomas

Figurative Language

Figurative Languages is language that uses figures of speech, especially metaphors

EUGENEE’

BaconThey serve bacon so much at school it is coming out of the students ears!!

Bursting into Flames

The classroom is so hot I thought it was going to burst into flames!!

EUGENEE’

5. Onomatopoeia

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named 

By: Evan & Octavia

Onomatopoeia

splish-splash down the windows of my school

whoosh, passing breeze

Octavia C.

When we were walking to the golf course , ping a golf ball had hit one of the tea’s.

When I woke up this morning I heard the birds chirping outside my widow.

Evan S.

Personification

• an embodiment or perfect example of something

Personification

•When I got home from out the cold air the warm air inside wrapped around me .

DEFINITION

The simple repeating of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular placement of the words, in order to provide emphasis.

EXAMPLE

Buy coke its good coke buy coke.

Jose and Jimmy

DEFINITION

A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as

EXAMPLE

My little brother is as good as a dove.

Jose and Jimmy

 The act or process or an instance of

repeating or being repeated

JoshDrink root beer it’s the best.Drink root beer makes people happy.

Drink root beer it’s a reasonable price.

Drink root beer never lets you down.