Monday, March 14, 2011

Today, you worked on grammar. You had to take the sentences and discover what literary devices are contained in each one. I have pasted it here for those who are absent. The students in class created a legend and then highlighted the types when they came upon them.

Grammar Assignment #2

Simile a comparison using the word like or as

Metaphor a direct comparison

Alliteration repeating the beginning sound in a series of words

Personification describing an inanimate object as though it had human characteristics

Onomatopoeia a word whose name imitates its meaning

Oxymoron two apparently opposite words used together

Repetition repeating a word or phrase over and over

Allusion a reference to a famous event that you should recognize

i.e., The toothpaste hurried toward the ground like a kid in a candy store.

“Toothpaste hurried” personification
“like a kid in a candy store” simile

1. The wind whipped their whispers away like scraps of paper.
2. The basketball game was like a reenactment of Custers Last Stand.
3. Time is just a stream I go fishing in and idleness is my lure.
4. The wind howled in pain as it whipped itself against my window.
5. “We shall fight on the landing ground, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
6. Her craggy face was carved in granite with ringing blows of an iron.
7. The hobo whistled wanly as he walked down the path.
8. The silky dress caressed her soft body as it encased her body in beauty.
9. In death we are born eternally and then Death thou are dead.
10. Her sad smile was the last I saw of her.
11. The dead and dry desert was like a child’s sad sandbox.
12. They were as close as two peas in a pod and two burrs in a bear’s tail.
13. The waves licked and tickled my feet as I plopped myself down on the lonely beach.
14. My boots grated on the rough stones and then gurgled as they sloshed through the puddle.
15. Her talon touch was like sandpaper and her voice was like nails on a chalkboard.
16. His name was Killgood and he was the king of beggars.
17. The pond was a perfect crystal; a pane of glass waiting for my hook to break its smooth, patient face.
18. He heard the ping of the bullet’s ricochet after it crashed from the mouth of the gun.
19. The volcano yawned and stretched in hopes of swallowing up the small group of explorers.
20. “Death lies on her like an untimely frost.”