Burning Bright and figurative lang.notebook
March 22, 2012
Question: Raise your hand if you know what this is a picture of?
Next... raise your hand if you can remember a connection between this and the first part of "Burning Bright"
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Learning targets:
• To share questions and observations about the first part of "Burning Bright"
• To define simile and metaphor (review)
• To explore the reasons that writers use figurative language
• To go on a metaphor hunt in Fahrenheit
• To leave prepared for the "Illustrated Metaphor" assignment
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Burning Bright and figurative lang.notebook
March 22, 2012
Reading check:
1) Why do you think Mildred "pulled the alarm" on Montag?
2) When Montag is forced to destroy his own house, he is once again happy to burn. Why is that?
3) What does Beatty discover when he hits Montag? And why does this make Montag panic?
4) What does Montag do to Beatty that cannot be undone?
5) What does it say about this society that a car full of young people (who do not know Montag) try to hit him as he attempts to cross the road?
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Figurative language = A metaphor is ...
A figure of speech that describes a subject by stating that it is, by comparison, the same as another unrelated object.
A simile is ... A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.
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Burning Bright and figurative lang.notebook
March 22, 2012
For example:
The men were hurling shovelfuls of dusty magazines into the air. They fell like slaughtered birds and the woman stood below, like a small girl, among the bodies. p.37
"He lay far across the room from her on a winter island separated by an empty sea. " p. 41
"The bombers crossed the sky and crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling, like an immense, invisible fan, circling in emptiness." p. 73
Mar 21­9:26 AM
So... why do writers use figurative language??
• With your neighbor, come up with one or more GOOD reasons why a writer might use figurative language in their work?
To make something interesting and to provide imagery.
To compare a thing that the reader isn't really familiar with, to something that they are familiar with.
To further exaggerate something.
To make the reader think.
To give writing more pizzazz.
To appeal to our five senses.
To give something deeper meaning.
To give a different perspective.
Less likely to use dead words when you use similes and metaphors.
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Burning Bright and figurative lang.notebook
March 22, 2012
Simile and metaphor hunt:
According to your assigned section of the book, read 2­3 pages and locate all of the different examples of figurative language that you can find.
...like...
Mar 21­9:26 AM
You're ready for your homework assignment!
Using Ray Bradbury's figurative language and your imagination, create your own "illustrated metaphors"
(See handout for details, use examples for inspiration, have fun exercising your creativity!)
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Burning Bright and figurative lang.notebook
March 22, 2012
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