7th Grade Language Arts Objective 1.e.
Part 1 Metaphors, Similes, & Personification
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Create an index card for each of the
numbered figurative language devices in this
presentation.
Each card should have the following
◦ Name of the figurative language device
◦ Definition
◦ example
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Compare two unlike things with the word
like or as
Dry earth cracked
like a jigsaw puzzle.
Her eyes were bright like the sun.
Her eyes were as bright as the sun.
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Compare two unlike things without using a
comparison word (as in the first example that
uses a stampede to represent a flooded river):
The swollen river stampedes past.
Or
For me, her eyes are the sun.
A metaphor is usually stronger than a simile
because it is more direct. Can you explain why?
Dreams
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
How do the metaphors affect
the central idea of the poem?
Harlem (A Dream Deferred)
Langston Hughes, 1951
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore −
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over −
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
How do the similes affect the central idea of the poem?
Get a piece of paper and a pen so
that you can practice identifying
the difference between similes
and metaphors.
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1. All the world’s a
stage.
2. What a pain. It’s
like looking for a
needle in a
haystack.
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3. The wind was a
soft whisper.
4. He is a snake.
5. My life is like a
roller coaster.
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6. My math teacher
looks mean, but his
bark is worse than
his bite.
7. Your room looks
like a tornado attack.
8. My teacher is a
witch.
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9. Don’t worry. It’s as
easy as falling off a
log.
10. I don’t have
anything to do with
that. You’re barking
up the wrong tree.
11. At formal parties,
he’s like a fish out of
water.
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12. Make like a
tree and leave.
13. Make like a
banana and split.
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14. Exactly! You hit
the nail on the
head.
15. That dress fits
like a glove.
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Flint
An emerald is as green as
grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue
as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant
stone,
To catch the world's desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds a fire.
Christina Rossetti
1830-1894
1.The first stanza of this
poem uses 3 examples of
which type of figurative
language device?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Metaphor
Simile
Idiom
Rhyme scheme
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Gives life-like or human characteristics to a
nonhuman subject as if it were a person.
Puddles beg me to stop and play.
The angry storm threatened the peace of
the day with its furious fists.
The rain to the wind said,
“You push and I’ll pelt.”
And they so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt
And lay lodged, though not dead
I know how the flowers felt.
In the morning the city
Spreads its wings
Making a song
In stone that sings.
In the evening the city
Goes to bed
Hanging lights
Above its head.
– --Langston Hughes
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The Toaster
A silver-scaled dragon with jaws flaming red
Sits at my elbow and toasts my bread.
I hand him fat slices, and then, one by one,
He hands them back when he sees they are done.
--William Jay Smith
Apartment House
A filing cabinet of human lives
Where people swarm like bees in tunneled hives,
Each to his own cell in the covered comb,
Identical and cramped -- we call it home.
--Gerald Raftery
7th Grade Language Arts
Part 2 Hyperbole, Idioms, & Irony
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Uses exaggeration for a special, often
humorous, effect.
A million degrees on the thermometer,
and I still can’t go swimming.
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Can you think of any good examples of
hyperbole?
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A commonly known expression that is not
meant to be taken literally (or exactly as the
words suggest).
When a person uses an idiom, the listener
might take the actual meaning wrong if he or
she has not heard this figure of speech before.
Idioms don't usually cross language
boundaries. In some cases, when an idiom is
translated into another language, the meaning
of the idiom no longer makes much sense.
A Blessing In Disguise:
Something good that isn't recognized at first.
A Chip On Your Shoulder:
Being upset for something that happened in the
past.
A Dime A Dozen:
Anything that is common and easy to get.
A Drop in the Bucket:
A very small part of something big or whole.
A Piece of Cake:
A task that can be accomplished very easily.
A Slap on the Wrist:
A very mild punishment.
A Taste Of Your Own Medicine:
When you are mistreated the same way you
mistreat others.
Add Fuel To The Fire:
Whenever something is done to make a bad
situation even worse than it is.
All Bark And No Bite:
When someone is threatening and/or aggressive but not
willing to engage in a fight.
Apple of My Eye:
Someone who is cherished above all others.
Back Seat Driver:
People who criticize from the sidelines, much like
someone giving unwanted advice from the back seat of a
vehicle to the driver.
Barking Up The Wrong Tree:
A mistake made in something you are trying to achieve.
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Situational irony- A difference in what you
expect to happen (like in a story) and what
actually happens.
Verbal Irony- (sarcasm) Both parties are
aware of the difference of what has been said
and what was actually meant.
Dramatic Irony-When the audience knows
something that the character or characters do
not.
7th Grade Language Arts Objective
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Is the repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning of words.
The wicked wind laughs long and loudly.
Sally sold seashells by the seashore.
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Is the repetition of vowel sounds anywhere
in words.
Blustery autumn drums our door.
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Is the repetition of consonant sounds
anywhere in words.
Stark stones caressed by mist.
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What is the difference between consonance
and alliteration?
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Is the use of words that sound like what they
name.
Plop! Splat!
Raindrops clap
the roof and tap
the skylight.
Can you think of any more good examples?
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Uses the same word or phrase more than
once, for emphasis or for rhythm.
Hot
Hot
Hot
Hot
today, so very.
as a coal stove.
as a steam iron.
as hot can be.
What figurative language device do you see?
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Using words whose endings sound alike.
End rhyme happens at the end of lines.
The dumpster lids are loaded down
with white snow; in the street, it’s brown.
Internal rhyme happens within the lines.
Cold waves rolled beneath the gray sky.
The rain to the wind said,
“You push and I’ll pelt.”
And they so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt
And lay lodged, though not dead
I know how the flowers felt.
The rain to the wind said,
a
“You push and I’ll pelt.”
b
And they so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt
And lay lodged, though not dead
I know how the flowers felt.
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b
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b
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Is a pattern of accented and unaccented
syllables in a poem. Traditional poetry
follows in a more regulated pattern. The
rhythm of free-verse poetry tends to flow
naturally like speaking.
Listen to the rhythm as you say:
An earthworm wriggles after rain.
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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
"If turkeys gobble,
Do Pilgrims squabble?“
"If cars go zoom,
exhaust smoke will plume!"
"If the phone rings,
hope then still clings."