Test Prep

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Test Prep

• Where is the error in the following sentence?
• For the Thanksgiving reunion, relatives were
  sitting in the dining room, on the porch, and in
  the carport.
• Thanksgiving, reunion
• Were, sitting
• Porch and
• No error

2
Review Sound Terms

• (not a mini-lesson)

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Sound Terms

• We have worked with four different sound terms
  this unit
• Alliteration
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Diction
• Based on your pretests, I expect you to know but
  will not cover
• End rhyme
• Internal rhyme

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Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Diction

• Read the following lines and note examples of
  high-level diction, alliteration, assonance, and
  consonance on your paper.
• Slow the low gradual moan came in the snowing.
• Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep.
• Sparks, like words on the / Paper, leap and dance
  in the / Flickering firelight.
• How frail / Above the bulk / Of crashing water
  hangs / Autumnal, evanescent, wan / The moon.

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Self-Assessment

• On your paper, please answer the following
  questions in light of this activity
• Which of those terms do you completely
  understand?
• What are you still struggling with / What do I
  need to help you with?
• Would you be willing to stay after school to get
  help with any of this stuff?

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Figurative Language

• A short introduction
• Figurative language is speech that departs from
  literal, straightforward language. Im sure you
  couldve recounted that definition, but do you
  know any examples? Take a few seconds to jot
  some down.
• Did you get idiom, metaphor, personification,
  simile, oxymoron, hyperbole, symbol, pun?

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Figurative Language

• Why the heck do I need all of this figurative
  language anyway?
• Emphasis
• Freshness of expression
• Clarity
• Take a second to think about how figurative
  language helps with each of these.
• Now take a second to think about how figurative
  language might confuse peopleespecially those
  who dont speak your own language. This may be a
  way to help you spot figurative language in
  poetry.
• However, it is still a very effective tool to
  have in your belt. (Did you catch it?) -)

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Self-Assessment

• Of the following terms, what do you feel like you
  need to work on?
• Personification
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Synecdoche
• Hyperbole
• Symbolism
• Imagery
• Understatement
• Irony
• paradox