...SIOP® LESSON PLANS Grade 9/SIFE Reading/Language Arts/Writing Unit/Theme: Emotions and The House on Mango Street *Content Objective(s): *Students will describe Cisneros’ voice and style, listing some of her creative uses of language as characteristic of this author’s craft*Students will explore the physical and emotional prisons in which people live. *Students will discover and evaluate different methods of escape from these prisons. *Students will practice writing in the persuasive mode, using evidence from the text and from their own lives to construct effective arguments proposing the best way to escape the troubles of life*Students will peer edit and revise for content, for sentence structure, and for use of figurative language. *Language Objective(s): *Students will continue to build vocabulary resources for discussing emotions. *Students will identify fragmentary sentence structure, voice, and effective use of figurative language in Cisneros’ style and use knowledge of style to develop originality in their own writing style. *Student will be able to participate in and contribute to collaborative learning, such as “think, pair, share” and “expert groups.” Key Vocabulary: prison, escape, safe haven, voice, style, figurative language, persuasive mode, context, concept map, anticipatory set, peer editing, rubric, tapping prior knowledge, description, sensory detail, quotation, five senses, , sentence fragments, “unacceptable in academic writing,” punctuation,...
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...___________________ Ray Bradbury used figurative language throughout his novel to create mental pictures or images in his readers’ minds. As a result, his prose often sounds much like poetry. Part One: On notebook paper, create your own chart of poetic prose from the novel. Use blue or black ink. Do not write on the back. Skip a line between each example. To avoid using my quotes, don’t use quotes from the first fourteen pages of the novel. On line A, write the page number and the quotation. On line B, write a paraphrase of the quote. FIND FOUR OF EACH TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. Place the four similes on page one, the four metaphors on page two, and the four examples of personification on page three. Part Two: Choose one of your quotes and make a visual no larger than 9 X 12 expressing its meaning. Neatly write your quote on your visual. Do not put your visual on notebook paper. A SIMILE is a figure of speech in which like or as or similar words are used to make a comparison between two basically unlike ideas. “Alex is as bright as Jason” is a comparison, not a simile. “Alex is as bright as a light bulb” is a simile. A METAPHOR is a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. Unlike a simile, a metaphor implies a comparison between two basically unlike ideas. Example: Alexander is the sunshine of my day. PERSONIFICATION is a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics...
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...language. You may type your answers directly into this document. This assignment will be typed and handed in as a hard copy and submitted to the D2L Dropbox. NOTE: To save paper, please delete the examples below before you print out your assignment. Example entry: Simile – your definition. Integrated quote – As Ultima bathes Lucas in preparation for his cure, he is “like a rag doll in her hands” (Anaya 96). Your interpretation (of the figurative language): This is an example of simile because it is comparing Lucas to a limp, lifeless doll. Example entry: Metaphor - your definition Integrated quote: Anaya uses metaphor in describing Tenorio’s saloon when Ultima inquires, “Is he in his dog hole, that place he calls a saloon?”(92). Your interpretation: Anaya is comparing a dog hole with a saloon. Metaphor – Your definition Integrated quote: Your interpretation: Simile – Your definition Integrated quote: Your interpretation: Personification – Your definition Integrated quote: Your interpretation: Hyperbole – Your definition Integrated quote: Your interpretation: Foreshadowing – Your definition Integrated quote: Your interpretation: Metaphor – (No need to repeat definitions) Integrated quote: Your interpretation: Simile - Integrated quote: Your interpretation: Personification - Integrated quote: Your interpretation: Hyperbole – Integrated quote: Your interpretation: ...
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...Figurative Language versus Literal Language By: Angelle Dent PHI210 Professor Carrie Prettiman January 20, 2012 The purpose of this paper is to explore the meaning and functionalities associated with figurative language versus literal language. Traditionally, figurative language, such as metaphors and idioms, have been considered derivatives from and more complex than ostensibly straightforward language. “A contemporary view is that figurative language involves the same kinds of linguistic and pragmatic operations that are used for ordinary, literal language” (Glucksberg, 1975). Figurative language is language that uses words and or expressions with a meaning that is different or a variation from the literal interpretation. Literal language, in comparison, is very direct and straightforward in approach by simply conveying facts. When a writer or author uses literal language, he or she is stating the facts as they are. Figurative language, on the other hand, is very common in poetry and verses and is used in prose and nonfiction writing using creativity and imaginative expression conveyed through personal ideas or opinions. Figurative language is often used as a literary device that many authors use to bring the reader into the actual writing. The language is written in such a way that what is being said or stated is different from the actual literal meaning of the words. Some common types of figurative languages are defined and explained below. Idiom:...
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...prose style as from the wrenching content of his narratives. In this paper, I will explore several techniques that compress his prose to the lapidary and one that is more expansive and cuts against his impulse to concision. One of Babel’s most striking tools for reducing his text to essentials is the simile (and more rarely the metaphor), a tactic that allows him to juxtapose images that complicate the text in a short space. He also has a knack for rendering psychological states in terms so compressed that they seem irreducible; for instance, at the end of a story when a character’s heart is constricted by a foreboding of truth, there really is nothing more to say. To an extreme, Babel makes his prose do more than one thing at a time: his descriptions of scenery frequently delve to the heart of the point-of-view character. Cutting against this tendency and made powerful by it, the stories indulge in the repetition of words, a tactic that can propel the prose toward exultation. §1 Simile and Metaphor Babel makes good use of simile and metaphor, both of which lend power, complexity, concision, and often violence to his writing. At times the similes are simply vivid juxtapositions that enliven the prose but do little else. “His stomach, like a large tomcat, lay on the silver pommel” paints a clear and striking picture, but tomcats do not otherwise enter these narratives. But at their best, the similes are often simple and spring from the world of the story itself, illuminating...
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...The English language is known as being one of the most difficult languages to learn. There are many reasons for this, a major factor being the use of figurative language. Since the English language is packed with figures of speech is can be very confusing to truly comprehend what someone is trying to get across. This doesn’t just go for the new comers to the English language but also to native English speakers. Throughout this paper I will define and give examples for ten different types of figurative language while providing appropriate usage. These types of figurative language include idiom, analogy, metaphor, simile, cliché, amphiboly, fame word, hyperbole, euphemism, and lastly colloquialism. Idiom Idioms are words or phrases that mean something different from what they are literally saying. For example “to burn the candle at both ends” means to exhaust yourself by doing too much ("Language Arts," 2010). At first it might not make much since. After thinking about it you may realize if you lit a candle at both ends it would actually burn out two times faster than just being lit on one side. An appropriate circumstance for using this example would be if you had a friend that worked two jobs and went to school full-time. You could say “wow you really are burning the candle at both ends”. Again you are stating how your friend is over working themselves and how they could burn out just like the candle. Analogy An analogy compares certain similarities between things which...
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...Kiwin 4pm Time time Older parents Young families Elderly Nigella (8 time) Different time * Gomnerns * Single people * Rice people * With lots of money * Dress: * Lots of males watch it * Come home late * She attracts lots of males * Wears Make- up * Purpose: The purpose is to sell products Nigella Lawson Spoken Language Essays and Term Papers ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form * Keyword(s): Search * Any words * All words * Exact search/except words * Exact phrase: Exclude words: * Advanced Search Bottom of Form Documents 1 - 20 of 1000 * ffgfgfg the spoken language of nigella Lawson and Gordon Ramsay Nigella Lawson and Gordon Ramsay, two very famous TV chefs, have completely different ways of presenting themselves verbally. Ramsay is well known for his fiery temper and for being extremely offensive at times by using blasphemy. Nigella Lawson... Premium 393 Words 2 Pages * Investigate the ways spoken language is used By the TV chefs Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver Investigate the ways spoken language is used By the TV chefs Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver have the same purpose to entertain and share their love of cooking but they go about it in different ways. Lawson and Oliver differ in many ways, for starters Lawson is all about sharing... Premium 771 Words 4 Pages * Spoken Language Questionaire...
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...Prof.Geritano ENG 102G6 February 23, 2015 Assignment #2 Tim O’ Brien as a narrator of this story his opening sentences “Even now I’ll admit, the story makes me squirm. For more than twenty years I’ve had to live with it, feeling the shame, trying to push it away, and so by this act of remembrance, by putting the facts down on paper. All of us, I suppose, like to believe that in a moral emergency we will behave like the heroes of our youth, bravely and forthrightly, without thoughts of personal loss or discredit”. After these few sentences you already begin to see the tone in which he is writing in he writes in third person and switches back to first person he is trying to give us a personal view and draws us in to read what he has to say to us. The author wants us to have some sympathy for him for him and basically have an understanding on what he is about to tell us. This already has us in the mood of trying to figure out what he is going through. In paragraph two Tim uses rhetorical questions he beings to ask us was it a civil war? A war of national liberation or simple aggression? When the author begins to ask us these question he is trying to basically make us as the reader be placed in this young gentleman shoes to figure out how at this moment figuring out what is going through his mind and what matters to him, he has us having this input already about the way he feels about war so when he springs upon us that he is drafted into the war we begin to feel sorry for...
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...exaggerations. Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, we are using figurative language. The function of literal language is to present word or groups of words to "literally" mean exactly what they intended to be. Using literal language simplify the mean of words for everyone to understand. Figurative language function differently, it allow the use of word or groups of word to them different meaning and give one to think what the writer actually mean which will give one a true or false answer and still be correct. These lead to different figure of speeches which make languages very interesting. 2. Provide an example for each of the following terms and when it might lead to misunderstanding - idiom, analogy, metaphor, simile, cliché, amphiboly, "flame word", hyperbole, euphemism, and colloquialism. The following terms are ways of expressing meaning of language using figurative language. An idiom is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning or associative or connotative meaning. Idioms have meaning that cannot be figure out by looking up the words in the dictionary. They have meanings that are understood by people who speak that language, but are very hard to understand for people who do not speak that language. Examples of idioms is as follows: " He took me to the cleaners" - means to cause them to lose a lot of...
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...Figurative language versus literal language Jordan Clemons Critical Thinking 210 Dr. McGeehan 11/01/2013 Abstract Language and the way it is used today can be misconstrued, misused, often leading to the misjudgment of someone or something’s character. When we factor in popular slang, slang abbreviations, and other choice words, it seems fairly easy to be judgmental of certain people who use this variety of language on a daily basis. Older words that have been “Grandfathered” into the English language are becoming more obsolete by the minute, and the fact that they are not being used commonly makes an argument for English scholars of old in comparison to these modern day English teachers. This paper will explore ten words that are not commonly used in today’s conversations or taught in today’s English classes. Figurative language versus literal language Idiom – a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words. An idiom can be confused for a metaphor, if used in certain ways. I watch a lot of sports and one idiom that is commonly in most sports is that a certain player or team is playing with a “chip on their shoulders”. Playing with a chip on your shoulder, means that you are trying to make a statement with your play, it also means that you think that you know a lot. Idioms are used to enhance and make whatever the topic of discussion is more colorful and relatable. Idioms...
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...In this poem Marge Piercy s speaker evokes a concrete vision of a woman who has lost her personal identity to her job. Her bold and descriptive use of metaphors allow the reader to envision a woman who is living her life vicariously through her career. Ms. Piercy successfully uses paradox, personification, and the pun to bring the character alive. With the use of metaphors, both implied and explicit, the reader can deeply empathize with the central character of this poem. From the first line of the poem the tone is set for the reader. It is not so vague as to use a simple simile, but a strong manifestation of the idea of the speaker as an actual personification of a material object. She does not say My hips are like a desk , she says My hips are a desk (line 1). Throughout the rest of the poem, personification of the woman as nothing more than a piece of office equipment is expressed with striking realism. In the first six lines of the poem the speaker describes herself in salient detail. Each of her body parts are placed with an obvious piece of office equipment. This allows the reader to form a solid picture of a woman sitting at her desk performing the daily drudgery of a secretary. She does not see herself as a real woman but a woman whose hair is rubber bands (3), whose breasts are wells of mimeograph ink , (5) and whose feet bear casters (6). The secretary is so entrenched in her job that she describes her head as a badly organized file (8). To furthur describe...
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...Sylvia Plath’s Mirror: A Reflection Misty Williams ENG125 Introduction to Literature Instructor Stephen Rogers July 22, 2013 I was drawn to Sylvia Plath’s poem Mirror because of her use of figurative language. I am also drawn to her dark style of writing. Personification, symbolism and metaphors used were key elements in attracting my attention. The personification of the mirror gives the point of view of an impartial bystander observing a woman as she struggles with her changing image and self-esteem. The simile is used to show a woman who is unable to accept who she really is. The use of metaphor explains how something as small as a mirror can have much control over how we view ourselves. Personification occurs when inanimate objects, animals or ideas are assigned human characteristics. In the first four lines the mirror is given human traits with the use of the word “I”, “Whatever I see, I swallow…” gives the ability to see and swallow, and “I am not cruel, only truthful” gives the mirror a sense of truth and honesty. (As cited by Clugston, 2010, 12.2) The use of personification brings into effect past, present and future. This different perspective allowed me to “see” what the mirror sees and not get involved in the emotions of the woman and how she views herself. The mirror and reflection are metaphors representing the exact truth. The mirror is "unmisted" by prejudice human "preconceptions" and reveals "only" the "truthful" viewpoints...
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...Perfect Imagine you are a young girl. It is your first day at a new school. You have chosen the perfect outfit; your hair is immaculate; and your make-up is flawless… so you think. Fast forward to lunchtime and you find yourself sitting at a table for eight with a party of one. You are an outcast. Alone. Crushed. Social acceptance can mean everything to a person. And some people will do anything to feel accepted. In Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll”, the use of imagery and metaphor help create the theme that society’s pressure on young girls (and boys) to be perfect can lead to extreme endings. “Barbie Doll” begins with a young, ordinary “girlchild” (Line 1) innocently playing with her Barbie doll. The girl grows to be of puberty age, at a time when a girl’s emotions are very fragile, and is the subject of criticism from one of her peers. She states, “You have a great big nose and fat legs” (line 6). The girlchild is described as being a normal girl. “She was healthy, tested intelligent, possessed strong arms and back…” (Line 7-8) but the ridicule has a profound impact on the young girl. “Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.” (Line 11) shows how the girl thinks everyone perceives her. Piercy uses imagery in lines 12 through 14 to describe how the girl lets this pressure of society’s opinion begin to change her self-image. “She was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.” Exhorted and wheedle are synonyms for influenced or persuasion...
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...The Story of an Hour Analysis Kate Chopin’s short story called The Story of an Hour fits its title because the whole story happens in literally an hour or less. In the story the first character we hear about is Mrs. Mallard a wife of a man who works at a railroad; it is also known that she has a heart disease. We also hear about her sister, Josephine who had to break the news to Mrs. Mallard about her husband’s supposed death, the last character is Mr. Mallards friend named Richards, who seems to be with Josephine just for moral support and to be there if anything were to happen. The setting took place in Mr. and Mrs. Mallards house when Josephine went to break the news “in broken sentences” to her about the railroad accident that happened and seemed to cause the life of Mr. Mallard. The story is told in third person, and it only takes an hour or less to find out what really happened at the railroads. After she had heard of the disaster that had happened back at the railroads she started to cry on her sisters shoulders. She was paralyzed at the fact that her husband had died she was in a huge shock and did not expect such news. The story then goes on talking about depression “There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know” I believe that what was coming to her was a depression that she had never felt before. Mrs. Mallard’s felt guilt mostly because she realized that she had taken her husband for granted. Also, by taking...
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...In each of Thomas Hardy’s poems, he uses many literary devices to express different concerns. One of the main concerns which are commonly displayed in his poems is the portrayal of death and the supernatural. Hardy often uses dark and depressing references to create the image for this concern. Hardy would also use various literary devises such as personification, similes and alliteration to get the main point across for his poems. In Tomas Hardy’s poems, “God’s Education”, “The Darkling Trush”, “The Moth Signal”, “The Phantom Horsewoman” and “Life and Death at Sunrise”, he would often use metaphors to clearly express one of his main concerns which are the portrayal of death and supernatural. Frequently in the poem, “God’ Education” which portrays a young woman dying and her love one watched her die. The obvious theme of the poem is death which assists the development of the tone. The tone of this poem is showing great sadness and lividness about her death, but most importantly, it is displaying the young man’s disappointment with God for taking the young girl’s life away. Hardy also created a tone for God which seems to be amusement. One of the first metaphors which is revealed is “I saw him steal the light away:” (V-1, L-1) When talking about the light in someone, imagine life, joy and meaning but God has apparently stole the light away from her life leaving her to be just a being without a purpose or reason. Also “That haunted in her eye:” (V-1, L-2) The light which vanished...
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