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Welcome to Figurative Speech Boot Camp!!!

• By the end of today, students will be able to

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• determine if a given quote from a piece of
  literature is an example of a simile, metaphor,
  personification or idiom
• create poems that include their own examples of
  a simile, metaphor, and personification.

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Are you READY for Metaphors???
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I Am a Rock by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

• Dont talk of love,
• But Ive heard the words before
• Its sleeping in my memory.
• I wont disturb the slumber of feelings
• that have died.
• If I never loved I never would have
• cried.
• I am a rock,
• I am an island.
• I have my books
• And my poetry to protect me
• I am shielded in my armor,
• Hiding in my room, safe within my
• womb.
• I touch no one and no one touches
• me.
• I am a rock,
• I am an island.

• A winters day
• In a deep and dark December
• I am alone,
• Gazing from my window
• to the streets below
• On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
• I am a rock,
• I am an island.
• Ive built walls,
• A fortress deep and mighty,
• That none may penetrate.
• I have no need of friendship friendship
• Causes pain.
• Its laughter and its loving I disdain.
• I am a rock,
• I am an island.

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I Am a Rock by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
Dont talk of love, But Ive heard the words
before Its sleeping in my memory. I wont
disturb the slumber of feelings that have
died. If I never loved I never would
have cried. I am a rock, I am an island. I have
my books And my poetry to protect me I am
shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe
within my womb. I touch no one and no one
touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.
A winters day In a deep and dark December I am
alone, Gazing from my window to the streets
below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of
snow. I am a rock, I am an island. Ive built
walls, A fortress deep and mighty, That none may
penetrate. I have no need of friendship
friendship Causes pain. Its laughter and its
loving I disdain. I am a rock, I am an island.
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Metaphors

• A figure of speech in which an implicit
  comparison is made between two unlike things that
  actually have something important in common.
• Ex.) He is such a pig!

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Who are we?
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What words come to mind when you think of???

• (insert chosen image from the class)

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YOUR TURN

• 1.) Pick an image from your Who Am I??? sheet
  OR come up with your own.
• 2.) Brainstorm as many words as possible that
  have to do with your image on your word chart
• 3.) Start writing your poem

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Are you READY for Similes???
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Short Skirt, Long Jacket by Cake

• I want a girl with a mind like a diamondI want a
  girl who knows whats bestI want a girl with
  shoes that cutAnd eyes that burn like
  cigarettesI want a girl with the right
  allocationWhos fast, and thorough, and sharp as
  a tackShes playing with her jewelry, shes
  putting up her hairShes touring the facility and
  picking up slackI want a girl with a short
  skirt,And a looooooooooooooooooong jacket

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• I want a girl who gets up earlyI want a girl who
  stays up lateI want a girl with uninterrupted
  prosperityWho uses a machetti to cut through red
  tapeWith fingernails that shine like justiceAnd
  a voice that is dark like tinted glassShe is
  fast, thorough, and sharp as a tackShes touring
  the facility and picking up slackI want a girl
  with a short skirt,And a long, long jacket

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• I want a girl with a smooth liquidationI want a
  girl with good dividendsAt citi bank we will
  meet accidentallyWell start to talk when she
  borrows my penShe wants a car with a cup holder
  arm restShe wants a car that will get her
  thereShes changing her name from kiddy to
  karenShes trading her mg for a white chrysler
  le barronI want a girl with a short skirt,And
  aLoooooooong jacket

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Similes

• A figure of speech in which two essentially
  unlike things are compared, often in a phrase
  introduced by like or as .
• Ex.) Armaun ran like the wind.

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Similes in Hip Hop

• "See, I drop the greats like clumsy waiters drop
  plates. - Mr. Man on "Fortified Live," Fortified
  Live
• RRRRROAW RRRROAW like a dungeon dragon, change
  your little drawers because your pants are
  saggin'. - Busta Rhymes on "Scenario," Low End
  Theory
• "I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend
  corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve.
  - Big Boi on "Atliens," Atliens 

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YOUR TURN

• 1.) Work in groups of two to rotate around the
  room
• 2.) Read the simile at your station
• 3.) Determine what two objects are being compared
• 4.) Determine why they are being compared, or
  what they both have in common.

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Back to our poems

• 1.) Read through your I Am a _____ poem.
• 2.) Are there any opportunities for you to
  include a simile?
• 3.) Add at least 1-2 similes into your poem.
• 4.) Be prepared to share out your poems simile.

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Are you READY for Personification???
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The Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix

• After all the jacks are in their boxes And the
  clowns have all gone to bed You can hear
  happiness staggering on down the street
  Footprints dressed in red And the wind whispers
  Mary A broom is drearily sweeping Up the
  broken pieces of yesterdays life Somewhere a
  queen is weeping Somewhere a king has no wife
  And the wind, it cries Mary

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• The traffic lights they turn up blue tomorrow
  And shine their emptiness down on my bed The
  tiny island sags downstream Cause the life that
  lived is, is dead And the wind screams Mary

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• Will the wind ever remember
• The names it has blown in the past
• And with his crutch, its old age, and it's
• wisdom
• It whispers no, this will be the last
• And the wind cries Mary

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What are some HUMAN actions?
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YOUR TURN

• 1.) Pick an object from your I Am a ____ poem
• 2.) Write an example of personification using
  this object
• 3.) Figure out a way to include this phrase in
  your poem
• 4.) Try adding more examples of personification!

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Revision and Practice

• 1.) Read your poem aloud to yourself
• 2.) Is there anything you feel you need to add,
  take away or move?
• 3.) Copy it into a final draft
• 4.) Practice reciting it over and over.
  Remember the Book Talk rubric!!!
• 5.) Be prepared to share in front of the group.

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Jeopardy Review and Closing!!!