Smiley Face Tricks

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Smiley Face Tricks
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2 Figurative Language

• Non-literal comparisonssuch as similes,
  metaphors, personification, alliteration, and
  oxymoronadd spice to writing and can help
  paint a more vivid picture for the reader.

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Examples

• My hair is like peach fuzz. (simile)

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• When we first moved into the house on Orchid
  Street, I didnt like it. My room was hot,
  cramped, and stuffy as a train in the middle of
  the Sahara. And the looming skeleton-like gray
  and white frame of the place scared me. I dared
  not imagine living there, but the backyard, oh,
  the backyard. It was a huge, long mass of
  plentifully growing trees and blackberries.
  Goodness, how I loved them. (simile,
  personification)

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• It was a hot July morning, and the last few days
  of freedom before school were slipping by faster
  than a greased ten-foot-long boa constrictor at
  the ice capades. In other words, I only had a
  week and a half to play my brains out both inside
  and outside, and a week and a half before the
  evil schoolwork monsters took over my time, a
  week and a half before life as I had known it
  these past two months was over. (simile,
  exaggeration, personification, exaggeration, and
  Magic 3!)

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Spot the Trick

• Using excerpts from renowned, published authors,
  write down the Magic Three trick on your paper

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• Thick fog was all I could see out my window in
  the morning, and I could feel the claustrophobia
  creeping up on me. You could never see the sky
  here it was like a cage. (personification/allite
  ration, simile)
• S. Meyer, Twilight, 11

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• Thick fog was all I could see out my window in
  the morning, and I could feel the claustrophobia
  creeping up on me. You could never see the sky
  here it was like a cage. (personification/allite
  ration, simile)
• S. Meyer, Twilight, 11

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• Thick fog was all I could see out my window in
  the morning, and I could feel the claustrophobia
  creeping up on me. You could never see the sky
  here it was like a cage. (personification/allite
  ration, simile)
• S. Meyer, Twilight, 11

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• He was trapped inside the Grand Gallery, and
  there existed only one person on earth to whom he
  could pass the torch. Sauniere gazed up at the
  walls of his opulent prison. A collection of the
  worlds most famous paintings seemed to smile
  down on him like old friends. (alliteration,
  assonance, oxymoron, personification/alliteration,
  simile)
• D. Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 5

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• He was trapped inside the Grand Gallery, and
  there existed only one person on earth to whom he
  could pass the torch. Sauniere gazed up at the
  walls of his opulent prison. A collection of the
  worlds most famous paintings seemed to smile
  down on him like old friends. (alliteration,
  assonance, oxymoron, personification/alliteration,
  simile)
• D. Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 5

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• He was trapped inside the Grand Gallery, and
  there existed only one person on earth to whom he
  could pass the torch. Sauniere gazed up at the
  walls of his opulent prison. A collection of the
  worlds most famous paintings seemed to smile
  down on him like old friends. (alliteration,
  assonance, oxymoron, personification/alliteration,
  simile)
• D. Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 5

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• He was trapped inside the Grand Gallery, and
  there existed only one person on earth to whom he
  could pass the torch. Sauniere gazed up at the
  walls of his opulent prison. A collection of the
  worlds most famous paintings seemed to smile
  down on him like old friends. (alliteration,
  assonance, oxymoron, personification/alliteration,
  simile)
• D. Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 5

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• He was trapped inside the Grand Gallery, and
  there existed only one person on earth to whom he
  could pass the torch. Sauniere gazed up at the
  walls of his opulent prison. A collection of the
  worlds most famous paintings seemed to smile
  down on him like old friends. (alliteration,
  assonance, oxymoron, personification/alliteration,
  simile)
• D. Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 5

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• He was trapped inside the Grand Gallery, and
  there existed only one person on earth to whom he
  could pass the torch. Sauniere gazed up at the
  walls of his opulent prison. A collection of the
  worlds most famous paintings seemed to smile
  down on him like old friends. (alliteration,
  assonance, oxymoron, personification/alliteration,
  simile)
• D. Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 5

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• October extinguished itself in a rush of howling
  winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold
  as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning
  and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and
  faces. The skies and the ceiling of the Great
  Hall turned a pale, pearly gray, and the
  mountains around Hogwarts became snowcapped, and
  the temperature in the castle dropped so far that
  many students wore their thick protective dragon
  skin gloves in the corridors between lessons.
  (personification, personification, simile,
  personification, alliteration, Magic 3!)
• J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the OOTP, 401

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• October extinguished itself in a rush of howling
  winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold
  as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning
  and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and
  faces. The skies and the ceiling of the Great
  Hall turned a pale, pearly gray, and the
  mountains around Hogwarts became snowcapped, and
  the temperature in the castle dropped so far that
  many students wore their thick protective dragon
  skin gloves in the corridors between lessons.
  (personification, personification, simile,
  personification, alliteration, Magic 3!)
• J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the OOTP, 401

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• October extinguished itself in a rush of howling
  winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold
  as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning
  and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and
  faces. The skies and the ceiling of the Great
  Hall turned a pale, pearly gray, and the
  mountains around Hogwarts became snowcapped, and
  the temperature in the castle dropped so far that
  many students wore their thick protective dragon
  skin gloves in the corridors between lessons.
  (personification, personification, simile,
  personification, alliteration, Magic 3!)
• J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the OOTP, 401

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• October extinguished itself in a rush of howling
  winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold
  as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning
  and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and
  faces. The skies and the ceiling of the Great
  Hall turned a pale, pearly gray, and the
  mountains around Hogwarts became snowcapped, and
  the temperature in the castle dropped so far that
  many students wore their thick protective dragon
  skin gloves in the corridors between lessons.
  (personification, personification, simile,
  personification, alliteration, Magic 3!)
• J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the OOTP, 401

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• October extinguished itself in a rush of howling
  winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold
  as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning
  and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and
  faces. The skies and the ceiling of the Great
  Hall turned a pale, pearly gray, and the
  mountains around Hogwarts became snowcapped, and
  the temperature in the castle dropped so far that
  many students wore their thick protective dragon
  skin gloves in the corridors between lessons.
  (personification, personification, simile,
  personification, alliteration, Magic 3!)
• J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the OOTP, 401

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• October extinguished itself in a rush of howling
  winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold
  as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning
  and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and
  faces. The skies and the ceiling of the Great
  Hall turned a pale, pearly gray, and the
  mountains around Hogwarts became snowcapped, and
  the temperature in the castle dropped so far that
  many students wore their thick protective dragon
  skin gloves in the corridors between lessons.
  (personification, personification, simile,
  personification, alliteration, Magic 3!)
• J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the OOTP, 401

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• In the shell-shocked kitchen, somewhere near the
  stove, theres an image of a lonely, overworked
  typewriter. It sits in a distant, near-empty
  room. Its keys are faded and a blank sheet waits
  patiently upright in the assumed position. It
  wavers slightly in the breeze from the window.
  Coffee break is nearly over. A pile of paper the
  height of a human stands casually by the door.
  It could easily be smoking. (alliteration,
  personification, personification, alliteration,
  alliteration, personification, personification)
• M. Zusak, The Book Thief, 418

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• In the shell-shocked kitchen, somewhere near the
  stove, theres an image of a lonely, overworked
  typewriter. It sits in a distant, near-empty
  room. Its keys are faded and a blank sheet waits
  patiently upright in the assumed position. It
  wavers slightly in the breeze from the window.
  Coffee break is nearly over. A pile of paper the
  height of a human stands casually by the door.
  It could easily be smoking. (alliteration,
  personification, personification, alliteration,
  alliteration, personification, personification)
• M. Zusak, The Book Thief, 418

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• In the shell-shocked kitchen, somewhere near the
  stove, theres an image of a lonely, overworked
  typewriter. It sits in a distant, near-empty
  room. Its keys are faded and a blank sheet waits
  patiently upright in the assumed position. It
  wavers slightly in the breeze from the window.
  Coffee break is nearly over. A pile of paper the
  height of a human stands casually by the door.
  It could easily be smoking. (alliteration,
  personification, personification, alliteration,
  alliteration, personification, personification)
• M. Zusak, The Book Thief, 418

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• In the shell-shocked kitchen, somewhere near the
  stove, theres an image of a lonely, overworked
  typewriter. It sits in a distant, near-empty
  room. Its keys are faded and a blank sheet waits
  patiently upright in the assumed position. It
  wavers slightly in the breeze from the window.
  Coffee break is nearly over. A pile of paper the
  height of a human stands casually by the door.
  It could easily be smoking. (alliteration,
  personification, personification, alliteration,
  alliteration, personification, personification)
• M. Zusak, The Book Thief, 418

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• In the shell-shocked kitchen, somewhere near the
  stove, theres an image of a lonely, overworked
  typewriter. It sits in a distant, near-empty
  room. Its keys are faded and a blank sheet waits
  patiently upright in the assumed position. It
  wavers slightly in the breeze from the window.
  Coffee break is nearly over. A pile of paper the
  height of a human stands casually by the door.
  It could easily be smoking. (alliteration,
  personification, personification, alliteration,
  alliteration, personification, personification)
• M. Zusak, The Book Thief, 418

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• In the shell-shocked kitchen, somewhere near the
  stove, theres an image of a lonely, overworked
  typewriter. It sits in a distant, near-empty
  room. Its keys are faded and a blank sheet waits
  patiently upright in the assumed position. It
  wavers slightly in the breeze from the window.
  Coffee break is nearly over. A pile of paper the
  height of a human stands casually by the door.
  It could easily be smoking. (alliteration,
  personification, personification, alliteration,
  alliteration, personification, personification)
• M. Zusak, The Book Thief, 418

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• In the shell-shocked kitchen, somewhere near the
  stove, theres an image of a lonely, overworked
  typewriter. It sits in a distant, near-empty
  room. Its keys are faded and a blank sheet waits
  patiently upright in the assumed position. It
  wavers slightly in the breeze from the window.
  Coffee break is nearly over. A pile of paper the
  height of a human stands casually by the door.
  It could easily be smoking. (alliteration,
  personification, personification, alliteration,
  alliteration, personification, personification)
• M. Zusak, The Book Thief, 418

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• In the shell-shocked kitchen, somewhere near the
  stove, theres an image of a lonely, overworked
  typewriter. It sits in a distant, near-empty
  room. Its keys are faded and a blank sheet waits
  patiently upright in the assumed position. It
  wavers slightly in the breeze from the window.
  Coffee break is nearly over. A pile of paper the
  height of a human stands casually by the door.
  It could easily be smoking. (alliteration,
  personification, personification, alliteration,
  alliteration, personification, personification)
• M. Zusak, The Book Thief, 418

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Your Turn!

• Use the following prompt to write for 5 solid
  minutes. Use at least one simile and one set of
  alliteration in your piece.
• Prompt Tell me about a moment or describe
  something from a place you have been to on a
  field trip zoo, skiing, Nature Center, ice
  skating, Lagoon, Playhouse Museum, etc.