Figurative Language

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Figurative Language

• 3 Types of figurative language are
• Metaphor, a comparison of 2 things not using like
  or as
• Simile, comparison of two things using like or as
• Personification, the giving of human qualities to
  an animal, object, or idea

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METAPHORE

• If every life is a river pg. 1 Incantation

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SIMILE

• I saw the way the soldiers treated this man. As
  if he were a bird caught in a snare made of his
  own bones. pg. 8 Incantation

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Personification

• a monster set loose in our midst. The fire was
  his breath, the jeers all around were his
  snarls. pg. 11 Incantation

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Hyperbole

• An exaggeration so great no one would ever
  believe it.
• He made my skin crawl.

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Remember the 6 active reading strategies..

• Predict
• Visualize
• Connect
• Question
• Clarify
• Evaluate

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While readingAshes

• Use the 6 active reading strategies
• Look for figurative language.
• Note pages where you are recording your
  information using 2 column notes (summer
  reading?)

Where What Happened
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• Reflection
• Why would Estrellas Mother feel the following is
  a secret never to be spoken?
• all people are made from the same dust. When
  our days here are gone, all men and women enter
  the same garden. My mother had put a finger to
  her lips when she had told me this. She taught
  me some of what she had learned from her father,
  secret things I must never repeat.