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Unit 3.1 ELA Poetry Prose & Figurative Language

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  • A comparison of two things that says that something is something else.
    Metaphors
  • How does the simile work to create imagery in the poem?
    by helping the reader to visualize how words can be uplifting like when people see a rainbow.
  • Used to create a mental image, a feeling, or to draw out a particular emotion from the reader.
    Simile
  • When you put the most important ideas or information of a text into your own words.
    Summarizing
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  • What paints a picture for the reader and focuses on the feelings and ideas associated with it?
    Figurative language
  • Explain how the author develops the theme  “Hold your memories close because they do not last forever?”
    by the speaker sharing memories of summer that they want to remember as winter approaches.
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  • 1.Restate the major events in order. 2.Include important details about what the characters do, say, and feel 3. Include the theme 4. Don't write your opinion.
    How to write a summary
  • Used to create a feeling for the reader by allowing them to hear the event in the poem.
    Onomatopoeia
  • idiom
    expressions that mean something different than the words in the phrase might say.
  • Story made of dialogue. Includes stage directions, can have multiple scenes, characters speaking to each other, and narration.
    drama
  • The fresh and juicy orange is very cold and sweet.
    Imagery
  • How does the personification of summer work with the imagery created in the first stanza?
    work together to convey the pleasantness and fun of summer in order to highlight why the speaker wanted it to stay
  • Used to appeal to the reader’s emotions by emphasizing an idea by forcing a feeling.
    Hyperbole
  • Explain the idiom: It’s so obvious, but no one wants to say it. There’s an elephant in the room.
    Something that everyone knows, but no one wants to say.
  • Characterization
    a character's thoughts, words, and actions
  • Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers.
    Alliteration
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  • Representing a thing or idea as a person OR giving a human like quality to something not human.
    Personification
  • he forming of a word to imitate a natural sound.
    Onomatopoeia
  • How is the theme of a story developed?
    by including events that help the reader learn that an important lesson
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  • The repetition of usually the first sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.
    Alliteration
  • Used to emphasize a concept, draw attention to a phrase, or create a sound related to the poem content while reading.
    Alliteration
  • Used to present a more creative/more descriptive way of saying the same thing. They often help to create a feeling or add humor in context.
    Idiom
  • What does the prefix -anti mean?
    against
  • How does the author develop a character's perspective throughout a story?
    by including details, events and dialouge to show/explain how a character changes a particular attitude toward or way of thinking about something?
  • How does the author develop the speaker’s perspective of winter?
    uses descriptive words about winter to express the difficulties of that season.
  • what does the suffix -ist mean?
    a person who is or a person who does.
  • How does the personification in the first stanza contribute to the overall meaning of the poem?
    it emphasizes the speaker’s love of summer.
  • How does setting contribute or add to the plot of a story?
    by helping us understand when and where the events are occuring.
  • Explain the idiom: It’s raining cats and dogs. We’re going to get soaked!
    It’s raining very heavily.
  • what can be used to identify a character's perspective?
    Details in a story like a character’s thoughts, words, actions, and feelings
  • Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
    Hyperbole
  • The explanation was as clear as mud.
    Simile
  • Used to appeal to the reader’s emotions by creating a mental picture and enhancing understanding of the text.
    Imagery
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  • How does the simile in the second stanza contribute to the overall meaning of the poem?
    expresses how cold winters are. This helps to better understand why the speaker wants summer to stay.
  • h
  • Read the underlined simile from the poem. How does it contribute to the meaning of the poem?
    explains that words can help cheer people up
  • what that character thinks or feels about something.
    Character’s Perspective
  • The underlying message or lesson of the text.
    theme
  • Poetic elements
    rhyme, meter, line breaks, and imagery
  • Writing about objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our five physical senses and paints a vivid picture for the reader.
    Imagery
  • define Implied
    not directly stated
  • This backpack weighs a million pounds!
    Hyperbole
  • When something is directly stated in the text it is...
    explicit
  • She has a heart of gold.
    Metaphor
  • Bam! Whirl! Thump! Boom!
    Onomatopoeia
  • d
  • b
  • A comparison of two unlike things, often using the words like or as to compare.
    Similes
  • What is the meaning of the word perplexed, as it is used in the sentence?
    confused
  • Select two lines from the poem that support the development of the speaker’s perspective about Winter?
    “The lake like cold, forbidding glass 一” (stanza 2, line 1)  “Hold memories of each 一” (stanza 4, line 2)
  • What is the speaker’s perspective on words?
    that words are a great tool that can make you feel different emotions.
  • Used to relate to the reader by presenting characteristics that they are familiar with, to understand concepts in text.
    Personification
  • Used to create a mental image, a feeling, or to draw out a particular emotion from the reader.
    Metaphor
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