WHO WILL WIN?I know it's been awhile since we've done anything with our teams: the iguanas and the heroes, but in looking at the current grade book, I thought we could all use a little extra credit, SO......
Here's the competition:
INSTRUCTIONS: Provide the definition (please be thorough) of ONE of the following literary terms AND provide an example:
allusion, foreshadowing, hyperbole, cliche, metaphor, irony, imagery, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, genre, connotation, denotation, stream-of-consciousness, oxymoron, allegory, reversal
EXAMPLE: narrator: the voice of the person telling the story, not to be confused with the author's voice. Much of Animal Dreams is narrated by the main character, Codi. She narrates from first-person, limited point of view.
***The first team to have 6 DIFFERENT team members respond to a DIFFERENT TERM wins 5 extra credit points per team member. (REMEMBER: 5 points raises a timed writing by one letter grade). Team members MUST list their team name after their response or it doesn't count.
***RULE: once a term is used by a team member, no member of either team may use it again. This is so we don't have 12 people define hyperbole, giving the same definition and example. The idea is for everyone to define a different term.
***If you have forgotten which team you are on, check the archived posts. I posted it some time ago, and you can still find it on the blog.
13 comments:
Oxymoron
Definition: figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect.
Examples: deafening silence, living dead, pretty ugly.
Heroes
Hyperbole
Definition: an obvious, intentional exaggeration; a type of figurative language not intended to be taken literally.
Examples: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse; I nearly died laughing.
Heroes
Alliteration
Definition: the repetition of the same consonant sound in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of the word.
Examples: She saw seashells by the sea shore; horrendous horrors haunted Hellen's happiness
Iquanas :]
Genre
Definition: A type or class of a literary or artistic work.
Examples: Drama, Comedy, or Romance
Iguanas
Foreshadowing: the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature
Ex:When Hamlet’s father came to him as a ghost to inform him of his murder, this caused a rage within Hamlet that foreshadows his revenge
Heroes!
Cliche
a trite, stereotyped expression
strong as an ox, dead as a doornail, head in the clouds
iguanas :)
Metaphor
Definition:a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
Examples:
-Love is a crazy rollercoaster.
-Choices are the crosswords of life.
-Language is a road map of a culture.
Metaphor
Definition:a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
Examples:
-Love is a crazy rollercoaster.
-Choices are the crosswords of life.
-Language is a road map of a culture.
personification
definition: a figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person
Example: "Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
Heroes! =)
Allusion
Definition: An indirect reference to some piece of knowledge not actually mentioned. Allusions usually come from a body of information that the author presumes the reader will know
Examples: Martin Luther King, Jr., alluded to the Gettysburg Address in starting his "I Have a Dream" speech by saying 'Five score years ago...";
Heroes
IRONY-the use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
example: Mother will be happy to hear what you have done now.
>>>heroes.
-Have a great day everyone. =)
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