Tuesday, September 11, 2012

1. accentuate
2. alliteration
3. analogy
4. antibody
5. aspire
6. bamboozle
7. bizarre
8. boisterous
9. boycott
10. camouflage
11. chronology
12. commemorate
13. cower
14. decorum
15. deduction
16. deign
17. despondent
18. dialogue
19. divulge
20. eclectic
21. ellipse
22. embargo
23. enthusiastic
24. exponent
25. exult
26. fallacy
27. flourish
28. formidable
29. gargoyle
30. guerrilla
31. guru
32. heritage
33. hieroglyphic
34. hologram
35. hypocrisy
36. immune
37. impertinent
38. inference
39. introspection
40. jaunty
41. jovial
42. kilometer
43. labyrinth
44. laconic
45. lichen
46. light-year
47. maneuver
48. marsupial
49. metaphor
50. mosaic

51. mutation
52. nebula
53. nocturnal
54. nuisance
55. omnivore
56. outrageous
57. ozone
58. parasite
59. participle

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Identifying Poetic Devices

Directions: Write which technique is being used on the line.  There may be more than one correct answer; you 
may write more than one answer.  Then, explain how you know your answer.  Slashes represent line breaks.   

Answers: alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia, idiom, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification. 

Example 1. This falling spray of snow-flakes is / a handful of dead Februaries 

What technique is being used? Personification and Alliteration 

Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification 

Explain how you figured it out: 
  Februaries can’t die like humans can; therefore it is an example of personification.  Also, many words 
begin with the letter “F” or “S”, so it also has alliteration.   

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Story elements

                              “When Gertrude Grew Great”  

1. Author’s Purpose: inform  
Why did the author write this? 

2.  Genre: fiction    Subgenre: Informational 
Ex: Nonfiction, fiction, or folklore           Ex: Autobiography, science fiction, fable, informational writing, etc. 

Friday, April 20, 2012

last Summary hit.



                        The notebook 
                     By Nicholas Sparks
      
 The notebook is about Noah, a man who fell in love with this girl named Allison, She comes from a privileged family.They met in the summer time in New Bern, North Carolina. They had a good relationship,but the only problem was Allison's parents Disapproved of the relationship so much they left North Carolina. Years have passed and Allison is now engaged to this man named Lon, When Allison tells Noah the news I think part of him had died because he was upset,and he kept begging her not to merry him.At the end of the book,both Allison and Noah are very old and in a retirement home.Allison has had alztimers for awhile and always forgets that noah is her husband. So to remind her he would read her her own diary that talks about how they fell in love. The book ends with both of them laying in the bed together, and then they both die together.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Author's purpose


Makes Predictions/Inferences/Draws Conclusions:
RL.02.RS.09.01
“Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughe