Comprehension + Editing

Comprehension

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What will we learn today?

• What are the common figurative languages?

• What are the common connectives?

Open Ended

Have you ever done something you've regretted? What is it?

Common Figurative Language

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Alliteration (Repeating Letters)

• Mickey Mouse

• Spongebob Squarepants

• She sells seashells by the seashore.

Personification (Human actions on non-living things)

• The sun is smiling at me.

• The street is calling out to me.

• The leaves danced in the wind.

Hyperbole (Exaggeration)

• She is as heavy as an elephant.

• Your suitcase weighs a ton!

• I am dying of shame.

Simile (Comparing with "like" or "as")

• as quiet as a mouse

• as angry as a grizzly bear

• sparkled like millions of tiny diamonds

Metaphor (Direct Comparison)

• She has a heart of stone.

• Time is money.

• You are my sunshine.

Multiple Choice

Kisses are the flowers of affection.

This is an example of:

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

Like a house on stilts,

a bull moose stands in the shallows.

This is an example of:

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

The stars will cry.

This is an example of:

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

My heart is a stereo.

This is an example of:

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

The raindrops danced on the table top.

This is an example of:

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

The kangaroo kicked the kid.

This is an example of:

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

Your eyes sparkled like a diamond.

This is an example of:

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

My heart smiles whenever I see you.

This is an example of:

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

The wind whistled through the trees during the storm.

This is an example of:

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

Love is a garden that needs help to grow.

This is an example of:

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

To make you happy, I would give you the world

This is an example of:

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

The terrible tiger tored the towel.

This is an example of:

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

There’s enough food in the cupboard to feed an entire army!

This is an example of:

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Select

I am as hungry as a bear!

This is an example of:

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

“It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped,

And whirr when it stood still.

I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will.”

This is an example of:

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Types of Connectives

Adding, Time, Cause/Effect, Contrasting

Adding Connectives

• and

• moreover

• also

• as well as

• furthermore

Time Connectives

• next

• then

• finally

• meanwhile

• eventually

Cause/Effect Connectives

• because

• therefore

• so

• consequently

• as a result of

Contrasting Connectives

• however

• alternatively

• although

• except

• unless