Scarlet Ibis Figurative Language

What is mood?

• The feeling words give to literature that the reader feels

• A way of feeling warm when it is cold

• A type of language used in other countries

• Doom spelled backwards

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is a simile?

• A type of smile that happens in other works of literature

• An ancient type of art that becomes seen in books

• A comparison between two seemingly unlike things using like or as

• A way to eat bat with a special hot sauce

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What words give off a dark mood in the following sentence?

"The flower garden was stained with rotting brown magnolia petals, and iron-weeds grew rank amid the purple phlox."

• Flower Garden

• Rotting Brown Rank

• Amid Purple Phlox

• Magnolia Petals

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

In the following Metaphor, what is being compared?

"I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death."

• Life and Death

• Knowing to a terrible thing

• Vines to life

• Pride to a seed

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

• A simile makes the language more complicated

• A metaphor uses like or as

• A simile is like cheese fries because it tastes so good

• A simile uses like or as and a metaphor does not

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does the following quote tell us about the narrator?

"Of course, he wasn’t a crazy crazy like old Miss Leedie, who was in love with President Wilson and wrote him a letter every day, but was a nice crazy, like someone you meet in your dreams."

• He loved Doodle and thought he was unique

• He liked to make fun of Doodle

• The narrator didn't want a brother

• The narrator wanted a sister instead of Doodle.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What does the following simile compare?

"The five o’clocks by the chimney still marked time, but the oriole nest in the elm was untenanted and rocked back and forth like an empty cradle."

• Chimney and the Elm

• Flowers to a cradle

• Oriole nest to an empty cradle

• Time to a nest

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What does the following Simile compare?

"Trembling, he’d push himself up, turning first red, then a soft purple, and finally collapse back onto the bed like an old worn out doll."

• Doodle to a worn out doll

• Red to a purple color

• A tremble to a color

• Purple to a doll

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is used on the following quote?

"We were down in Old Woman Swamp and it was spring and the sick-sweet smell of bay flowers hung everywhere like a mournful song"

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What image can you see in the following quote?

“Oh, you can walk,” I said, and I took him by the arms and stood him up. He collapsed onto the grass like a half-empty flour sack"

• Doodle jumping around

• Doodle limp like a flower sack

• Doodle walking

• Doodle running

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1