Creative Writing Week 1

The choice of words or the style used by an individual when speaking or writing.

(a)  

Identify the figures of speech used: Big boys whistled at girls & swandived from the tallest trees.

• simile and metaphor

• onomatopoeia and metaphor

• personification and metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Identify the figures of speech used: Hundreds of lanes

Snaked through oaks, wild fruit

& Honeysuckle.

• simile and metaphor

• hyperbole and personification

• hyperbole and simile

• onomatopoeia and metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What figures of speech are used? Outside A few cars hissing past, Fog hanging like old 45 Coats between the trees

• onomatopoeia and simile

• personification and simile

• metaphor and personification

• onomatopoeia and metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which senses do you connect to these verses? A few cars hissing past, //Fog hanging like old // Coats between the trees. //I took my girl’s hand In mine for two blocks

Clef note, omberture, staff, and a cappella are all examples of musical -

• colloquialisms
• slang
• jargon
• diction

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Walter: Reckon I have. Almost died first year I come to school and et them pecans — folks say he pizened ‘em and put ‘em over on the school side of the fence.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Walter's comments contain many examples of 

• slang
• dialect
• jargon
• connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

Diction is the literary term that means

• The connections we have with words
• An author's choice of words
• The definition of words
• The common way of speaking with friends

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4