FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

IMAGERY

PERSONIFICATION

IDIOMS

IMAGERY

• Words and phrases that appeal to readers’ five senses. Writers use sensory details to help readers imagine how things look, feel, smell, sound, and taste

• Images, especially word pictures or figures of speech in writing

• Use of visual details or details that appeal to other senses

Three Definitions From Three Different Places

DIRECTIONS

READ THE POEM.

BE SURE TO PAY ATTENTION TO DETAILS WITHIN THE POEM.

THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE POEM THAT COME AFTER.

The Shark By: E. J. Pratt

He seemed to know the harbor,So leisurely he swam;His fin,Like a piece of sheet-iron,Three-cornered,And with knife-edge,Stirred not a bubbleAs it movedWith its base-line on the water.

His body was tubularAnd taperedAnd smoke-blue,And as he passed the wharfHe turned,And snapped at a flat-fishThat was dead and floating.And I saw the flash of a white throat,And a double row of white teeth,And eyes of metallic grey,Hard and narrow and slit.

Then out of the harbor,With that three-cornered finShearing without a bubble the waterLithely,Leisurely,He swam—That strange fish,Tubular, tapered, smoke-blue,Part vulture, part wolf,Part neither—for his blood was cold.

What animal do you think this is?Did the poem give you a mental image of what the animal looks like?

Can you give any examples from the poem that helped you picture this animal?

PERSONIFICATION

• the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstractnotions, especially as a rhetorical figure.

• When an author gives something that isn’t human the characteristics of a human

• when you make a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do

Three Definitions From Three Different Places

Personification in a Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i0HDygKdLM&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active Start at 1:15

Directions For Activity

CHOOSE AN ITEM ON YOUR DESK, NEAR YOU IN THE ROOM OR ONE THAT WILL APPEAR ON

THE SCREEN.

NEXT YOU’RE GOING TO BRING THAT OBJECT TO LIFE.

GIVE IT HUMAN QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS.

Bring Life to These Objects

IDIOMS

• an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements

• an expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words

• a phrase whose meaning cannot be understood from the dictionary definitions of each word taken separately

Three Definitions From Three Different Places

Taking Idioms Literally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy6GzaLxhQw&playnext=1&list=PL296E36984323BF35&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Directions for activity

MATCH THE IDIOM ON THE LEFT WITH ITS CORRECT MEANING ON THE

RIGHT.

Idiom Activity• Give me a hand

• Hit the books

• Cat's got your tongue

• Zip your lip

• Cold turkey

• You're pulling my leg

• Wear your heart on your sleeve

• In the doghouse

• When pigs fly

• Put your foot in your mouth

• On pins and needles

• I'll be there with bells on

• Bite off more than you can chew

• Toss your cookies

• Keep an eye on you

• Be Quiet

• To stop doing something abruptly

• Display feelings openly

• To say something stupid

• To be worried or anxious

• To study hard or do homework

• Doing something more difficult than you can handle

• Not speaking

• Telling a lie or tall tale

• To vomit

• Being in trouble

• Help me

• Watching you

• Being there eagerly and willingly

• It will never happen