10.09 - Simile and Metaphor

We started today's class by looking at the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic included below and responding to the following prompt:

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In your writer’s journal:

Which type of figurative language is this comic using (in a visual form)?

Explain how you know.

Identify and explain specific critiques of his typical school day that Calvin is making.

After everyone had a chance to respond to this prompt, we discussed the various answers that people came up with. This discussion lead us back to looking at simile and metaphor which everyone was working with for homework. In class we reviewed similes, ironic similes, metaphor, and implied metaphor.

For homework tonight, everyone should work with extended metaphor and mixed metaphor.

In the last few minutes of class, we reviewed the set 4 roots and prefixes practice answers.

Handouts:

Figurative Language handout

Practice with Simile and Metaphor
(This sheet is somewhat different from the one given out in class, but has the same sections and information)

Homework:

Complete the extended metaphor and mixed metaphor sections on the Practice with Simile and Metaphor sheet.
Practice with Simile and Metaphor

Prepare for the set 4 roots and prefixes quiz on Friday.
Roots and Prefixes set 4 - Word List
Roots and Prefixes set 4 - Practice

If you have not done so already, turn in your Neruda Tones analysis for "United Fruit Co." or "Standard Oil Co.".
Neruda Annotation and Analysis Prompt
"United Fruit Co." and "Standard Oil Co" by Pablo Neruda