10.17 - Figurative Language: You Do It

Today we reviewed the figures of speech that we addressed yesterday (synecdoche, metonymy, and onomatopoeia) and looked at the remaining figures of speech on our analysis sheet (personification, hyperbole, and symbolism).

Everyone then had the rest of the period to put these devices to use in their own writing. We broke the remaining class time up into two portions of writing. One portion was focused on playing with poetry and the other portion was focused on playing with short fiction (stores or vignettes). Everyone could start on whichever style of writing they wanted to and then I called a switch halfway through.

There were activity cards available for people's inspiration throughout the activity. If you'd like to check out some of these activity cards, you can use my activity card Tumblr here.

At the end of class, everyone shared out their favorite use of figurative language from the day's writing.


Homework:

Type or formally write out one of the pieces you wrote today in class.

As you reproduce this piece of writing, feel free to revise any mistakes or make additions that you feel will strengthen your writing.

At the bottom of your polished draft of this piece of writing, provide an author’s statement that identifies how the piece uses figurative language to help develop tone and the overall message.

(100 word minimum)