10.17 - Metonymy, Synecdoche, Onomatopoeia

We started today's class by watching the following clip (see below) from the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (which is an adaptation of the book with the same title).

In this clip, we were most focused on the portion occurring at 1:00 to about 3:30.

This clip provided context for the comic and writing prompt with which we started class (see Drive presentation below). After everyone had time to respond to this prompt, we came back together and people shared out their responses to the writing prompt. This lead us into a presentation on what metonymy, synecdoche, and onomatopoeia are and how they are used in writing (see Drive presentation below).

People then blindly picked a passage that made use of one (or sometimes more) of these devices, found other people that had ended up picking the same passage, and analyzed the passage with the group. Groups had five minutes to identify the figurative device being used and analyze how that device enhanced the tone of the piece. Groups then shared out their analysis and we discussed their responses to help us better understand these devices (the passages can be seen at the end of the Drive presentation).

Presentation: Metonymy, Synecdoche, and Onomatopoeia