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Literary Devices Workshop: Identify and Apply

Join us for an interactive workshop where we will learn to identify and apply various literary and poetic devices to interpret meaning. This workshop will include activities such as Trashketball and creating Metaphor/Simile collages. Don't forget your clickers!

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Literary Devices Workshop: Identify and Apply

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  1. October 24 and October 25, 2012 • DLT: I can identify and apply various literary and poetic devices in order to interpret its meaning. • You will need your clickers! • Bell Ringer Numbers 39-41

  2. Flex Group Day • You will be going to different rooms to participate in different learning activities. • Each Teacher will be recording participation points and distribute back to your English 2 teacher.

  3. Trashketball Figurative Language

  4. Rules of Trashketball • Stay in your seats at all times. • You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer to a question AND • Write ONE response to the question on a sheet of paper. • All teams will hold up their answers. • If you are correct, your team will get the opportunity to shoot the correct response into the trashcan from a 1, 2, or 3 point line. • If the shot is made, the team gets extra-credit. • Shots will be made after ALL the questions have been answered.

  5. 1 A boy told me that if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him.

  6. Answer Personification

  7. 2 Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! It filled the can, it covered the floor, It cracked the window and blocked the door, The garbage rolled on down the hall, It raised the roof, it broke the wall… At last the garbage reached so high That finally it touched the sky.

  8. Answer Hyperbole

  9. 3 Fast breaks. Lay ups. Nothing but a hot Swish of strings like silk Ten feet out. When girls Cheered on the sidelines.

  10. Answer Simile

  11. 4 Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  12. Answer Metaphor

  13. 5 It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee;- And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

  14. Answer Hyperbole

  15. 6 A big room with heavy wooden tables, heavy oak chairs. To the left side the card catalogue. All those books–another world–just waiting at my fingertips.

  16. Answer Metaphor

  17. 7

  18. Answer Personification

  19. 8 Better you should have a nose impertinent1 as a flower, sensitive As a root; 1. Something impertinentis improperly bold or rude.

  20. Answer Simile

  21. 10 Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling– Look out how you use proud words.

  22. Answer Personification

  23. Read and Annotate • Read and annotate your poem, individually. • Be sure to use your annotation key and TP-CASTT.

  24. Create • Create your own “I Am” poem. • You may use the template, if needed.

  25. Design a Metaphor/simile collage • Use magazines and cut out words or pictures to illustrate metaphors or similes. • Metaphors and similes should express how you feel about poetry. • Example: • Poetry is • Poetry is as beautiful as a • Poetry is as hard as a

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