Smiley Face Tricks

Smiley Face Tricks

1. Magic Three Three parallel groups of words, usually separated by commas, that create a poetic rhythm or add support for a point, especially when the three word groups have their own modifiers.

1. Magic Three Example #1 Instead of staying dark, day and night, every morning shutters fly open, the sun streams in a tidal wave of gold light, and our family cat meows persistently until we all awaken to greet our day.

1. Magic Three Example #2 Although I try to inhale deeply, I cannot regulate the rise and fall of my heavy chest. My palms become sticky and shaky, my neck tingles with anticipation, my body begins to feel limp and cold and white like a corpse.

1. Magic Three Example #3 Pets: Before Magic 3 Every morning my dog jumps on my bed and wakes me up. Example #3 Pets: After Magic 3 With a leap onto the bed, Hudson gives me a wet, slobbery kiss, his tail thumps loudly and his cold, freckled nose lets me know it is time to rise and shine.

1. Magic Three Example #4 School: Before Magic 3 I like school because all my friends are there and I like to talk to them. Example #4 School: After Magic 3 I walk to school and think about the Pod filled with people banging lockers, my friends huddled together, and everyone sharing their latest news. .

1. Magic Three Example #5 Sports: Before Magic 3 Baseball is my favorite sport because I like to go to the ballpark. Example #5 Sports: After Magic 3 I love going to the baseball park. I can smell the sizzling hot dogs, taste the ice cold sodas and feel the excitement of the crowd waiting for the next big run. .

1. Magic Three Group Example After they broke up, every time Johnny saw her in the hall his world felt like it was coming to an end.

1. Magic Three Partners’ Turn!! Although the twins were usually best friends, today they were mad.

1. Magic Three Your Turn!! Instead of greeting her with a purr, the enraged cat hissed.

2. Figurative Language Non-literal comparisons– such as similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperboles – add “spice” to writing and can help paint a more vivid picture for the reader.

2. Figurative Language Simile Simile is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as. Example The bear was like a fuzzy coconut.

2. Figurative Language Simile The graveyard, now still with age, stands amidst a sea of grass. The gravestones are crooked, like teeth badly in need of braces (Matthew).

2. Figurative Language Group Example The tornado roared like a thundering freight train.

2. Figurative Language Your Turn!! The enraged viper hissed like a broken pipe on a radiator.

2. Figurative Language Metaphor Metaphor comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be,” but not using like or as.

2. Figurative Language Metaphor A metaphor establishes a relationship at once; it leaves more to the imagination. It is a shortcut to the meaning; it sets two unlike things side by side and makes us see the likeness between them.

2. Figurative Language Metaphor When Robert Burns wrote "My love is like a red, red rose" he used a simile. Robert Herrick wrote "You are a tulip" he used a metaphor.

2. Figurative Language Metaphor The memory of her son was haunting every step through the broken-down trailer. a ghost from the past,

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2. Figurative Language Group Example The excited puppy was skittering through the room. a spinning top

2. Figurative Language Your Turn!! The storm was an ripping through the forest. infuriated dragon

2. Figurative Language Hyperbole Hyperbole is a figure of speech which is an exaggeration. Persons often use expressions such as "I nearly died laughing," "I was hopping mad," and "I tried a thousand times." Such statements are not literally true, but people make them to sound impressive or to emphasize something, such as a feeling, effort, or reaction.

2. Figurative Language Hyperbole There is the light-blue sky. no escaping It is wherever I am. It goes wherever I go.

2. Figurative Language Your Turn!! The wrestlers biceps were thicker than tree trunks, and twice as strong.

2. Figurative Language Hyperbole Challenges!!! Pick any three and complete with a partner. 1. The truck driver was so powerful...2. Her hair was so silky...3. The rollercoaster made the kids so sick...4. The car was so fast...5. His father was so mad...6. I was so hungry...7. Class was so boring...8. I worked so hard...9. I was so happy...

2. Figurative Language Personification Personification is a type of figurative language in which a non-living object is given human qualities.

2. Figurative Language Personification Example The roadway had been worn down to a thin layer of asphalt and lay waiting like it had been doing for many years, stretching farther and farther, trying to get a glimpse of better lands (Kris).

3. Special Details for Effect Instead of general, vague descriptions, specific sensory details help the reader visualize the person, place, thing, or idea that the writer is describing.

3. Special Details for Effect Example The country life was a little boy’s dream come true. I was released into the woods for a day of exploration. There was not a creek in sight that was not given the chance to become the wildest, most dangerous river rapids this side of Mississippi. Time and time again, my grandfather’s Great Dane, Brutus, was put to use as my sturdy white-water raft, and dried-out birch limbs were used for strong oars. After a few smoldering hours in the sun, Brutus finally convinced me that no matter how big and powerful a dog may appear, even big dogs need to rest their bones sometime during the day. Ah, the creeks, Brutus, the oars, the sun – no boy would ever pass this up (Dodd).

3. Special Details for Effect Exercise Now, follow the instructions EXACTLY on the slides to follow. We are going to show you why, if you master this technique, you will become skilled at…yes… MIND CONTROL which is what all good writing is really about. Mind Control means “How do I get MY picture into YOUR head??”

3. Special Details for Effect Describe Jane.

3. Special Details for Effect So, what’s your picture?

Why aren’t you getting my picture?

3. Special Details for Effect Jane had strange clothes. NOW describe Jane.

3. Special Details for Effect So, what’s your picture?

Is it like this?

Describe Jane (again). Use Sensory Details How are other people acting when she enters? Smell like? What does she look like? Sound like?

3. Special Details for Effect Janekindled the room with color. In pink and white polka dot leggings and a blue and green paisley shirt, her clothes crashed across her body like a thundering ocean wave. Perched atop her coiled hair, a proud twelve-inch purple feather waved from an orange beret. She sailed delicately across the room in her clickey-clackey army boots.

3. Special Details for Effect NOW do you get the picture??

3. Special Details for Effect Now it’s your turn. • GROUP WORK: Try your hand at this: Devin’s room was messy. NO!! YOU MAY NOT USE THE WORDS ROOM MESSY DEVIN

Now it’s YOUR turn. 3. Special Details for Effect Brooke spiked the volleyball. NO!! YOU MAY NOT USE THE WORDS VOLLEYBALL SPIKED BROOKE

4. Repetition for Effect Writers often repeat specially chosen words or phrases to make a point, to stress certain ideas for the readers.

4. Repetition for Effect Example Words flow with iambic pentameter as I profoundly recite witticisms like sonnets from Shakespeare’s pen. It’s always the right words at the right time in just the right cadence, and the subjects thereof are justly moved (Cathy).

4. Repetition for Effect • Example • And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. • I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.“ • I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. • I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. • I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. • I have a dream today!

4. Repetition for Effect Group Example The batter struck out.

4. Repetition for Effect Individual Example Mom yelled.

4. Repetition for Effect Individual Example The vampire flashed a toothy smile.

5. Expanded Moment Instead of “speeding” past a moment, writers often emphasize it by “expanding” the action.

5. Expanded Moment Example When I pedal to a stop, I kick off my sandy shoes and remove my gold and lavender kite from my backpack. The wind picks up the graceful creature and lets it soar among the seagulls. As I ease myself into the water – the string wrapped securely around my wrist – I can first smell, then taste the ocean’s saltiness. Freezing cold, the water numbs my toes, and I feel nothing but a sharp, teasing sensation. As I sit on my cushion of sand, I slowly wiggle my fingers and toes, gradually submerging them completely. I hold the sand up in the air and let it slip through my fingers like stickier versions of particles in an hour glass. I stretch out completely now and watch the wind’s fingers take my kite higher still (Marcus).

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