Friday, January 22, 2010

comma what?

My father had left our house in the midst of a fight between Lindsey and my mother. My mother was trying to get Lindsey to go with her to the Y, to swim. Without thinking, Lindsey had blared "I'd rather die!" at the top of her lungs. My father watched as my mother froze, then burst fleeing to their bedroom to wail behind the door. He quietly, tucked his notebook in his jacket pocket, took the car keys off the hook by the back door, and snuck out.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Literary Elements: TAKS PT 3


1. Satire- a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn

2. irony- a pretense of ingnorance and of willingness to learn from another assummed in order to make the others false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning

3. analogy- inference that if two of more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others

4. Foreshadowing- to represent indicate or typify beforehand

Thursday, January 7, 2010

figurative Language

Figurative- expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another with which it may be regarded as analogous.
figure of Speech- a form of espression used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has meaning or connotation familiar to the reader.
imagery- figurative language
trope- the use of a word or expression in a figurative sense.

They are all expressing figurative language.