Welcome to another post. For English, we moved on from looking at the Yellow Brick Road to another short story, The Lake. After reading the short story, we were given a few language features and give their own definition and an example from the story.
This is a post from 16 September 2021 (last week).
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| The Lake by Ray Bradbury Adapted from: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18068093-the-lake |
Listing
Definition: A grouping of three or more things.
Example: "Then the wave gave me back to the sky, the sand, the children yelling."
Figurative Language
Simile
Definition: Comparing two things using like or as.Example: "It was like nailing summer into a series of coffins."
Metaphor
Definition:Example: "There was a moment of green silence."
Personification
Definition: Metaphor giving a human characteristic that is not human.Example:
Dialogue
Definition: A conversation.Example: "Wait'll I watch my goose-bumps".
Emotive language
Definition: The usage of emotive words to influence the reader. Ex. joyful, happy, sad, exciting, cheerful.Example: "All of the hot-dog stands were boarded up with strips of golden planking, sealing in all the mustard, onion, meat odors of the long, joyful summer."
Allusions
Definition: Indirect reference to another well-known text.
Example: "I stood there, watching the sun take away the water beads on my arms. I replaced them with goose-pimples."
