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Sensory Details and figurative language

What are the five senses???


Taste
Touch

Hear
See

Smell

In your notes, write a sentence about summer..

Think about summer. What do you


TASTE TOUCH SEE HEAR SMELL

Your writing should create a visual for readers.


The scorching summer heat has lost its sizzle. The warm summer nights grow shorter. A stray goose streaks the pale purple sky. A golden maple leaf tumbles to the ground. A crisp chill strikes the morning air with a faint tap

Writing, like other things, needs SHOW autumn! Dont LIFE! tell about it!

Make sure to use vocabulary that appeals to ones SENSES!!

Figurative language
Figurative language is a word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness.

Simile
A simile uses the words like or as to compare one object or idea with another to suggest they are alike.
Example: she is as busy as a bee. Write your own simile.

I am hungry as a horse.

You run like a rabbit.

She is happy as a clam.

He is sneaky as a snake.

Metaphor
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using like or as.
She is a work horse! Write your own metaphor.

The girl was a fish in the water.

The clown was a feather floating away.

Hyperbole
An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
Example: I was so thirsty, I could have drank the ocean!

Idiom
A natural manner of speaking to a native speaker of a language. Its raining cats and dogs. Write your own example

Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday.

Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmys on Tuesday.

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Onomatopoeia
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named Example: boom, sizzle
Write your own onomatopoeia.

Yeeeeee Ahhhhhhhh

Swish swish swish

Chug chug chug!!

Glippp Gluppp Gluppp

Personification
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman.
Example: The chair screamed when I sat in it! Write your own example:

The flowers danced in the wind.

The friendly gates welcomed us.

The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution.

Alliteration
refers to the repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases
Example: Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

Use either sensory details or figurative language to write a sentence about the following pictures..

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