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Read “Earthquake Fire: San Francisco, April 1906” at:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a1964/4219864/
A) Find and cite 2 similes:

1. “released like a snapped rubber band” (paragraph 19, line 2)

2. “rippling like waves” (paragraph 3, line 3)

B) Find and cite 1 metaphor:

1. “paris in the west” (paragraph 1, line 3)

C) Find and cite 1 hyperbole:

1. “grabbed san fransisco by the throat and nearly shook it to death” (paragraph 2, line 1)

2. Read “The Story of an Eyewitness” at: https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=24206

A) Find and cite 1 simile:

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B) Find and cite 1 example of repetition:

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C) Find and cite 1 hyperbole:

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3. Go to https://literaryterms.net/rhetorical-device/ to read about literary terms. Find one you

have never heard of before and define it.
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4. Read Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Election Acceptance Speech at

http://obamaspeeches.com/E11-Barack-Obama-Election-Night-Victory-Speech-Grant-Park-
IllinoisNovember-4-2008.htm
A) Find one example of repetition:

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 5. Read the short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury at
https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray
%20Bradbury.pdf
A) Find and cite 3 similes:

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2.

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B) Find and cite 3 metaphors:

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2.

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C) Find the dramatic irony in the story and explain how it is achieved. (Dramatic irony is not actually
figurative language, but a literacy device that is in this story. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows
something the characters don’t know which makes some glaring point and almost makes you wish you
could talk to the characters to help them out! Like if a character says, “This is going to be the best day of
my life” but we know he’s about to get robbed.
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