My Happy Place

Finish the 6 part drawings of your happy place that we began in class, and write one sentence for each drawing using figurative language (six sentences altogether). Don't write your poem yet, we will work on it in class. Below is a list of the figurative language we discussed in class.

Figurative Language

Imagery: Vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste).
ex:    A host of vibrant, golden daffodils;
          Beside the icy lake, beneath the giant trees,
          Fluttering and dancing in the sweet, cool breeze.
          Continuous as the stars that shine in the blackest night
          And twinkle on the endless Milky Way

          The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red, and yellow leaves that were beginning to make their decent to the ground.

Alliteration: The repetition of a single letter in the alphabet, or a combination of letters.
ex:    Peter Piper picked a peck of pickle peppers.
          She sells seashells by the seashore.

Metaphor: A form of comparison that directly compares two unlike things.
ex:    My baby sister's a doll.
          All the world’s a stage.

Simile: Comparing two things using like or as.
ex:    Love is like the sea.
          As shiny as diamonds.

Onomatopoeia: A single word, or group of words that sounds like the thing it refers to
ex:    Six burgers were sizzling on the grill.
          Baripity baripity went the old truck.

Personification: Speaking of something that is not human as if it had human abilities and human reactions.
ex:    I could hear Hawaii calling my name.
          The blizzard swallowed the town.

Hyperbole: An extreme exaggeration used to emphasize a point.
Ex:     An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
          I’m so hungry I could eat a cow.

Idiom: Groups of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary meaning of the words.
ex:     “Put a lid on it!” The teacher shouted.
          That test was a piece of cake.