Know these terms

 

PERSONIFICATION:  (when you give people-like qualities to inanimate objects)

• The wind whistled a happy tune.

Simile: comparison using “like” or “as”

• The wind whistled like a train coming into the station.
• The wind whistled angry as a teacher when his students don’t do their homework
• Bent double like old beggars under sacks.

Metaphor: comparison/device where you refer to one thing by calling it another

• His anger was a runaway train hurtling toward a crash.

Imagery: descriptive or figurative language

• I love walking along the pier in the early morning, listening to Lake Michigan as it gently kisses the rocks along the breakwater.
• “Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re trying to be so quiet?”
  

 

 

 

FRIDAY: Unit 6 Vocab

OPTIONAL Test or Essay on To Kill a Mockingbird