Archive for December 15, 2008

Poetry and Homeric Similes

First period finished up the mini-unit on sound devices and moved on to figurative language:

simile,
metaphor, and
personification.

We began by looking at one poem (“Concrete Mixers”) in pairs for examples of all three forms of figurative language.
We’ll be having a quiz tomorrow on the vocabulary terms in “Concrete Mixers”.
Second period worked on Homeric similes before starting with [...]

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