9/27/17 Where to Post Blogs, Mixed Tool Box (Power of Sounds and Making Words Into Images)

     Today in class we discussed, at the start of class where to post blogs and where to access other blogs posted by other classmates. To locate the class blog, type in the search bar "https://www.blogger.com" , then make a account using your school gmail. Make sure to check your school gmail account for a invite to blogger.com from Mr. Rivers, then hit accept.

We then continued going over the "Literary Tool Box" slides and covered all of the "Power Sounds" slides and almost all of the "Making Words Into Images" slides, with the exception of allegories. In the "Power of Sounds" we covered the word Assonance, which means the repetition of the sound of one or more vowels for example "The purple curtain shaded the room". The next word was Alliteration its definition is the occurrence of the same letter of sound at the beginning of adjacent of closely connected words. For example "For in a fortnight shall we fail forever". Then Euphony, which is defined as using pleasing to the ear combinations of words like "The bacon is sizzling". Cacophony means a harsh discomforting mixture of sounds for example Gollum's name is harsh and represents his character and speech in Lord of The Rings. The final word in this category is onomatopoeia, which is the formation of a word from a sound association. Like in the old comics with Bam!, Whack!, Pow!, Zoom!.
     In the "Making Words Into Images" category the vocabulary words covered today in class are simile, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole. A simile is using the words "like" or  "as" to compare unlike things such as "He is like a angry storm" comparing the man to a angry storm. The next word is metaphor, which compares two things without using the words "like" or "as"; for example "She is a perfect symphony of one". Personification is used to give inanimate objects human like characteristics; for example "We chase the melodies that seem to find us".The final word covered in class was hyperbole, which is a exaggeration not meant to be taken literally; for example "That building is so small, it could fit in my pocket".