Literary toolbox part 3 9/27

Today in English class we continued going over our literary toolbox; however we also talked about the blog website and respect. Mr.Rivers mentioned respecting everyone and the class as a whole. Someone had written something inappropriate on google classroom and he told us that that will never be acceptable in the classroom. He also talked about how respecting people wasn't just in the classroom and that it goes wherever we go. Respect is not something you do passively but it is an active thing you work on 24/7.  After that we learned how to post on the blog because a lot of people were confused about that. To post for the first time on the blog you have to go to your school email and find the email from Mr.Rivers and Mrs. Carroll and then click new post. After that we continued the group presentations of their literary device section. This time it was my group, so we took turns saying the definitions of our literary devices that were from the section, "power of sounds" and we read the examples from the letter or sonnet and the group's example. Our literary devices were assonance, alliteration, euphony, cacophony, and onomatopoeia. All of these had to do with sound that letters make and repetitive sounds. We then started going over the 3rd section of literary devices called "Making words into images". In this section the literary devices were: metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, and allegory. Learning these literary devices can tell the reader more about what the writer is trying to portray and his tone. For example, euphony means a word pleasing to the ear; so if someone would use a word like "lush", their writing would most likely have a positive connotation. However if they used a cacophony, which is a harsh, discordant sounding word, the writing would probably have a negative connotation.


-Sarah Pineau