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the following response.
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Writing
Focus: Constructed Response: Choose one of the following prompts and respond
accordingly.
a.
Opinion/Argument: The author’s use
of _______ (specific example of figurative language)__ was effective/
ineffective because……..
b.
Fiction Narrative: Pick a setting
you might want to use for a story (real or imagined). Describe it using
figurative language that will make the reader FEEL like s/he is there.
A setting I chose was to describe is a dark, scary room. One night as a boy entered wondered off in the woods, he came across a mysterious room he decided to enter it. When he did, a loud thunder shook his ears, as he nervously turned around to figure what happened, his eyes scanned something. He saw a stream of light from a crack on a window casting a shadow of a creature on the dull colored wall. As, he picked up his foot moving towards the window, he could feel the warm breath of someone else as it hit his wet skin near the back of his neck. He felt as if someone was right behind him, the salty drops of water covered his forehead as he slowly turned his head around to see who it was. His eyes examined for a person, then as he nervously swallowed some saliva he begin to see something. It was a large, odd shaped creature with blue eyes dark as the ink in the pen he used to write with.
ReplyDeleteThe authors use of personification was very effective because it makes you think more deeply. When Ray Bradbury says " The little mosquito-delicate dancing hum in the air" is a great effective example of personification. It makes your sense of hearing become more active. It makes you think of how it would be to have it "dancing in your ear." More thought gets put into things when it's said in a figurative perspective.
ReplyDeleteIn Fahrenheit 451, he says "She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of the night." he is comparing her face to the dial of a clock. It gives the reader an imagery of what she would have looked liked. He describes her face as being very thin and pale like a clock would look at night.
ReplyDeleteThe setting I would chose is dark and gloomy. When the twilight fades to blackness it lights a fire inside my guts. It burns away the drabness of the day, the clock in and the clock out, the mechanized life, robotic and cold. The night means downtown is lit by the neon lights of the clubs and bars, shinning on the rain-kissed sidewalks. At night you can be anybody and no-one cares who you really are. So in my retro outfit from an era even my mother never knew, I step into the darkness.
ReplyDeleteI would pick my room but mainly because I love books that are realistic fiction and describe the life of a normal teenager. As you enter, the first impression you get is 'clean'. There is a neatly folded bed covered with a light blue blanket that has white patterns. There's a twenty one pilots blanket that I use to cover myself with and two pillows with red pillowcases. My desk holds my record player and my laptop. Next to it is my huge bookshelf that's twice as tall as me, holding 50+ books. There's a piano that I gave up on because I don't have time and a ukulele I'm not very good at.
ReplyDeleteThe authors use of personification throughout the book showed how he was trying to give no-living things life. this effected the story a lot because you really had to piece thing together in order to figure out what he was actually trying compare it to. You had to break it down and see how it truly compares to that certain object. For example; when Bradbury said that the ear buds were compared to little mosquitos delicately dancing to the song they hummed. This showed that the music coming for the earbuds where very loud and the music was joyful.
ReplyDeleteThe setting I chose is a dark, scary chamber. As 19 years old Jasmine sit there in the chamber desperately waiting for her true love to come and safe her. As Johnnie the terror come and mess with her saying you will never get out and never leave. As she sits there and cry, she think of her parents.Jasmine was stole when she was 2 months old cause of her beautiful voice that could hypnotize people as soon as they heard it.But Jasmine was forbid to sing. One day Jasmine heard the birds sing and she sung along the guard that was guarding her listen and open the door. Jasmine had broke free and never believe her true love would ever come. As the guards was notified the alarms went off, Jasmine was scared for her life so when she seen the dragon she took the risk. As the dragon flew off she felt the breeze against your ear and the coolness on your body. Jasmine held on tight but then let go cause she just escape. Jasmine then knew her what she was there for to live,experience life and have adventures.
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