Figurative Language affects Tone and Mood

The figurative language can set a mood and tone in a piece of writing in many different ways. It can produce a sad, happy, loving, hating, jealous or even indifferent mood to a work. Figurative language can be used to replace a lot of descriptions. Instead of saying, "everybody was sad in thanksgiving", you can enrich the sentence by using a simile; "thanksgiving was as sad as a veteran without a leg" or, "the environment was as sad as a tree with no leaves". See how the environment was completely sad?

This was only one example with a simile. The other forms of figurative language can also work with many of the cases. So you only have to use figurative language and a clever play with words to enrich your papers and pieces of writing completely.

Examples of Figurative Language

Allegory:  in Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss, Yertle has a resemblance to Adolf Hitler's character because he wanted to control the world.

Understatement: "You're a mean one. Mr. Grinch" How the Grinch Stole Christmas--by Dr. Seuss

Paradox: "It was a cheerful, gray afternoon at the cottage." --Anonymous

Irony: "She was scared of the plane, so she went on the crashing train". --Anonymous

Synecdoche: "One, two, three, eyes on me" (eyes=attention)

Apostrophe: "My Evangeline" --The Princess and the Frog by Disney

Onomatopoeia: "Boom boom Pow"-- the Black Eyed Peas

Metaphor: "I am the holy sheep"-- Jesus Christ

Simile: It dries up like a raisin in the sun-- "a Dream Deffered by Langston Hughes

Rhyme: I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I am. "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss

Personification: The house stood beside the river-- Anonymous

Repetition: Barbara Streisand, ooooooooooooooooooooooo "Barbara Streisand"--- Duck Sauce

Hyperbole: Messi is the best soccer player ever!!

Alliteration: how much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

Assonance: he saw a ball far away

Imagery: The place smelled like fresh roses.

Allusion:   "Don't be such a Grinch" Dr. Seuss

Song about Stocks

Stocks 'Round the Clock

Turn on my iPhone and I see the stocks
My parernt talk about them but I dont know what they are
I see Apple google dax, yahoo and many more
But I still dont understand what the f**k they are

Im talking to my teacher at school school
Asking her what stocks are are
And her response surprised me

She told me
Big Companies sell stocks stocks
To the regular jocks jocks
So they can fund their projects

Buy stocks, they’re part
Of a very big buisness.
Buy low, sell them high
So that we can win cash
Buy stocks ‘round the clock
you can party every day
And go. Ooooooooo

Buy stocks, they’re part
Of a very big buisness.
Buy low, sell them high
So that we can win cash
Buy stocks ‘round the clock
you can party every day
And go. Ooooooooo

10 things about stocks

1. They are part of a company that you can buy
2. A person who buys stocks is named a stockholder
3. Companies sell stocks so that they get more money and they can grow
4. the whole point of having stocks is to have more money. When the company grows, the stockholders gain money.
5. there is a famous saying that says "buy low, sell high" which is what stockbrokers do.
6. stockbrokers are people who are in charge of all the trade inside the stock market.
7. people hire brokers to buy and sell for a profit.
8. Two very important stock markets are NASDAQ and The New York Stock Exchange
9. the Great Depression in 1929 was caused by a great drop in stocks in the Black Tuesday. 
10. If a company grows pretty fast and you have stocks in it, then you will gain a lot of money!

Math Project

My math project will be about stocks.

Vocabulary Lesson 2

NORMAL WORDS

subvert
tr. v. To upset; to overthrow; to ruin

subservient
adj. Excessively willing to yield; submassive.

contort
tr. v. To twist or bend out of shape.

distort
tr.v. 1. to change something to make it false.
       2. To twist (something) out of its natural shape.

retort
       1. tr. and intr. v. To reply quickly and sharply, often as if in reply to an accusation.
       2. n. A quick, witty, sometimes biting reply.

tortuous
adj. 1. Having many twists and turns
       2. Deceitfully roundabout; tricky

adversity
n. Hardship; misfortune.

avert
tr. v.1.To turn away (one's eyes).
       2. to prevent.

introvert
n. A person whose thoughts and interests are directed inward.

pervers
adj. Stubbornly doing something other than what is reasonable or required.

prose
       1. n. ordinary speech or writing without thyme or meter (that is, without verse)
       2. adj. Referring to speech or writing other than verse.

CHALLENGE WORDS

extort
to steal info or money by violence or humiliation

torque
power in cars

tort
a cake :D

truss
a triangular structure in engineering

vertigo
a feeling of uneasiness you feel at great heights

vortex
the hole in a hurricane or tornado

PHOTOS