Comma What?

My father had left our house in the midst of a fight between Lindsey and my mother. My mother was trying to get Lindsey to go with her to the Y to swim. Without thinking, Lindsey had blared, "I'd rather die!," at the top of her lungs. My father watched as my mother froze, then burst fleeing to their bedroom to wail behind the door. He quietly tucked his notebook in his jacket pocket, took the car keys off the hook by the back door, and snuck out.

Gossip Got Your Tongue?

1. If everybody in the school triple filtered everything they talked about there wouldn't be so much talking. If everything we were going to say had to be truthful, good, and meaningful we wouldn't have as many fights and bad feelings toward each other.

2. People still gossip about other people maybe because they want to get back at the people that gossip about them. If they know that it feels bad they might want their enemies to feel bad.

Literary Elements: TAKS PT 3

Satire - a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
Irony - the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
Analogy - inference that if 2 or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others
Foreshadowing - to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand

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Figurative Language

Figurative is characterization by figures of speech.

A figure of speech is a form of expression used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener.
Imagery is a type of figurative language.
Trope is the use of a word or expression in a figurative sense.

They are all types of figurative language. They are added to a sentence to show feelings and make it more exciting.

Story Spinner

As I regained consciousness, I remember asking, "Who was that man"? I got up and took a look around. It was raining and I couldn't really see anything through the dark. I started to walk forward when lightning flashed and I saw where I was. Then it all came back to me.
It was nearly dark and I was walking home from school when I saw some headlights up ahead. I thought the car would just pass me by but it pulled out in front of me and a man got out. "Are you Keyan?", he said. "Yes, why do you want to know?", I said. That was when he punched me in the side of the head and I lost consciousness.
Once I realized what was happening I started to panic. Then I saw him at the end of the alley. "You remember this place?", he said. "Yes, but who are you?", I said. He started walking toward me and I realized there was nowhere I could run. Then I saw it, a door leading to the vestibule of the building beside me. "Now don't be stubborn and try to run, it will do you no good." After that I bolted for the door, but once I got there it was locked and I turned to see him laughing. "It won't be that easy." he said. "It's not me you should blame it was all Taylor's doing." I said. "I was in prison all these years for the thing you and your friend made me do." he said. Then he pulled out a gun and said, "I've already dealt with Taylor". What he didn't realize was that I had picked up a brick and was hiding it from his view. Once he got close enough I threw it as hard as I could and it knocked him straight in the head. As he fell down I ran out of the alley and made it to the police department where I turned him in. I never saw that man again.