Our focus this week is descriptive language and the power of words. In class, we will be working on incorporating strong imagery and figurative language into our writing.
For your blog this week: 1.) Find two examples of strong descriptive language in the book you are reading, or a text you've read in the past. 2.) Write the examples. Be sure to include quotation marks and page numbers. 3.) Highlight specifically which words help create a strong visual. 4.) Include the author and title. Sample Answer: Example #1: In the book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by JK Rowling, Rowling describes a "Death Day" party: "It was an incredible sight. the dungeon was full of hundreds of pearly-white, translucent people, mostly drifting around a crowded dance floor, waltzing to the dreadful, quavering sound of thirty musical saws, played by an orchestra on a raised, black-draped platform. A chandelier overhead blazed midnight-blue with a thousand more black candles. Their breath rose in a mist before them, it was like stepping into a freezer," (p. 132). In this example, words like "pearly-white translucent people" and "chandelier overhead blazed midnight-blue with a thousand more black candles" help me as the reader visualize the scene. Example #2 My second example is also from the book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling. In this scene, Rowling continues to describe the scene: "On the other side of the dungeon was a long table, also covered in black velvet...The smell was quite disgusting. Large, rotten fish were laid on handsome silver platters; cakes burned charcoal-black, were heaped on salvers, there was a great maggoty haggis, a slab of cheese covered in furry green mold, and in a pride of place, an enormous gray cake in the shape of a tombstone, with tar-like icing..." (p. 133). In this example, words like "large, rotten fish" and "handsome silver platters" allows me to visualize this part of the party.
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ARIANNA GRANDE
3/11/2019 07:59:01 pm
In the book, These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Laura Describes A shines night were everyone is happy. It says, "In the starlight, let us wander gay and free, for there's nothing in the daylight half so dear to children playing. Like fairies in the shadow of the woods we'll steal along, and our sweetest lays we'll warble, for the night was made for song. When none are by to listen or to chide us in our glee, in the starlight let us wander gay and free." P. 207 It uses words like " For the night was made for a song." And like " Fairies in the shadow. This helps me visualize the seen.
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Lyla
3/14/2019 07:54:57 pm
nice!!!!!!!!
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ARIANNA GRANDE/ ARIANNA
3/11/2019 08:00:18 pm
I will do the second one tomorrow! (Or when I can)
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ARIANNA GRANDE
3/12/2019 03:03:06 pm
In the book, Charlie and the Chocolate factory by Roald Dahl. Charlie describes Mr.Willy Wonka. It says "What an extraordinary little man he was! He had a black top hat on his head. He wore a tail coat made of a beautiful plum-colored velvet. His trousers were bottle green and his gloves were pearly gray. And in one hand he carried a fine gold-topped walking cane." P. 57 It uses words like "Bottle green" And "Pearly gray" This helps me visualize the seen.
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Elli Bailey Lover
3/12/2019 03:55:48 pm
IN the book Wish by Barbra Oconer, Charlie was on the school bus and she was thinking, "before long, the bus was making it's way up the moutain. The rain had stoped and wavy plooms of steam driffted up off the asphalt." This quat helped me visaulize the warm school day and what it was like to me on the bus on thee way home. (Page 12).
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TSM_pig'o-chase
3/13/2019 08:31:34 am
In the book, ''A series of Unfortunate events-7th'', by Lemony Snicket, he uses some really strong word choice to describe count Olaf in his costume disguise of detective Dupin like, his plastic neon shoes, sour breath, and large sunglasses to cover his one eyebrow and his shiny eyes.Also, he described him with his large pale hairy chest with a thick gold chain digging into the hair. Finally, in the 6th book he was disguised as one of the most famous auctioneer and was described as, overly long black leather coat and he had a straight hat. Those were some what you call REALLY describe one person.
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Your Mum, Cole
3/13/2019 12:47:39 pm
In the book The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, by Trenton Lee Stewart, a time when Stew zooms in is on pg. 25, "Here was The Manor, a two story gray stone mansion that stretched out impressively in both directions . In a city it would have occupied half a block. There were enough windows to keep a glass factory busy for years. A few of them betrayed the faint, flickering reflections of interior candlelight. Most were dark." In the example, Stew uses words like "Two story gray stone mansion", and "Enough windows to keep a glass factory in business for years".
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elijah
3/14/2019 09:51:42 am
my book doesn't have any.
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Mrs. Pells
3/14/2019 09:59:28 am
Hi Elijah,
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elijah
3/14/2019 04:49:32 pm
I am doing my blog
KIRA
3/14/2019 10:58:51 am
In the book "Girl Meets World" written by Disney Press, Ryley describes her best friend Maya. “My best friend is as sharp as a pencil.” page 12. This quote helped me visualize the scene. My second example is from the book "Skin Like Milk, Hair Of Silk" by Brian P Cleary. The title of the book has both a simile and a metaphor. This example helps me understand the book.
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KIRA
3/14/2019 11:04:14 am
The first quote is a simile because it uses " as" and the second quote is a simile and a metaphor because it uses "like"and it compares hair to silk without useing "like or as".
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Claire is so so cool
3/14/2019 03:46:23 pm
Example #1.
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elijah is a unicorn?!
3/14/2019 05:09:17 pm
#1 In the book The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns, by Chris Colfer, he uses personification. It states,"A flash of light traveled from the tip of her wand and into the dog's mouth." this is personification because a light can't travel (move) anywhere. (78)
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Elijah is a unicorn?!
3/14/2019 05:12:34 pm
(96)
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Patriots BBBBBBBOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIII Liam
3/14/2019 05:36:13 pm
Example #1
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KAITLIN SCHATZ
3/14/2019 07:28:15 pm
In the book Mr. Terupt falls again by Rob Buyea. On page 1 it says”It was one of those farts that stunk so bad you could taste it. One of those that made your eyes water and forced you to tuck your nose into your shirt collar. This quote shows me it stunk really bad!”
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will
3/15/2019 06:11:40 am
In the short story, The Mildenhall Treasure , by Roald Dahl. He disrobes Mr. Ford as a “a middle-aged or a little older, bald-headed, long-nosed, with a clever foxy look on his face. His mouth was thin and sour, and when he looked at you, and when you saw the tightness of his mouth and the thin sour line of his lips, you knew, that this was a mouth that never smiled.” (pg. 54) words like “clever foxy” and the “tightness of his mouth” help you picture what Mr. Ford would look like in real life and what type of a person he is.
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Wyatt Johnston
3/15/2019 10:31:30 am
In the book, "Stay Alive Crash", By Joseph Monninger, there is a great description on page 4: "Gradually, as if the engine had tried to clear it's throught but failed." This helps me vissulies that the engine cant restart its self, but it personificies it, instead of saying, "The engine couldn't restaart."
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Bach
3/15/2019 10:36:43 am
In the book Stay Alive Crash I found some Distcriptive language. On page 4 it said" The bear went back to feeding, its frot teeth snapping yellow meaty grubs like popcorn kernels also. The word like in the sentence shows that it is a discriptive word I found another discriptive word it is wear something nonhuman is given a human characteristicon on page 5 it said" The dying sun light flashed. the discrptive language i shared with you are great examples of discriptive words so it will be great to use them in storys.
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lyla
3/15/2019 10:40:48 am
In the book, Matilda by Roald Dahl, Roald describes Matilda's house. On page 22 it says, "Matilda's parents owned quite a nice house with three bedrooms upstairs, while on the ground floor there was a dinning-room and a living-room and a kitchen." Roald also describes Matilda as "an ingnorant little squirt who hasn't the foggiest idea what you're talking about!"
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