Friday, January 22, 2010

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.

Monday, January 11, 2010

literary elements : taks pt 3



1.) satire - a literary work holding up human vices and follies to riduclue or scorn

2.)irony - a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning

3.)analogy - inference that if tow or more things agree with one wanother in some respects they will prob agree in others

4.)foreshadowing- to represent indicate or typify beforehand

Thursday, January 7, 2010

figurative language

figurative - representing by a figure or resemblance

figure of speech - 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

imaginary - existing only in imagination

trope - the use of a word or expression in a figurative sense

they all have to do with figurative language

Monday, January 4, 2010

story spinners: option-1

As the old man approached my friends and me talking gibberish, I think he was asking us if we would like to drink with him or something i really didn't understand what the heck he was saying. he was a real strange looking old man, he was riding a bicycle with a flashlight tied to the front handle bars, and he was barefoot.
We told him that we are not supposed to drink because we are only 15 years old, but he insisted that we should drink, so we decided to leave but that old man kept fallowing us every where on his little bike so one of my friends decided to start throwing rocks at him but all that did was make him really really mad so he started to speed up.
We all started to run for our lives but he was to fast, he started caching up to us so finally we decided that we could take him, it was five against one so one of my friends tackled him of his bike, he was so drunk he just passed out right there on the ground. After that we took his bike and rolled it down a hill into a lake then we just decided to all go home.