Friday, September 21, 2007

Lesson 1 Word Analysis Definitions for classwork for 9/24-/9/25

Language Arts Students: All students must copy down the following terms and definitions. Students will be tested on their knowledge of these terms on the SPA test.

Literal Language: uses words with their usual dictionary definition.

Figurative Language: uses words in highly imaginative ways without their usual dictionary definitions.

Simile: is a comparison between two basically unlike things.

Metaphor: compares two basically dissimilar things without the use of connecting words such as like, as, or resembles.

Idiom: is a common expression in which the words don't really mean what they say.

Analogy: expression a comparison between two situations or ideas that are alike in one important way but different in others.

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