https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr en-us 2016-09-30 14:39:52 UTC 2026-01-31 17:36:11 UTC hello@padlet.com brianaanderson4497 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/127545355 Definition:Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more stressed syllables

"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea"
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
http://literarydevices.net/alliteration/

Dolly's dog Donald drinks Dr. Pepper.


]]> 2016-09-30 14:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/127545355 brianaanderson4497 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/127883697 Definition: an explicit comparison using like or as
"...impressions poured in upon her of those two men, and to follow her thought was like fallowing a voice which speaks too quickly to be taken down by one's pencil..."
From Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse"
http://literarydevices.net/simile/

Her smile was like a breath of fresh air.]]> 2016-10-03 14:11:27 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/127883697 brianaanderson4497 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/127884013 Definition: deliberate exaggeration of a person, thing, quality, event to emphasize a point external to the object of exaggeration: intentional exaggeration for rhetorical effect

"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you,
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the Salmon sing in the street,
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry."
From W.H Auden's poem "As I Walked One Evening"
http://literarydevices.net/hyperbole/

It took an eternity to finally reach the receptionists desk.

]]> 2016-10-03 14:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/127884013 shamrick4003 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/127885455 Definition: The repetition of the last word  of one clause or sentence at the beginning of the next.

"My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain."
 - From Shakespeare ( Richard III, V, iii)
http://www.bardweb.net/grammar/02rhetoric.html

I come to school to get a good education. A good education will get me to the college of my dreams. My dreams can then become reality.







]]> 2016-10-03 14:15:53 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/127885455 shamrick4003 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/127886102 Definition: A figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.

"“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” he utters.''
 - Shakespeare's Macbeth

The Pentagon will be revealing their decision later today.



]]> 2016-10-03 14:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/127886102 shamrick4003 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/127887545 Definition: A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.

"Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay".
      - 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost
(He is alluding to the biblical paradise of Eden)
http://www.allusionexamples.com/

The girl's addiction to sweets was her Achilles Heel.]]> 2016-10-03 14:21:15 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/127887545 brianaanderson4497 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128184443 Definition: a word or phrase denoting one kind of object or idea used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them. It generally an implicit comparison not using like or as.

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" William Shakespeare
http://literarydevices.net/metaphor/

His laugh was nails on chalkboard.]]> 2016-10-04 14:23:49 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128184443 brianaanderson4497 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128185811 Definition: The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing; style of enunciation in speaking or singing

"And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don't know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn't the best. We complained about it. So we've got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we've got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing." From Donald Barthelme's The School.

When I was a little kid I would always be found playing in the backyard or biking around the neighborhood or running around the block or fighting imaginary people.

]]> 2016-10-04 14:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128185811 shamrick4003 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128187216 Definition: Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines.

"This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings [...] This land of such dear souls, this dear land." 
 - Shakespeare (Richard II) Act II, scene 1
literarydevices.net/anaphora/

Her beauty was tranquilizing, Her beauty could melt the coldest and most frigid glacier, The beauty in her voice reminds you of red velvet cake with chocolate drizzled over top, and the beauty of her love was always so warm and comfortable. ]]> 2016-10-04 14:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128187216 brianaanderson4497 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128629588 Definition: Stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession to achieve an artistic effect

"And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and  his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had." From the Bible

Being a pastor of a youth group, I took the children, and their parents, and their siblings, and their friends, and the older members of the church, and my dog, and my family.]]> 2016-10-05 19:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128629588 brianaanderson4497 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128632173 Definition: a figure of speech in which a part is mad to represent the whole

"A pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the ocean floor" From The Love song of Alfred Prufrock

The White house has been trying to get some laws to pass but people are being difficult]]> 2016-10-05 19:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128632173 brianaanderson4497 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128634101 Definition: How the narrator uses words to create an atmosphere which causes the reader to have an emotional response.

"Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we too out of it; we had given him nothing, and it made me sad." From Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
 http://www.literarydevices.com/tone/

Bayden began to tear up, he could not stand to see his father fade away. "Long live the king" his uncle had said as he threw his own brother off the upper floor of the mall into the black Friday stampede.]]> 2016-10-05 20:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128634101 shamrick4003 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128858784 Definition: A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities.

"My alarm clock yells at me every morning."
examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-personification-for-kids.html

The piles of homework slept on my desk, day after day collecting dust.]]> 2016-10-06 15:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128858784 shamrick4003 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128992080 Definition: A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul, And sigs the tune- without the words, and never stops at all
And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
Ive heard in the chilliest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never in extremity, It asked a crumb of me."

Hope by Emily Dickens
https://blog.udemy.com/extended-metaphor-examples/

Envy embodies super glue, it sticks to you, never letting go or giving you freedom from superficial desires and its grasp. Its impossible to escape, once you have come into contact with it, it never lets go.]]> 2016-10-06 23:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/128992080 https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/135144904 2016-11-03 16:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaanderson4497/gvotujqhetxr/wish/135144904