A Day's Finding Figures of Speech in the novel Speak by Caitlin Barrett https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q Melinda uses figurative language ALL the time! Search through what we have read so far in the First, Second, and Third Marking Periods of the novel and find ONE example of EITHER a simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole understatement, or irony. In your post: type the example in quotes as the title, include the page number. Then explain the author's intended meaning in the body text. Make sure your name is on your post somewhere! No Anonymous. No repeating what someone else has written. Once they post it, it is off the table, so to speak. In your post: type the example in quotes as the title, include the page number. Then explain the author's intended meaning in the body text In your post: type the example as the title and then explain the author's intended meaning in the body text. en-us 2020-09-15 21:55:05 UTC 2020-10-02 21:07:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f5ef.png Compares two unlike objects using the words “like” or “as.” cbarrett19 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/749778467 2020-09-15 21:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/749778467 Compares two unlike objects without using the words like or as. cbarrett19 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/749778704 2020-09-15 21:59:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/749778704 Attributing human characteristics to non-human things cbarrett19 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/749779331 2020-09-15 21:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/749779331 An exaggerated statement or claim cbarrett19 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/749781380 2020-09-15 22:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/749781380 "Mr. Neck has no use for girls who can run the one hundred in under 10 seconds." (page #) Name?? https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/791257254 This slightly exaggerated statement is meant to help the reader picture how fast she was running.]]> 2020-09-30 13:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/791257254 "The Wombat is dead." (Perri Davis) p. 95 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795461048 The school mascot is no longer the Wombats. ]]> 2020-10-01 16:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795461048 "Sarcasm would go right over her head." Page#27 - Carson Boling https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795464000 It implies that she is oblivious to others feelings and opinions. ]]> 2020-10-01 16:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795464000 The school bus wheezes to my corner. Pg 3 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795466241 That means it is very old and the car struggles to get to certain areas. Seiger Dunston]]> 2020-10-01 16:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795466241 "The cement-slab sky hangs inches above our heads." p. 91 (Perri Davis) https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795469967 The sky is gray and ominous]]> 2020-10-01 16:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795469967 "I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown" (DeVon Gardner) (page 14) https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795470684 Melinda was fine with school and didn't have any mental breakdowns her first two weeks ]]> 2020-10-01 16:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795470684 ["Carry your weight" page 89] Cayden Flatt https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795477773 They saying that she need to do more.]]> 2020-10-01 16:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795477773 "Melinda inhaling pepperoni and mushroom" Pg 15 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795483250 that means she is eating really fast and and not stopping to breath.
Max Gebhardt ]]> 2020-10-01 16:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795483250 "the turkey floats in the sink, a ten-pound turkey iceberg. A turkeyberg. I feel very much like the titanic." p58 (travis glisson) https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795486286 the turk]]> 2020-10-01 16:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795486286 "swearing like a rap star" -page 56 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795492356 Melinda's mom swears a lot, similar to how rap stars do. - Mya Green]]> 2020-10-01 16:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795492356 "I dive into the stream of fourth-period lunch students and swim down the hall to the cafeteria." page 7 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795534325 she joins the group of people walking to the cafeteria. Carter Pickett]]> 2020-10-01 17:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795534325 isaiah mosley pg24 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795596373 Yesterday hairwoman yanked me from study hall and forced me to make up missing homework in her classroom. I think the author was tryning to show how melinda is tired all the time and how she hates being in school eveyrday.]]> 2020-10-01 17:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795596373 "My room belongs to an alien"- page 15- Erik Perez https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795718890 Her room is a mess, and Mel feels isolated from her room. She feels like the room belongs to someone else.]]> 2020-10-01 17:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/795718890 Name "fig lang quote from the text" (page #) cbarrett19 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796081605 explain the literal meaning here]]> 2020-10-01 19:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796081605 It coughs and rumbles and spits out two old women in front of the grocery store (98) https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796084677 It is describing what the bus sounds like also it tells us the two old lady's got off the bus at a grocery store.
XZavon Delgado]]> 2020-10-01 19:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796084677 "Art follows lunch, like dream follows a nightmare" https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796089585 pg: 9 She guys to Art after she goes to lunch. Saying, lunch was ok. But art was not.
Julian Janssen


]]> 2020-10-01 19:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796089585 My head explodes with the noise of firetrucks leaving the station pg 39-Sariah Johnson https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796094839 This is exaggerated firetrucks arnt really in her head this statement means that she scared and panicking ]]> 2020-10-01 19:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796094839 "heathers mom always ask me sideways questions to see if im the right friend" Kobe kunz https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796096302 pg 22 - a sideways question is a little question to get more info.]]> 2020-10-01 19:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796096302 intentionally making a situation seem less important than it really is cbarrett19 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796097148 2020-10-01 19:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796097148 someone says or does something, but means another thing or intends for something else to happen that would be contrary to thought. cbarrett19 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796102324 In literature, there are three main subtypes of irony. They are verbal irony, dramatic irony, and situational irony.]]> 2020-10-01 19:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796102324 "I dive into the stream of 4th period lunch students and swim down the hall to the cafeteria"- page 7 Maddie Bart https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796103602 She is referring to the students as a class of fish and she is the odd one out. ]]> 2020-10-01 19:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796103602 Kiersten Hutchins-(page 29) https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796104878 ¨Our cheerleaders are much better at scoring than the football team is.¨
 She is saying that The cheerleaders are more popular or more superior than the football team and that the football players just are not very good at football.  ]]> 2020-10-01 19:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796104878 " it's always supposed to be there, like milk in the fridge, or God." - pg. 98. https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796105447 In this part, she talks about how the mall was closed when she got there. Now that I think about it, a lot of people have probably never seen a mall close. You just assume that it's always open. - Alicianna Davis]]> 2020-10-01 19:16:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796105447 "There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs." Page 51 Drake Allyn https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796113428 2020-10-01 19:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796113428 Estella Bender bendere21 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796117892 pg 101 - "Hairwoman is hammering it to death." 
She's referring to how her english teacher is making them find too much symbolism, obviously being overdramatic when she says that.]]> 2020-10-01 19:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796117892 Kimariah Hill https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796119627 "i can feel the wind fighting to break through our storm windows"(pg 87)
the wind is blowing so hard against her window that its as if its trying hard to get in.]]> 2020-10-01 19:20:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796119627 https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796887607 Three magazines later my parents are arguing. Not a rip-roarer.A simmering argument, a few bubbles splashing on the stove." 65 Annie Leming

]]> 2020-10-02 04:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/796887607 "My heart clangs like a fire bell." p71 Jaelyn Romanotto https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/797375085 Melinda is remembering her past Christmas' and kind of gets sad after and her anxiety comes in a little bit. ]]> 2020-10-02 12:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/797375085 Death by algebra (83) Xavier Berg https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/798265054 This can mean Mel does not like Algebra.]]> 2020-10-02 16:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/798265054 Page 5- The words crawl out of my throat. Kaden DuVall https://padlet.com/cbarrett19/u3ny48uwrek81h8q/wish/798932567 The words are given the characteristic of crawling

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