Welcome Hale Eighth Graders and Parents!

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Reminders for the Class of 2015 will also be posted.


Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015 & Study Guide

Today we continued creating flash cards for literary devices -- aphorism, antithesis, symbolism, satire, homophones etc.
We corrected SS #42.  Test Corrections on #10 were collected.
We assembled & checked in our Genealogy reports & created our peer evaluation sheet.

Homework:
Binder signature
SS 43
review figurative language & literary techniques for Friday's test
Work on figurative language menu

STUDY GUIDE:
imagery                                    metaphor                                    personification
synecdoche                              alliteration                                   symbolism
simile                                       onomatopoeia                             analogy
anecdocte                                cliche                                          euphemism
idiom                                       jargon                                          oxymoron
pun                                         understatement                              flashback
foreshadowing                        satire                                             irony
verbal irony                             connotation                                  denotation
etymology                                assonance                                   consonance
synonyms                                antonyms                                      homophones/homonyms
allusion                                    hyperbole              

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