Emily

Today you’ll be learning about figurative language and punctuation.
Keep on reading and let’s get started!

Figurative language:

Figurative language makes writing more interesting.
Most of the time, to make writing more interesting, you make your writing not literal.
e.g. The frying pan was hot.
That’s just a boring old sentence isn’t it? Here is an example of a more figurative sentence. This is a metaphor.
e.g. The frying pan was a hot sun.
Here’s another example.
The frying pan was hotter than the sun.
You should be able to notice now what figurative language does to your writing now. There are many types of figurative language; here are a few of them.

Onomatopoeia; a sound or speech. “Bark!” or “Ouch!”
Oxymoron; when two or more opposite words are put together for emphasis. “Organised chaos.”  or “Pretty ugly.”
Hyperbole; to express the characters feelings or sometimes appearance. “Cold as ice.” or “Strong as a brick.”
Metaphor; something not literal and doesn’t use the words “like” and “as”. “She was a pretty flower.”
Simile; something that is literal and does use the words “like” and “as”. “He was as weak as a baby.”
Parenthesis; to add extra information in a sentence.
 “ That pencil case (which was mine) got stolen yesterday.”

Punctuation:

Punctuation comes with many different symbols and marks.
Punctuation helps you breath during a sentence, helps to make your sentence make sense and helps exaggerate.

Here are a few of the punctuation marks.

Full stop = something used to stop a sentence.
Comma  = something used to pause in a sentence.
Colon  = something used to introduce lists.
Semi – colon = something used during a list and to connect independent clauses.
Speech marks = something used when someone’s speaking or making a sound.
Exclamation marks = something used at the end of someone’s speech; when someone yells or screams.
Question marks = something used for a question.
Hyphen = where to words a put together like  mother-in-law.
Dash = shows interruption like,
“She is my-.”
“Sister! interrupted Sally.
Brackets = sometimes used to show extra information.
He is in the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) and he works very hard.

Today your task is to do two different quizes and a paragraph of unpunctuated errors.

Your figuative language test will involve having to realise what word from the sentence is the figuative word an what type it is. Your puncuation test is a sentence puntuating test.

Write your answer in your english book.

Figurative Language:

Q1: Which word is onamotopia?

 "Meow!" or "Hello?"

Q2:What word is an oxymoron?

 "Pretty ugly" or "Organised chaos"

Q3: What word is metaphor?

"Her hands were as cold as ice" or "He is a robot"

Punctuation:

Once opon a time their was a princes named georgia. she is like rapunzel with long hair. The bad thing was that she is looked in a hi tower lening over a clift;

yestaday there waz a storm that blue her house over she survived buut sadly 1 off her 3 pigs died of a hart atack.

When red ridding hood was riding pass the lake she sore a wolf an sprited away with an screme.

Answers to the figurative and punctuating tests.

1. "Meow"

2. "Pretty ugly"

3. "He is a robot"

1. Once upon a time there was a princess named Georgia. She is like Rapunzel with long hair. The bad thing was that she is locked in a high tower leaning over a cliff.

2. Yesterday there was a storm that blew her house over, she survived but sadly one of her three pigs died of a heart attack.

3. When red riding hood was riding pass the lake, she sore a wolf and sprinted away with a scream.

Games to help you understand figurative language and punctuation.

https://www.englishclub.com/writing/punctuation.htm

http://www.timeforkids.com/homework-helper/study-helper/figurative-language 

So today you have learnt what your writing could turn into and what different languages there are in figuative language and also some punctuation techniques.