Good Morning!
Well done for your work yesterday, I hope you enjoyed reading The Girl Who Stole an Elephant’ by Nizrana Farook.
Today we are going to have a Grammar focus. As a starter, please complete the following tasks in your Home Learning Book:
Figurative Language
In preparation for our writing on Thursday, today we are going to think about Figurative Language.
Figurative language is when words and ideas are used to create mental images and give impressions. When we use figurative language in our writing it gives our ideas strength and helps the reader to understand what we mean.
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- Personification is when we write about an object as if it is human, e.g. “the tulips smiled as the sun rose”
- Similes are when we say one thing is like another, e.g. “the snow was on the ground like a thick warm blanket.” Similes contain the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.
- Metaphors say something is something else.
e.g. Tony is a tower of strength. Wayne Rooney is a goal machine.
Your Task:
On the blog below, write three sentences to describe the images above.
You must write 1 simile, 1 sentence using personification and 1 sentence using a metaphor!
Miss Gorick and Mrs Healy 🙂
Good morning,
Here are my sentences:
The snake’s poison hurt like fire.
The bare trees sang in the wind.
The moon shone out of the diamond.
By the way Miss Gorick I was wondering what the writing on Thursday is?
Morning Jeanne 🙂 Great question! We are going to be doing some descriptive writing based on the palace but I will also set a research task/non fiction writing for those who want to do that as well!
The snakes tongue rattles like lightning
The trees were stone towers
The diamond had glimmering eyes
The tree was as solid as ice. – Simile
The sun like diamond shone. – Metaphor
The elastic snake slithered. – Personification
Good morning Miss Gorick and Miss Healy
Here are my sentences:
1. The slithering snake was trying to catch its prey.
2. The abandoned woods were infested of blood thirsty wolves.
3. The preciouse was in great protection
I hope everyone is ok and that we come together again !???✌???????
Good morning miss Gorick and Mrs Healy,
Here are my sentences:
The trees whisled in the wind.
The snake’s poison is a ticket to your death.
The diamond gleamed in the sunlight ,like the moon at night.
Good morning!
Here are my sentences:
The wind danced around my face.
The shoes shone like polished silver.
Her eyes were jewels.
Good morning,
My sentences are:
The shark’s teeth were as sharp as knifes.
The car’s engine groaned with anger.
His brother was a little monkey.
Simile: During the race, Paul ran as fast as a cheetah.
Metaphor: Sam was a nocturnal animal, always awake at night.
Personification: The breeze whistled gently throughout the night.
Sorry, I made a mistake
My new sentences are:
The snake’s teeth were as sharp as knifes.
The diamond showed off its beauty.
The clouds were a blanket covering the bare forest.
Good morning!
Here are my sentences :
The snake’s venonm burnt like lava, every time it touches something .
The bare trees stood in the cold, misty land.
Light beams shine out of the colourful dimond.
Good morning!
Here are my sentences,
The diamond’s beauty was like a trance.
The snake waited to use it’s venom, deadly as fire.
The sky hovered over the dark miserable woods.
Good Morning!!
My Sentences:
The snakes teeth were as sharp as needles.
The wailing wind blew past the trees.
The diamond, so bright, it was fire.
Morning!
The snakes scaly skin was as yellow as the sun.
The trees branches danced away in the howling wind.
Her eyes were diamonds,glistening in the golden sun.
Good morning!
My sentences are:
1.The blue tongue of a snake flickered like a flame in the fireplace.
2. You could hear the whisper of twisted, gnarled trees casting shadows over you.
3. This diamond is merely a money machine in a rich man’s eye.
Hi everyone ?
Here are my sentences:
1)The diamond glistened in the night like stars
2)The black ink trees stood in the cold winter night
3) As the snake hissed the wind howled scaring all the people and animals away.
Enjoy the rest of your day!
Byeeee!!!!
Good morning Miss, these are my sentences:
The snakes tongue crawled out of its mouth like a thousand bugs crawling out of a cave.
The night glowed gloomily, while the menacing, tall trees stood guard.
The diamond sparkled like stars before him. While gazing upon the diamond, he couldn’t comprehend anything that was happening around him.
Good morning Miss Gorick and Mrs Healy!
My sentences are:
1)The snakes eyes punctured holes in your soul .
2)The trees say bare below the damp sky.
3)The diamond shone like a star in the night sky
Good afternoon Miss Gorick and Mrs Healy,
My three sentences are:
1. The snakes eyes pierce through your soul like lasers.
2. The trees glared at me while I was walking through the dark, mysterious woods.
3. The diamond was like a thousand stars in the night sky, gleaming.
The serpent’s tongue is like a black strip of paper flailing wildly.
The diamond plunged deeper still in the dark waters.
The forest air was ice.
Miss Gorick and Mrs Healy,these are my answers;
1) The snake slithers around deciding whether to eat you or not.
2) The trees were closing in on me and i felt like i was going to be choked.
1) The diamond sparkled under the moonlit sky.
Good afternoon all! Thank you for your responses-I’ve read some brilliant uses of figurative language!
Some of my favourites were:
‘The trees glared at me…’
‘The diamond’s beauty was like a trance.’
‘The snake’s poison is a ticket to your death.’
Well done Year 6!
Tomorrow, I will post chapter 2 🙂
Well done Year 6