Monday, March 8, 2010

Lesson Learned

One day last year I was in shop class and Saul and I were playing around. Mr. Johnson sent us to the office and we had to get swats. And it was the day before Christmas break to. I guess I learned not to that again.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Comma What

My father had left our house in the midst of a fight, between Lindsey and my mother. My mother was trying to get Lindsey to go with her to the Y to swim. Without thinking, Lindsey had blared, "I'd rather die!" at the top of her lungs. My father watched as my mother froze, then burst fleeing to their bedroom to wail behind the door. He quietly tucked his notebook in his jacket pocket, took the car keys off the hook by the back door, and snuck out.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Literary Elements: Taks PT 3




1.Satire-A literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.

2.Irony-A pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other;s false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning.

3.Analogy-Inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will prob agree in others.

4.Foreshadowing-To represent, indicate, or typify beforehand.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Figurative Language

Figurative- Departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical.

Figure of Speech- A word or phrase used in a nonliteral sense to add rhetorical force to a spoken or written passage.

Imagery- Visually descriptive or figurative language.

Trope- A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.

They are all metaphorical.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Story Spinners: Option 3


As I regained consciousness, I remember asking what happened. The doctor said I was beaten and left unconscious in a dark alley. I sat up in my bed at the hospital trying to remember what happened, it finally came to me. I remember headlights in front of me, two guys got out of the car. They had bats, I tried running as fast as I could but they caught me quickly and started beating me.

Still thinking about what happened I don't know who was going to take the blame for this. I had to get up and walk around for a little while. The doctor told me to lay back down but I was to stubborn to. I was walking up and down the vestibule still thinking who that could have been, But I couldn't. So I just walked back to into the room and lied back down.