Reading maketh a full man . . . . . Speaking maketh a ready man . . . . . Writing maketh an exact man.

~~Sir Francis Bacon

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Due January 20 (Analogy + new Vocab)

A bird is to flying as I am to ____________. 


Fill in the blank and tell me why. DO NOT fill in the blank with something as mundane as "walking." 

Let your essay tell us something imaginative, unexpected, and well thought out that tells me about YOU.


Same dress up, opener, and dec requirements as last essay. :-)



Here are some beautiful examples of analogies from class:

Watching an exciting movie is like pausing your reality for a moment and joining someone else's.  -- Carson
 
 Watching your horse roll right after you bathe them is like getting shot in the leg; it probably won't kill you but it still causes you physical pain.  -- Erin
 
 Getting caught in a lie is like falling into quicksand; it is hard to get out of and you keep sinking deeper.  -- Max
 
 Watching a bright sunset is like watching an oak tree grow before your eyes; it gets larger and larger and the colors get brighter and brighter then it dies off like it never existed. -- Brecka
 
 Getting caught in a lie is like putting salt instead of sugar into your tea.  -- Brecka
 
 Getting caught in a lie is like being a butterfly that gets caught in a net.  -- Laura
 
 A warm blanket is like a warm, cuddly hug of warmth that wraps around you and instantly makes you feel better. -- GraceAnn
 
 Being lost in the woods after dark is like experiencing blindness. You cannot see and you trip and run into things but once you are used to it, you realize to use your other senses and rely on them. Sometimes you have to be deprived on one thing in life to learn what all else you have and what you can do with it.  -- GraceAnn

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VOCABULARY WORDS:
epithet
exposition
fable
haiku
jargon
palindrome
parallelism
red herring
rhetoric
superlative

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