Self-Directed Learning for Creative Writing and Language Features

I am learning ready because I have thoroughly prepared myself with my stationery and laptop since the very beginning of the year. I have a learning ready attitude and am ready to work through learning in order to reach my goals.

Speaking of goals, the learning goals I would like to set for myself throughout the year is to achieve Excellence endorsement, either through an array of subjects such as science and English, or to get the entire certificate endorsed. The learning goal now is to complete the language features grid and successfully understand them.

I will achieve these goals by successfully connecting with my peers and my teacher to enhance my work by accepting their feedback. As well as learning from them based off of their work and offering them feedback based on their work.

Something I need to focus on when I next do a task similar is to format it differently as copying from the slides is very slow and tedious. 

Language Features

Simile

Comparing two things, saying something is like or as 

something else.

Examples:

She was as fast as a rocket.

The rain was like a raging herd of bulls with their hoofs thundering against the concrete.

The gentle thud of the book falling was like a strike of lightning in the ever silent library.

Metaphor

Comparing two things, saying something is something else

Examples:

The moon was a drop of silver in the night sky.

The man was an angry mouse compared to the bears that yelled at his complaints.

The bug was the elephant in the room.

Personification

Giving objects or non-human things human characteristics

Examples:

The wind was breathing in my ear.

The thunder groaned like an old man.

The roses whispered secrets and the daisy’s whispered lies.

Alliteration

The repetition of letter sounds

Examples:

Peter picked his pears politely from the park.

Simon sold seven sporadic spaniels by his sister’s sole sanctuary for spry scorpions.

Netta nestled between Norman and Nancy, nudging Nathaniel to nod nervously.

Hyperbole

An exaggeration

Examples:

I've told her that a million times!

I'm so hungry I could eat an elephant!

I swear this exam is going to be the death of me!

Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds

Examples:

The cart went to the market for the chance to barter.

The purple curtain gurgled.

The night light was extremely bright.

Oxymoron

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

Examples:

Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

The millionaire was a cheap man.

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Consonance

The use of the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns as a rhyming device.

Examples:

Claire was caught drinking beer at the fair. 

The pigeon went coo, the cow went moo, and the baby went woo.

Thomas made his promise not to talk about how rare his name Caccamise was.

Epistrophe

When you end each sentence with the same word, that’s epistrophe.

Examples:

When each clause has the same words at the end, that’s epistrophe.  When you finish each paragraph with the same word, that’s epistrophe.  Even when it’s a whole phrase or a whole sentence that you repeat, it’s still, providing the repetition comes at the end, epistrophe.

It was bad. It was really bad. The mess we got ourselves in was horribly bad.

She was having a good day. Then they came along and made it a very very bad day. But nonetheless, she would make it better again, make it her good day.

Chiamus

The words of the first half of a sentence are mirrored in the second.  They are deliberately turned back to front and then repeated.

Examples:

John F Kennedy told America that “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."

We must write to be happy; to be happy we must write.

Humanity will be destroyed by animals or humanity will destroy the animals.

Isocolon

Isocolon is two clauses that are grammatically identical or two sentences that are structurally the same. Usually, they’re short and snappy.  

Examples:

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Roses are red, violets are blue.

Colder than ice, hotter than fire.

Epanalepis

A repetition of a word or a phrase with intervening words setting off the repetition, sometimes occurring with a phrase used both at the beginning and end of a sentence.

Examples:

Only the poor really know what it is to suffer; only the poor.

A really good man was he, kind, considerate, gentle, he was a really good man.

The night was cold and desolate and empty and barren, the night was cold.

Anadiplosis

Repetition in the first part of a clause or sentence of a prominent word from the latter part of the preceding clause or sentence, usually with a change or extension of meaning.

Examples:

Yoda is known for wrong his word order getting, but his most quoted line, from Star Wars, uses an entirely different technique.  Yoda announces that fear leads to anger.  He then takes the last word of that sentence and repeats it as the first word of the next: anger leads to hatred.  He then takes the last word of that sentence and repeats it as the first word of the next: hatred leads to suffering.

Homework leads to achievement, achievement leads to education, education leads to a career.

No pencil leads to no notes, no notes lead to no studying, no studying leads to failing test.

Lists

A list; record; catalogue

Examples:

“… you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat’s tongue, you bull’s pizzle, you stock-fish!  O for breath to utter what is like thee!  You tailor’s-yard, you sheath, you bowcase, you vile standing-tuck …”

The dragon was huge, scaly, muscly, and fearsome.

School needs pencils, pens, books, paper, rulers, calculators, markers, highlighters, food, a laptop and a bag.

Antithesis

A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

Examples:

Love is the antithesis of selfishness.

She was good; he was bad.

The dragon was humongous and fearsome while the fairy rested daintily on her shoulder, tiny and pretty and she sat calmly.