Monday, November 17, 2008

Figurative Language - Ongoing

Check your notes and review the figurative language terms: metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, and idiom.

After looking at these terms and examples in your notes, it is your job to be on the lookout for examples of these terms in Freak the Mighty.

In your comment for the week include some example of figurative language that you have chosen from the reading, identify what kind of figurative language is being shown, and tell what it literally means.

Don't stop looking for these terms. As you see new examples, share them as well. You will receive a grade for the week and one for how many "extras" you post for the duration of the book.

Example comment:

I found the following idiom as I was reading Freak the Mighty: "I go, 'You must have ants in your pants,' and he gets this funny look and he goes,'That's what the Fair Gwen always says, did she tell you to say that?" and I shake my head and finish the cereal real slow and Freak goes, 'For your information there are two thousand two hundred and forty-seven known sub species of hymenopteran insects, Latin name, Formicidae, and none of them are in my pants.'"

The idiom is "ants in your pants" which literally means that Freak cannot sit still.

46 comments:

RNguyen said...

I found a onomatopoeia in this section, "Magnesium!" he shouts as the white sparkles glitter down over the pond. "Potassium chlorate!" as the shells go womp-womp-womp and everybody goes oooooohhhhh. "Potassium nitrate! Sulphur! Aluminum!"

The onomatopoeia is "as the shells go womp-womp-womp"

Anonymous said...

I found a few figurative terms. Here's two,"I'll bet we've gone ten miles because my legsthink its a hundred." Hyperbole; thinks he is very tired an over exaggerating how far he;s walked. "Freak is like an alarm clock." Simile; waking up at the same time every morning and wakes up Max.

Treami

Anonymous said...

this is from cheetah978 or my number 201459010

A simile I found was in this sentence.


And he kicks me with his little hoof, like hes digging into a horse.

Its a simile because it is using like. Because he cant really dig into a horse.

I also found a Onomatopoeia, in this sentence, "Of course you can son," And it was like whoa!"

Anonymous said...

Example: Freak is making a fuss and waving his arms and we hear the megaphone sound of a cop voice ordoring us not to move. I think in this sentence there is a hyperbole because when it says hes making a fuss hes not actually crying or anything he is just trying to get the cops attention. to me i think the meaning of literally is to say something without any exageration to not have exageration. posted by 20140050

Gabby101 said...

I found one. It said:

Freak won't let go, he stays right where he is on top of my shoulders even when the cop in the boat tries to pull him off, and then we're up on the bank of the pond and everybody is being real nice and giving us blankets and Cokes and saying they know all about Tony D., they'll keep an eye on him, don't you worry.

That's an idiom and it means that they will watch Tony D.

Swimmer Law said...

I found an onomonopeia on pg. 38 paragraph 5. More splashes as the folowing rocks fall short.

I also found an idiom on pg. 45 paragraph 1. He is in such a hurry nto do somthing , and he goes, "What?"and I go," you must have ants in you pants."

Anonymous said...

i found a simile in the book and it was Freak is an alarm clock, he always wakes me up. I also found and Hyperbole and it was it seemed to take forever to get to the place Freak wanted to get to.

posted by 20140353

Anonymous said...

In chapter 10 "Rats or Worse" Grim says thinks he knows everything. That is an example of, Hyperbole because it is an extreme exageration -EBB

DrueDog21 said...

I found a onomontopiea on page 44 paragraph 3 Freak changes all of that. Each in every morning the little dude humps himself over and he bangs on the bulk head, wonka-wonka-wonka, he may be small but he sure is noisy. "GET OUTTA BED YOU LAZY BEAST! THERE ARE FAIR MAIDENS TO RESCUE! AND DRAGONS TO SLAY!"

ce_starlites123 said...

I found a metaphor.

Freak keeps passing by big houses saying "That's the castle of Avarice," and "Yonder lies the bloated Moat"

He is comparing big houses to old medievil castles.

By: ce_starlites123

mjs1331 said...

heres an onomonipia i found when i was reading Freak the Mighty: Iggy reaches out and flicks his fingres on Freak's nose, WHACK. I can tell it hurts, but freak doesn't say anything, he just tenses up. Iggy goes, "I asked a question, you better answer, get it?

Darknessdragon said...

Some onimonapia I found was when Freak starts talking about dictionary definitions or something like that and he describes sound for one of the definitions.

Mia said...

Mia here. I think that I found a hyperbole. It is this:
Why is that Albino Walrus wearing sunglasses?
I think this is a hyperbole because Max is not really a Walrus. He may be really white but he is not a Walrus.
I also found another hyperbole. It is this.- Just because about a million people show up to watch the rocket's red glare. This is a hyperbole because a there can't be a million people at the pond. It just looks like a lot.

Smiley (: said...

I found a few Figurative languages. Simile: "Freak kicks me with his little foot, like he's digging into a horse." Literal meaning: Freak kicked him really hard.
Onomatopoeia: "I can hear his feet pitter-pattering." Literal meaning: He can hear his feet making a certain noise.
Simile: "He pulls out a dictionary like Arnold Schwarzenegger pulling out a machine gun." Literal meaning: He pulls out a dictionary fiercely.
Hyperbole: "How can you eat that much you big ox?!" Literal meaning: He eats a lot.

Freak2549 said...

I found a hyperbole in this section 'That's how it started, really, how got to be Freak th Mighty, slaying dragon and fools and walking high above the world.'

Freak2549 said...

Oh yeah with my last hyperbole thing it is making an exaggeration about slaying dragons and fools and walking high above the world.

kkern said...

the onomonipia i found was when Iggy reaches out and flicks his fingres on Freak's nose,and WHACK!!!!!!!!!

CEgurrl07x said...

In Freak the might i found a simile:
Freak kicks me with his little foot, like he's digging into a horse."
which really means that he TRIED to kick Freak really hard!

te'amox25 said...

In the book I found 3 different figurative languages'.

Hyperbole: it seemed to take forever to get to the place Freak wanted to get to. Onomonipia: Iggy reaches out and flicks his fingers on Freak's nose, WHACK.
Simile: "He pulls out a dictionary like Arnold Schwarzenegger pulling out a machine gun."
Hyperbole: "How can you eat that much you big ox?!"

Smiley (: said...

I found a few other figurative languages.
Simile: "I'm like a big fence post,and everybody knows that a fence post makes a good target." Literal meaning: He was a very good target.
Hyperbole: "Each and every morning the little dude humps himself over and he bangs on the bulkhead and says "Get outta bed, you lazy beast!" Literal meaning: He is a lazy person who will not get out of bed.
Personification: "He's so full of everyday energy you can practically hear his brain humming." Literal meaning: He is always thinking.

swimmer671 said...

I found a simile on page 33, it says "at the end like always the grand finale and they light off everything it sounds like ww2.

Anonymous said...

I found an onomatopoeia here,
Ahead there's this busy intersection, cars whizzing by, and it all seems sort of familiar.

The onomatopoeia is "cars whizzing by"

football37

Anonymous said...

I found an onomatopeia, it's only part of the sentece "my heart went wham"

Anonymous said...

This is EFCStryker14 or my ID is 201458860
I found a hyperbole in this sentence,
"Freak is talking a mile a minute, more stuff about the Round Table and how important quests are, and why knights are bound up with oaths,"
the hyperbole is "Freak is talking a mile a minute.

Anonymous said...

Freak kicks me with his little foot, like he's digging into a horse.

is as simile because its using the word like.

Freak cant really dig into a horse.

Chelsea W. 3rd hour

clesmh721 said...

i found a Hyperbole"I'll bet we've gone ten miles because my legsthink its a hundred." He is very tired an over exaggerating how far he's walked

jrd13 said...

I found a couple ofo figurative language parts of speech this week. I found a hyperbole. "When I go to the Beach People look at me and say what is that albino walrus doing wearing sunglasses? It is a hyperbole because it is an extreme exaggeration. He isn't really a walrus. It is just saying he is big and pale.

makena12345 said...

Onomatopoeia- Wonka-Wonka-Wonka

Idiom- Got ants in youre pants.

Simile- Like sankes on sneakers.
Lazy as a beast.

smartypants said...

i found alot of examples of figurative language, but i'll give and example of one.
ex. onomonopeia. pg 39 splashes as the following rocks fell short.

Anonymous said...

I found an onomatopia. It was every morning Freak comes over to my house going wonka wonka wonka! That is an onomatopia because the author is writing the words, wonka wonka wonka, just like they sound. That means it is an onomatopia.
- Alexander the Great

josh said...

this is a sentence i found and it is a simile.
and he kicks me with his little foot, like hes digging into a horse.
and an onomatopoeia i found is, faster!yelled freak.

Tuesday11 said...

I found a metaphor in this piece: "One more step," Feak says. "Steady. Steady. Now lift up your hoof- I mean your foot." Freak is comparing Max's foot to a hoof.I also found another piece that is a metaphor: " Go East," he says when I get to the end of the block. "That way, mighty steed! Yonder lies the East!" Freak is comparing Max to a mighty steed or a big horse.

Anonymous said...

I found hyperbole,
in ch. 10 Grim said that he knew evrything, but no one can know everything.

(Logan Pate)

nikki2014 said...

I found a onomatopeia in this sentence. "Anyhow, this is the first day of July, already counting down to the fourth, and wondering where i can get an 180, which is supposed to have the explosive power of a quarter stick of a dynomite or something and when it goes off, your heart THUNDS to a stop for a microsecond, WHAM."

the onomatopoeia in this sentence is WHAM and THUND.

braves_softball12 said...

the words whomp-whomp-whomp was an onomatopeia that i found on page 32...

Austin said...

I found a metaphor "I don't know why I bother. Dinosaurs had brains the size of peanuts.

Unknown said...

I think that "hopping mad" in the sentence, "Trying to jump up and hit this branch with his little crutch, and he's mad, hopping mad.", is a hyperbole. You wouldn't really hop because you were mad.

Anonymous said...

I found two similes, one in here: Man,they can hardly get him loose, the way he's stuck deep in that mud, and before they drag him to shore they're all covered with slime and mud. They're gasping like fish, almost too tired to cuss us out, but that doesn't last.

The simile was they're gasping like fish, which means that they can hardly breathe.

The other simile is somewhere in here: The mud is up over my knees, and I'm locked in place. I can't even fall down, that's how stiff it is. I'm like a big fence post, and everybody knows a fence post makes a good target.

The simile in that one was I'm like a big fence post, which means he can't move and he's very noticable, I think.

Anonymous said...

I found a metaphor.

"Me lying on a blanket you'd go hey why is that albino walrus wearing sunglasses."


Kst8r 4 Life

Anonymous said...

Onomatopoeia:
Wonka-wonka-wonka He may be small but he sure is noisy. "Get out of bed you lazy beast. There are fair maidens to rescue and dragons to slay!"


midnightsun222

Gabby101 said...

I found one. It says:

"You don't say," Grim says, and he has this smug look like maybe Freak is lying and a total goon like me would never get it, and I want to tell him he's wrong about Freak and the dictionary, but instead I just shut my face and go down under.

The idiom is "shut my face", it means to not talk.

Gabby101 said...

I found one. It said:

She has this funny little smile like she's sucking on a lemon and it quick turns sweet and the she goes, "By all means. Let's heat what you have to say. Convince me.

The simile is like she's sucking on a lemon. It means like she is sucking in her cheeks.

Anonymous said...

I found a hyperbole here,
Because of the headphones and the volume being pumped up to mega-decible I never hear him come in, he's just suddenly there, like whoa!

The volume being pumped up to mega-decible can't really happen.

football37

Anonymous said...

I only saw one this time, but I think I'll do better next time. (This one caught my attention because I thought the gift was cool)

When they are celebrating X-mas, Grim annoys Max so he "shuts his face." I believe this is an idiom because it doesn't mean "shut my face" just that he didn't say anything.

-Mesa

Gabby101 said...

I found one. It says:

I don't know if this makes sense, but for a long time I felt like I was a balloon and somebody had let the air out of me.

The similie is felt like a deflated balloon. And that means he is weak or not fully there.

Anonymous said...

I've felt like this before. After Freak has died he says he feels deflated y'know like a balloon.

This is a simile. Max is not an actual balloon but is depressed and sullen at the loss of his friend.

-Mesa