Figurative language

A little girl with skinny arms
Fastest thing on two feet
Smelling touching felling hearing
The big kids call me Mercury because I'm the swiftest thing in the neibourhoud
Squeaky voice
Imagery :Describe something with the five senses


Mercury-planet,metal,God
They call skeaky Mercury because she is fast

Metaphor transferring a quality characteristic from on thing to another .France was destroyed by Germany but not Actually destroyed (disappear)just won the country slother.

Figurative language 

Simile:when you compare something that has two similarity so yes

Exemple is similies:

. she tried to get rid of the kitten which had scrambled up her back and stuck like a burr just out of reach.” 

d still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I’m nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the the water.

• You were as brave as a lion.

• They fought like cats and dogs.

• He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys.

• This house is as clean as a whistle.

• He is as strong as an ox.

He was as fast as a cheetah.

The big kids call me Mercury because I'm the swiftest thing in the neibourhoud.

Computer are complicated idiots.

Metaphor:

The snow is a white blanket. 

The hospital was a refrigerator.

The classroom was a zoo.

America is a melting pot.  

Her lovely voice was music to my ears

The house was a complete zoo

Symbols

Apple

Nick 

Batman

 macdonald

Olympics

Shell

Twitter 

Questions of Raymond's run

Inference

1.I don't have much work to do around the house like some girls.My mother does that.And I don't have  to earn my pocket money by hustling;Goerge runs errands for the big boys and sells Christmas cards.And anything else that's got to get done,my father does.All I have to do in life is mind my brother Raymond,which is enought.

This tells us his responsibility.

2."I always win cause I'm the best"

This tell us that she good at running.

3.squeaky:they call her skeaky becuse she is thin and she has a skeaky voice that's why they call her skeaky

A)I'm a little girl  with skinny arms and skinny legs.this exemple us taste touch and see and hear.

B)she runs very fast

4.it tell us that his better then we thought because at the start he tells the writer tells us that he isn't that good for his age and we get impressed because the story tells us that he did something good so we get impressed because we thought that he wasn't good at anything.

Raymond's run 2 word list

Rowdy:loud and annoying

Sentence:lunch!! Simon will you get these loud and rowdy kids please.

Periscope:an instrument that makes things bigger

Sentence:"with a periscope I can see  everything bigger"whispered Charles "no my child It’s almost like a little periscope in the water that allows it to breathe,you can not see the stars with a periscope"mum

Prodigy:A prodigy is somoene who is normally talented at something and they become masters of that particular skill as a child.

Sentence:mozard was hailed as a piano prodigy and in his future he became a pianist and orchestra composer.

Signify:signify means to "mean"so for exemple sometimes there is dirty clouds flying in the air it comes from the cars motor sometimes it leaves dirty clouds behind this signify pollution.

Sentence:"mum I'm going for ballet"the girl screamed "wait today is is your dad's birthday this signify that you are not going"

Corsage:a corsage is a little bouquet of flower you clip to your cloths poeple do this I think because it is there tradition for exemple poeple who died in the war word 2 every body clips poppy  on there cloths it is tradition.

Sentence:last year I wore a poppy to thanks the poeple who fighted in the war and died for there country.

Spiel:A spiel is a lengthy, often glib talk that's intended to persuade or make excuses.

Sentence:we had a long spiel about the children in schoo.

Hustle:it like moving busily.

Sentence:my dad was hustling around trying to find his book and he was late.

Liable: like more chance to do something

Sentence:my sister is more liable to go to Aqua word

Ventriloquist:Ventriloquists prove that even adults sometimes play with dolls

Sentence:I Islowly open the door to not interrupted my grandma was playing with her doll form when she 3 WHAT!!!

Jame-packed:full 

Sentence:the bus that I take to go home"publics transport"was Jane-packed with poeple

Squint:when a light is to strong you make a weard face to protect your eyes

Sentence:ouch I looked up at the son and squint to protect them 

Chit-chat:chit-chat means a little talk Ith somoene

Sentence:because the lesson was Boring I chit-chat chated to my neighbor 

Quicksilver:heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element

Sentence:I touched a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element witch is called quicksilver

Raymond's run

Signify “I don’t think you’re going to win this time 

,” says Rosie, trying to signify with her 
hands on her hips all salty, completely 
forgetting that I have whupped her behind 
many times for less salt than that.

Signify:signify means to"mean"like this signify that they will be danger because... It sort of a "clue"but is is not quite the same.

Prefer

I’m ready to fight, cause like I said 
I don’t feature a whole lot of chit-chat, I 
much prefer to just knock you down right from the jump and save everybody a 
lotta precious time.

Prefer:like something more then the other for example.I prefer the cookie then the apple becaus...

Hustle

And I don’t have to earn my pocket m 
oney by hustling; George runs errands 
for the big boys and sells Christmas cards.

Hustle:when you went to hurry because you have to go somewhere

Periscope

He 
looks around the park for 
Gretchen like a periscope in a submarine movie.

Periscope:A periscope is a tool you use to see things that would otherwise be hidden or obstructed.

Static

Raymond is hollering 
from the swings 
cause he knows I’m about to do my thing cause the man on the loudspeaker has 
just announced the fifty-yard dash, although 
he might just as well be giving a 
recipe for angel food cake cause you can har 
dly make out what he’s sayin for the 
static:static means no moving or changing

RowdyThe 

parkees unfolding chairs and chasing the 
rowdy kids from Lenox as if they had 
no right to be there.

Rowdy:if you rowdy you are loud and noisy

Slosh.And sometimes after a ra 

in he likes to step down off his tightrope 
right into the gutter and slosh around getti 
ng his shoes and cuffs wet.

Slosh:when liquids things slosh they move with a splash 

Uptight

I’ll high-prance down 34t 
h Street like a rodeo pony to keep my 
knees strong even if it does get my mother 
uptight so that she walks ahead like 
she’s not with me, don’t know me, is a 
ll by herself on a shopping trip, and I am 
somebody else’s crazy child.

Uptight:you're stressed out and anxious.

Glockenspiel

Most of the kids in my class 
are carrying bass drums and glockenspiels and 
flutes.

Glockenspiel:A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument comprised of metal bars that are struck with a hammer. 

Land lady

3.Find each of these words in the story, and copy out the sentence where they are found. Use each in a good sentence to show your understanding of their meaning

Vandal:a person Who breaks everything on purpose

Hun:a member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4 th centuries

Mangol:of or relation to the religion of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures

Babarian:

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Homework for Thursday

1.answer the pejorative questions

Many pejorative words are also sexist against women (witch-bad),(wizard-good)

Why might this be?

Answers: I think because wizards are not really in fairytales and the witches if they're playing in a fairytale they are always bad just by saying witch you know that something bad is going to happen and when you say wizard you are not that scared he could be good but he could also be bad I think the compliment of wizard is when they find you smart or something.

2.foreshadowing:foreshadowing is an advance sign or warning of what can happen to you in the future.sometimes the author uses this word in the early chapter of the book they can write foreshadowing to give readers a clue and they might know that something bad is going to happen.

3.foreshadowing and inference are sort of similar words.Foreshadowing is there to tell you that something bad is going to happen in future and inference is like for example I see someone crying so I know that something sad or someone shouted at her,happen that is inference, so the difference between foreshadowing

And inference is that  inference tells you something from the past and foreshadowing tells you from the future I think so.

3.

Swanky

They had porches and pillars and four or five steps going up to their front doors, and it was obvious that once upon a time they had been very swanky residences.

Swanky:imposingly fashionable and elegant,posh

Congenial

On the other hand, a pub would be more congenial than a boarding-house.

Congenial:for example a friend that is easy to get along with like imagine your were going somewhere awesome and you are just allowed to take one friend take a the most congenial one a friend that you are comfortable with.

Rapacious

The name itself conjured up images of watery cabbage, rapacious landladies, and a powerful smell of kippers in the living-room.

Rapacious:for example always wanting more money, possessions, etc.Wanting more than is needed or deserved

Dither

After dithering about like this in the cold for two or three minutes, Billy decided that he would walk on and take a look at The Bell and Dragon before making up his mind.

Dither:a very confused worried or excited state, when you dither,you flustered because you can't make up your mind about something.

Compelling

Each word was like a large black eye staring at him through the glass, holding him, compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was and not to walk away from that house, and the next thing he knew, he was actually moving across from the window to the front door of the house, climbing the steps
that led up to it, and reaching for the bell.

Compelling:compelling means attractive, or irresistible, or really, really convincing

Compulsion

Compulsion:The compulsion or, more accurately, the desire to follow after her
into that house was extraordinarily strong.

Compulsion:Let's say you have a secret. You've promised not to tell, but there's something forcing you to call a friend and spill the beans. This force is compulsion.

Dotty

Dotty:The old girl is slightly dotty, Billy told himself. But at five and sixpence a night, who gives a damn about that?

Dotty:enthusiastic joyful excited...

Dainty:it means tiny delicate and

Dainty:Dear me,” she said, shaking her head
and heaving a dainty little sigh.

Dainty:tiny lovely...

Tantalizing

Tantalizing :there is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this that lingers just outside the borders of one's memory

Tantalizing:something thing tantalizing is tempting you !!!!

Linger

Linger:there is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this that lingers just outside the borders of one's memory

Linger:smells bad!!!

Emanate

Emanate:Now and again, he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate directly from her person.

Emanate:When you use the word emanate, you're usually talking about lights, sounds or unseen forces coming out of a specific source.

emanate:when you use the word the word emanate your are usually talking about light but if you hear emanate in an old house it might be haunted


Now and again, he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate directly from her person.
linger

There is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this that lingers just outside the borders of one’s memory.

malevolent
if someone is malevolent they which evil on somoene

naive
no one like to be called naive because it means lack sophistication