Stage 8 practise

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Today

Quoting from a text

Paraphrasing/synonyms/figurative language

Answers to the questions

Your questions...

Strategy: Quoting from a text

If you are quoting from a text, follow these rules:

- Start and end your quote with single or double qoutations marks: "and ...".

-Look at the question again, what information is it asking you for?

- Write down the whole sentence/phrase you think contains the answer

- write your answer and find the quote that matches (support your answer)

                      Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing:

Questions says "in your own words"

Don't quote from the text!

Look at test example q2

Synonyms

-Different words with the same meaning.

-Example: correct-right or brief-short.

Synonyms

Start - Begin

Pretty - Lovely

Large - Enormous

Tired - Sleepy

Sick - Ill 

Happy - Cheerful

Group assignment

How many synonyms can you find for: 

simple 

fair 

grand  

ancient

positive

create

Group assignment

How many synonyms can you find for: 

simple  - easy, uncomplicated, manageable, effortless

fair - just, honest, trustworthy, honourable, unbiased

grand  - large, magnificent, impressive, splendid 

ancient - old, prehistoric, earliest

positive -  constructive, enthusastic, supportive

create - produce, design, make, generate, build

Imagery 

Alliteration

When a consonant sound at the start of the word is repeated within a line. 

Make an example with alliteration.

Onomatopoeia

Word is written like it sounds.

Which onomatopoeic words do you know?

Metaphor

• Imagery (beeldspraak)
• A comparison without using 'like' or 'as'


• Does not literally mean what it states
  
  
• Right before confronting her teacher she got cold feet.
• She became afraid and did not want to do it anymore.
• All the world is a stage (a famous quote by Shakespeare)
• Here the world is compared to a stage with actors on it, life is just a play

more examples

Simile

• Comparison using 'like' or 'as.'

• The dark clouds covered the city like a thick black blanket.
• School is like hell. 

Try using a simile yourself and be original...!

Find examples

Look at the story text

Which examples of figurative language can you find in the story?

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