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The earth is a living thing

English grade 7

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The earth is a living thing

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  1. The earth is a living thingSleeping in the FOREST GOLDand Figurative Language Poems By;HalaGalal

  2. Figure of speech Metaphor A metaphor states that one thing is something that it literally is not. Metaphors are also commonly created by using a word in its non-literal sense. A metaphor is a figure of speech. Similes A simile is a figure of speech that likens one thing to another (usually by using the word like oras) Personification Personification is giving a human trait or quality to something non-human (e.g., an animal, an object, or a concept).

  3. The earth is a living thingBy:Lucille Clifton • is a black shuffling bear ruffling its wild back and tossing mountains into the sea • is a black hawk circling the burying ground circling the bones picked clean and discarded1 • is a fish black blind in the belly of water • is a diamond blind in the black belly of coal a is a black and living thing • is a favorite child of the universe feel her rolling her hand in its kinky hair feel her brushing it clean What does a lyric poem express? personal thoughts and feelings OR people's exact words Short personal thoughts and feelings Which type of language is used in an imaginative way? figurative OR literal Figurative

  4. The earth is living things • In "Sleeping in the Forest," the line, "as never before / a stone on the riverbed," is what type of figurative language? simile or metaphor • Metaphor • In "the earth is a living thing," what three of the following five things does the poet compare the earth to? bear wolf hawk fish eagle • bear hawk fish In "the earth is a living thing," the poet compares the earth to a bear. What inference can you make about the earth? Fierce OR Confuse Fierce In "the earth is a living thing," what type of figurative language is shown in the line "feel her rolling her hand in its kinky hair"? Personification OR Metaphor? Personification

  5. Sleeping in the FORESTBy:Mary Oliver In "Gold" the lines "I stretch my arms wide as the sky / like a hawk extends her wings" contain an example of Beautiful A smile In " Gold" you can make the inference that poet thinks the desert is Beautiful Which lines from Gold" contain an example of a simile? "I stretch my arms wide as the sky/like hawk extends her wings" • I thought the earth remembered me, • she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens1 and seeds. • I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, • and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. • All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling2 with a luminous doom. • By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.

  6. GOLDBy;Pat Mora Somebody describing a desert, saying it is her favorite spot. She is telling you to appreciate every thing around you as if it were made of gold. Setting : in the desert Personification (wind runs around boulders, sun paints the desert) • When Sun paints the desert with its gold, I climb the hills. • Wind runs round boulders, ruffles my hair. I sit on my favorite rock, lizards for company, a rabbit, ears stiff in the shade of a saguaro. • In the wind, we’re all eye to eye. Sparrow on saguaro watches rabbit watch us in the gold of sun setting. • Hawk sails on waves of light, sees sparrow, rabbit, lizards, me, our eyes shining, watching red and purple sand rivers stream down the hills. I stretch my arms wide as the sky like hawk extends her wings in all the gold light of this, home

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