oops...sorry I forgot to post earlier

Oops, sorry I forgot to post the last couple of days.  On Thursday and Friday, we continued with our literary terms.  Look up definitions for the following words:

foreshadowing
flashback
metaphor
setting
simile
symbol

We discussed each of the terms.  We then began the poetry unit on page 505 of the green literature book.  We read and discussed pages 505-507.

Today, we got new literary terms.  Define the following words:

antagonist
apostrophe (not the punctuation mark, but the literary term)
bildungsroman
cacophony
euphony
characterization

We then read the poem on page 508 of the literature book.  It is called Mother to Son by Langston Hughes.

Mother to Son

BY LANGSTON HUGHES

Well, son, I’ll tell you:

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

It’s had tacks in it,

And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor—

Bare.

But all the time

I’se been a-climbin’ on,

And reachin’ landin’s,

And turnin’ corners,

And sometimes goin’ in the dark

Where there ain’t been no light.

So boy, don’t you turn back.

Don’t you set down on the steps

’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.

Don’t you fall now—

For I’se still goin’, honey,

I’se still climbin’,

And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

If you were absent--imagine that you are talking to a younger sibling or child, what might you compare life to?  Ex. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get.  

Create two metaphors that you can compare life to.