Name: ______Class: ______Date: ______
LEARNING TO DESCRIBE...
JUST TO REVIEW...
When we describe things, we use:
Ø Similes (He was light as a feather; happy like a clown)
Ø Alliteration (tricky Tommy, naughty Nurul, clever Craig, jolly James, crafty Chris, Yippee it’s Yaekub)
Ø Sound words (bang, crash, tinkle, rustle) (Onomatopoeia) image from thechickencage.wordpress.com
I. A SIMILE is a comparison which uses LIKE or AS
He was as dumb as a ______
He ran fast like ______
He stood as still as a ______
She was a small skinny old hag with a mouth as sour as a green ______
II. ALLITERATION
A b______bouncy baby
It tasted crisp and c______
It tasted marvelously m______
III. ONOMATOPOEIA - Sound words
The clock ______noisily.
He heard the distant ______of thunder
The leaves ______in the breeze
The dining room was filled with the ______sound of the knives and forks on the plates.
MORE PRACTICE...
1. Its skin was a dull, ______(pale/light/greasy,scaly) grey and its eyes were (bright, fiery, blood, pretty) red.
2. The wind______(blew, moaned, howled) all around me
3. The branches and trees ______together as the storm blew across the field.
4. It as huge as a ______; its ugly scaly body was like a ______.
5. The huge shape ______out of the darkness.
6. All I could hear was the ______throb of blood in my veins
7. Its ______breath was ______
IDENTIFYING DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE...What features have been used? Write the corresponding feature on the line to the left of the sentence...
METAPHOR SIMILE ALLITERATION SOUND WORDS
1. ______/ In the black mouth of the passage, something huge and horrendous was moving towards him2. ______/ It had short legs as thick as tree trunks
3. ______/ He heard a rumbling, then a low grunting and the shuffling footsteps of gigantic feet
4. ______/ He stared into the black mouth of the passage
The Monster by JK Rowling
Harry sniffed and a foul stench reached his nostrils – it was a mixture of old socks and rotting meat.
And then he heard low, heavy breathing, followed by a rumbling, then a low grunting and the shuffling footsteps of gigantic feet. Ron pointed into the darkness; in the black mouth of the passage, something huge and horrendous was moving towards him. He shrank into the shadows and watched as it emerged into a patch of moonlight. His heart pounded in his chest; he felt beads of sweat run down his back. His body froze with terror
It was a horrible sight. Twelve feet tall. Its skin was a dull, granite grey, its lumpy body like a boulder with its small, bald head perched on top like a coconut. It had short legs as thick as tree trunks with flat, horny feet. The smell coming from it was powerful and sickening. It was holding a huge wooden club, which it dragged noisily along the floor because its arms were so long.
Identifying Descriptive Language in “The Monster”
What he could SEE / darknessWhat he could HEAR
What he could FEEL
What he could SMELL
SIMILES
ALLITERATION
SOUND WORDS / rumbling
METAPHORS
More Practice:
As I approached I could hear ______
(a rumbling, crashing, thud, heavy footsteps, thumping)
Then it appeared. It was a terrifying sight. Its skin was
(green, slimy, like a snake, scaly like a dragon)
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It was (describe its size)
Its eyes were (fiery, bloodshot, red, staring, like fire)
Its jaws ___
Its nostrils
its ______claws
The smell was ______
The sound of its breathing was like _____
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YOUR OWN MONSTER…
Now write some sentences of your own about your monster.
Optional: Feel free to add adjectives in front of the nouns given as well as to delete the word ‘like’ as needed…
Its jaws were like ______
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The smell was like ______
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I could hear like ______
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Its nostrils were like ______
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Its eyes like ______
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Its hands were like ______
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In its claw-like hand like ______
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