METAPHOR and SIMILE

clipped from www.englishclub.com Metaphor A metaphor is a figure of speech that says that one thing is another different thing. This allows us to use fewer words and forces the reader or listener to find the similarities. The word metaphor comes from the Greek word metapherin (meaning "transfer"). The simplest form of metaphor is: "The [first thing] is a [second thing]." Look at this example: Her home was a prison. Difference Between Metaphor and Simile Both similes and metaphors link one thing to another. A simile usually uses "as" or "like". A metaphor is a condensed simile, a shortcut to meaning, which omits "as" or "like." A metaphor creates a relationship directly and leaves more to the imagination. With simile A is like B. With metaphor A is B. simile metaphor Your eyes are like the sun. You are my sunshine. He eats like a pig. He lives like a pig. He is a pig.

Mid-Term Vocabulary - FLASH CARDS

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HAZARDOUS: "Involving risk or danger"

"skydiving is a hazardous sport"

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FATALLY: "With fatal consequences or implications" adv.

"he was fatally ill equipped for the climb"

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FATAL: "Bringing death; Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance"

-Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
-(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

"the fatal day of the election finally arrived"

"such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"

"a fatal series of events"

synonyms: disastrous, calamitous

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Mother Nature

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Word Web - Free English Thesaurus and Dictionary for Windows

Get this free program! It really helps to look up words immediately while you are on your computer or searching the internet. I do it all of the time now. Once you download and install the program, all you have to do is press "control" while you right-click on the word. Try it. It's so useful.

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ARRAY: "An orderly arrangement; an impressive display"

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Mid-Term Vocabulary words

Here are important words for the vocabulary test on Friday. If you click on the links, you will find more links to dictionary websites etc. where you can look up the words.

New List

amid · array · avid · bait · boxcar · cherish · coast · contemplative · convulsive · crony · dare · embrace · enigma · escalate · evaporate · fatal · fatally · fury · fuss over · fuzzy · gaze · gravel · guerrilla · hazardous · idyllic · implicit · instinctively · mother nature · narration · resonate · shard · silhouette · stall · strut · take for granted · teacher's pet · tempt · threaten · vet · vivid · whiff ·

Important words from the old list

abundant · adolescence · adorn · animated · bobbing · bouquet · breeze · carp · · cloaked · contemplative · cottage · drenched · electrified · endeavors · fate · fervently · fragrant · heron · mourn · nostalgia · orchid · organic food · pastel · perennials · plot · poignant · raven ·

CONVULSIVE: "Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm"

Convulsive:

1. Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions";
2. Resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent; "a convulsive rage"; "convulsive laughter."


Examples in my own words:

* The soccer player got a muscle convulsion in his leg because he didn't exercise well.
* You will get nerve convulsions if you go into a cold environment after a shower.

~Tom

(Tom, I changed "convulsive" to "convulsion" and "climate" to "environment"....Ms. W)

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SILHOUETTE: "The dark shape and outline of something or someone

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silhouette

noun
1. The dark shape and outline of something or someone visible in restricted light against a brighter background.

2. A representation of someone or something showing the shape and outline only, typically colored in solid black.

verb
cast or show as a silhouette.

examples
The castle was silhouetted against the sky.
The mountains stood in the silhouette.

origin;
Named after the French author and politician Etienne de Silhouette.
Later in his life, to save the money,he had a painter drew shadow pictures instead of portraits.This came into fashion and his name spread over.


~Naoko

CONTEMPLATIVE: "Deeply or seriously thoughtful"

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A Great Way to Study Vocabulary

Here is a nice diagram showing word relationships. Learning word relationships will help you remember the words you learn.

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VET, VETERAN, VETERINARIAN - origin

clipped from www.etymonline.com veterinarian animal doctor, 1646, from L. veterinarius "of or having to do with beasts of burden," also "cattle doctor," from veterinum "beast of burden," perhaps from vetus (gen. veteris) "old" (see veteran), possibly from the notion of "experienced," or of "one year old" (hence strong enough to draw burdens). Another theory connects it to L. vehere "to draw," on notion of "used as a draft animal." Replaced native dog-leech (1529). vet (1) 1862, shortened form of veterinarian. The verb "to submit (an animal) to veterinary care" is attested from 1891; the colloquial sense of "subject to careful examination" (as of an animal by a veterinarian, especially of a horse before a race) is first attested 1904, in Kipling.

VET: "A doctor who practices veterinary medicine; A person who has served in the armed forces "

TAKE FOR GRANTED: "Take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof"

IDYLL: "A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life"

ENIGMA: "Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; mystery"

EMBRACE: "Include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory; Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, "

CONTEMPLATIVE: "Deeply or seriously thoughtful"

AVID: "Marked by active interest and enthusiasm"

"an avid sports fan"

ARRAY: "An orderly arrangement; An impressive display"

RESONATE: "Sound with resonance; vibrate"

CARP

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COTTAGE: "A small house with a single story"

see also "bungalow"

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Heron

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Dahlia

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