Lesson Learned

On July 4th we were having a bar-b-q and about to start popping fireworks outside, we were all having excited about it. My dad always takes us to buy fireworks, so we were waiting for him to take us. About ten minutes later he says to get ready to go buy fireworks. When we get there i start buying a lot of different kinds of fireworks. When we started popping fireworks my mom told me not to hold it in my hand and throw it, she said to put it on the floor and light it. I wasn't really paying any attention to what she was saying so i started lighting the fireworks in my hands, it was going real good i was throwing them right. I had found one with a short fuse and thought i would have enough time to toss it in the air, so when i lit it the firework popped right on my hand, it was hurting a lot. I had to go put my hands in some water with cold ice, ans i was thinking to myself about what my mom had told me, i wasn't ever going to to that again.

Comma What?

My father had left our house in the midst of a fight between Lindsey, and my mother. My mother was trying to get Lindsey to go with her to the Y to swim. Without thinking Lindsey had blared, "I'd rather die!" at the top of her lungs. My father watched as my mother froze, then burst fleeing to their bedroom to wail behind the door. He quietly tucked his notebook in his jacket pocket, took the car keys off the hook by the back door and snuck out.

Figurative Language

Figurative language- a distinction in traditional systems for analyzing language. Figuartive language refers to words and groups of words.

Figure of speech a use of a word that diverges from its normal reading or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meanings of words in it such as a metaphor, simile, or personification.

Imagery- is used in literature to refer to descriptive that evokes sensory experience.

Trope- a language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.

All four terms are used everyday.