Tag: Figurative Language

The Search for Mayor’s Pet Calf Daisy

“YAWWWNNNN!!” Gerald woke up, it was a gray morning. The sun was hiding behind a bunch of clouds so there wasn’t much sunlight. However, something so surprising that even Barry the sloth was surprised… Gerald woke up ON TIME! The world must be ending, the clock didn’t have to scream at Gerald a thousand times just so that Gerald would wake up. 

He jumped into his police officer uniform and went to work! There wasn’t that much work to do, he just wrote some stuff and fully finished the already almost completed cases. Break time! Having some instant coffee and watching the news channel on the small tv in the breakroom, “How relaxing.” Gerald thought. 

Until… EEP EEP EEP!! The mayor was on screen talking after the sirens stopped. “My pet calf has gone missing, please call this number on screen if you have seen him around in stormon town.” The mayor sniffled, his nose, eyes and cheeks as red as beetroot. A cute image of a yellow calf with a tiny top hat appeared on screen next to the crying mayor. “Ahem, my apologies,” The mayor blew his nose like an elephant as he walked off screen. His executive assistant walked up to the lecter. “Yellow tiny calf with a top hat, jumps a lot and likes climbing things. If you have seen him, please call xx-xxx-xxx-xxx. The person who finds Daisy the calf will be rewarded with 300 cat dollars.” “300 CAT DOLLARS! That could get me like… 1 thousand jars of instant coffee!!” Gerald thought to himself.

Gerald ran like the flash out of the break room, ready to tell his other co-workers. However, they were already out to go find the calf to get the 300 cat dollars. “Money can get a lot of people moving.” Gerald sighed. Gerald ran back home, since Barry is a giant sloth, he could help Gerald find the calf and get the 300 cat dollars! (300 cat dollars is a lot of money compared to the other normal dollars because… cat.) Once he opened the door, he yelled out for Barry. But, Barry wasn’t there. Frozen with shock, Gerald stood still for a second. “I didn’t lose him again right? Not like last time, there’s no way he’s lost again.” 

“GERALD IS THAT YOUR SLOTH?!” yelled out Gerald’s neighbor as loud as thunder. Gerald quickly turned around to see… Barry the sloth with the mayor’s calf Daisy on his back?! Barry was climbing down the biggest tree in town with Daisy, super slowly though, he’s a sloth so don’t forget that. Gerald ran to the tree, Stormon town is a tiny town so every building is pretty close by. Especially because the tree is huge, it’s bigger than a skytower! 

Gerald called the Mayor’s executive assistant and told them that Barry found daisy. Vroom vroom!  A car came and parked near the humongous tree. After Gerald saw the really tall hat, he knew that was the mayor. “DAISYYYYY!” The mayor shouted as he was running to Daisy.  About to hug her, but she jumped over him. “So mean..” The mayor said in baby talk.

 “Ahem,” The mayor turned towards Barry and Gerald. “Thank you for finding Daisy! Here is the 300 cat dollars.” The mayor grabbed 300 cat dollars out of his wallet. “Oh and! Here is a special gift for Barry.” His executive assistant brought pink glittery new roller skates out of the car. Barry let out a high pitched squeak out of excitement. 

Daisy is found and Barry the sloth gets new glitter roller skates plus 300 cat dollars!

What a happy ending.

Task Description: For figurative language writing, I wrote this! I used a story starters website and it said “Write a story about a jumping cow” something something I forgot. I decided to combine it with characters from my old writing “Finding The Mayor’s Stolen Hat”. I guess the Mayor has a lot of problems.

Task Description:

For writing, we had to make a copy of another doc but instead of hyperbole’s and metaphors it had simile tasks on it. The first activity to write 6 similes that describe yourself! It could be your personality, appearance and more. I couldn’t think of 6 so I only came up with 4. The second activity was to write what we thought each of the similes meant in the box next to it.

This was supposed to be done before hyperbole activities, but I was doing it at the same time and activity 1 of simile activities was pretty hard so I ended up finishing hyperbole activities first.

Task Description:

For writing, we had to make a copy of another doc but it had Hyperbole tasks on it.

The first activity was to read the following hyperbolic statements, and then write down in the box next to it what we think it means. The second activity was to write 5 of your own hyperbole’s and see if a classmate can guess what it means. I was at home so I just wrote it down myself.

 

Task Descripton:

For writing, we had to make a copy of a doc with tasks about metaphors on it and then name it Metaphor Activites.

The first activity was to write a metaphor for each of the following describing words. The words were strong, angry, brave and cheerful. Activity 2 were Metaphor riddles, you had to guess the answer for the riddles (shown in the image above). It was pretty challenging!

 

 

Task Description:

For writing, task 2 of figurative writing. We had to choose to write either a poem or story and include at least 5 figurative language features. This is my one paragraph story, I made it short because I didn’t have that much time. The language features I included are metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, simile, personification and onomatopoeia. I also highlighted where the language features were used.