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Metaphor

Directions: Identify the two things being compared in each sentence and tell in what way they are alike.

1. The lake was a huge mirror in the moonlight.

The lake is being compared to a mirror. This shows that the water was so still and

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smooth that is reflected the moonlight.

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2. The playground became a lake after the thunderous rain.

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3. I am the glue that holds us together.

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Mood

Directions: Read each passage and choose the appropriate mood word. Then, explain your answer by

showing which text from the passage creates the mood.

Mood – The feeling created in the reader’s mind by a literary work. Setting, tone, and events influence mood.

Suggested Mood Words: mournful, despairing, silly, calm, triumphant, desolate, gloomy, dreadful, boring, exciting

1. The Bully by Paul Langan

On Friday morning, Darrell headed to the supermarket parking lot with ten dollars. The four-block walk from

home felt like the longest walk he had ever taken. Each step required great effort, as if his feet were made of

concrete. Even the money in his pockets felt uncomfortably heavy, and every muscle in his legs and back felt slow

and achy. It was as if his body was quietly protesting what he was doing. Darrell knew that paying Tyray was

wrong. The shame and guilt he felt for giving his mother’s money to a bully swept over him in unending waves.

The mood of this passage is despairing.

What is the mood of the passage? ___

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This is despairing because I see words like “slow,” “achy,” Shame,” and guilt.”

How do you know?__

Overall, the character seems weighed down with guilt

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2. Animal Farm by George Orwell

A little way down the pasture there was a knoll that commanded a view of most of the farm. The animals rushed

to the top of it and gazed round them in the clear morning light. Yes, it was theirs—everything that they could see

was theirs! In the ecstasy of that thought they gamboled round and round, they hurled themselves into the air in

great leaps of excitement. They rolled in the dew, they cropped mouthfuls of the sweet summer grass, they kicked

up clods of the black earth and snuffed its rich scent. It was as though they had never seen these things before,

and even now they could hardly believe that it was all their own.

What is the mood of the passage? _________________________________________________________

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