Literary Device of the Week

Victoria is a world class, state of the art kinda girl. She is as sweet as honey and as gentle as a lamb. She is as nutty as as a fruitcake, but also is a tack, so sharp and intelligent. Victoria is also as pure as the driven snow.

This was as cheesy as the moon. :)

Victoria a cat, always quiet and shy until she gets to know you. Then when she does she is as loud as a squealing pig. Sometimes she can get as nervous as a cat in a rocking chair factory. Other times she is a lion, and is very brave. She is sometimes a couch potato and is as lazy as rug.

The Epic

An epic is a very long narrated story that is sung or recited as poetry and is passed down many generations in that way.


Three characteristics of an epic are:


1: The main character is larger than life. lines 140-142 "You may be a good man in a fight, Achilles, and look like a god..." He is an amazing warrior and he is half god, half mortal. That seems larger than life to me.


2: The gods play an active roll in the story. Lines 205-228 "Athena came...and grabbed his sandy hair" Athena came down and stopped Achilles from killing Agamemnon, and therefore played an active roll and was physically there in the story.


3: Poem begins with a statement of the theme. The Illiad starts like this "Rage: Sing, Goddess, Achilles rage" which begins with, obviously, the theme of rage and anger.


The image of superman represents an epic to me because superman is amazing and larger than life. He can do things a normal person could never do. Plus the only thing that can kill him is kryptonite. He also has a dad that could be classified as a god (he could be too).

My Hero

He was noble. He was brave. He was respected. He was strong. He was honorable. He was our sixteenth president. He is Abraham Lincoln, my hero.

Abraham Lincoln is my hero because he was and is all those things and more. He lead the United States through its most devastating time, the civil war, and kept our nation undivided and united. He also stopped slavery from spreading and made it illegal with the emancipation proclamation and the thirteenth amendment.

Abraham Lincoln is a hero to many, but there is always someone who disagrees with or dislikes someone. In Lincolns case it was those who thought he should compromise on the slavery issue, the Confederate army, the southern sates in the civil war, and of course John Wilkes Booth and his followers who assassinated him.

30 things you didn't know about me

1. I love thriller/horror movies.


2. The only pets I've ever had are fish.


3. I can't sleep without a blanket over me.


4. I used to have major OCD.


5. My favorite superhero is Superman.


6. Otter pops give me a sore throat.


7. I've never been stung by a bee.


8. I'm the only person in my immediate family who has broken a bone.


9. I have 1 half brother, 1 half sister, and 1 full brother.


10. This is my first blog ever.


11. I get sick if I see blood, cuts, stitches, surgeries, etc.


12. I have never been out of the country.


13. I like photography.


14. I know pretty much nothing about computers.


15. I always play with/twirl my hair.


16. When I was in kindergarten I beat everyone at my school(k-12th grade)at a game in basketball called bump.


17. I was food poisoned by eating a piece of candy from a clown.


18. I can't stand Will Ferrell.


19. In the same basketball game I scored 2 points for the other team.


20. My favorite movie is "Raising Helen."


21. I love watching football.


22. My celebrity crush is Shia LeBeof(I have no idea how to spell his name though).


23. My favorite subject is English.


24. I always have something on my wrist(watch, hairband, etc.).


25. My favorite theme park is six flags.


26. I like all things Disney.


27. I still have one of those tickle me Elmo stuffed toys.


28. I hate the nails on a chalkboard sound.


29. I hate the smell of cooking brownies.
    

30. My favorite color is green.