Lessons Learned

Growing up was difficult especially around my father. Most of what me and my brothers did was wrong and shouldn't be doing it. I remember when I was young I went to go see my friend that happened to walk by, my parents saw me walk by them and after I returned they go upset with me. They always told me not to talk to anybody unless they know that person and, being in the big mexican family I am in! They hear a bunch of stuff. Aside from all that, I thought living was impossible with my father at home. I always feel grounded its home, school, and work, never to really socialize.

Literary Elements: TAKS PT 3

1. SATIRE-A literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.

2. IRONY-A pretense of ignorance of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning.

3. ANALOGY-Inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will prob. agree in others.

4. FORESHADOWING-To represent, indicate, or typify beforehand.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Figurative-Of or relative to representation of form or figure in art

Figure of Speech-A for of expression (as a simile or metaphor used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener.

Imagery-Mental images.

Trope-The use of a word or expression in a figurative sense.

They all mean they want you to get the picture of what you are trying to say.

Remembering 9/11

8 years ago from today i was in the third grade, but I do not remember whose class i was in. all I can remember that the teachers had turned all their tvs' on to the news channel. Yes, in twenty years we will still be remembering this day. Maybe our country to something of theirs and they wanted us to feel the same way. Currently I really don't know anyone who is really affected by 9/11. If i were to write a story about 9/11 I would tell it from the presidents point of view.