Lesson Learned

A lesson I learned was to not back talk to my dad. Because one day when I walked in the front door my dad was yelling at Brant telling him that hes grounded. So later I ask Brant what had happened and he said that he was back talking to dad, so he got his phone taken up and got grounded.

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.

Gossip Got Your Tongue?

Well they wouldn't be much different because I don't really ever talk about people in a bad way. But if I did do the triple filter every time I think about talking bad about someone then It would cause me to change the subject or to not say any thing. Some people do it just to hear them selves talk and others do it because they are mad at that person and are trying to make them look bad.

Literary Elements TAKS PT 3

Satire--the use of ridicule, sarcasm, etc. to attack vices, follies, etc.
Irony--expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of their usual sense.
Analogy--similarities in some ways.
Foreshadowing--to indicate or suggest beforehand; prefigure.

Irony example:


Foreshadowing example:

Figurative Language

Figurative--not in its literal sense; metaphorical
Figure Of Speech--word or phrase used in a non literal sense to add rhetorical force
Imagery--mental images or figurative language
Trope--a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression

They all are used to enhance or be over dramatic in explaining what your saying.

Story Spinners Option 3

As I regained consciousness, I remember asking myself where I was when it all started coming back to me. I remembered chasing a man who had stolen my wallet out of the vestibule of the hotel. I chased him out in the street where all of the car headlights nearly blinded me.
I finally caught up to the man and tackled him on the side walk but he was very stubborn and would not give up. Then the cops pulled up arrest him, but when they ask me to put my hands behind my back I was very confused and ask what was going on. They told me that I was being arrested for assault and that I should have let them deal with the man.
So they took me to the police station where I spent the night and was blamed for car accidents that happened dodging me and the man who took my wallet. So I spent the next few weeks doing community service while the man that robbed me was let go after a few nights. Then one day after I was done I was walking home when the same man that robbed me hit me in the back of the head in the dark alley.