Guest Blogger: Kayla K.

Most classes are to continue our knowledge throughout school, so I will use a similar topic to what I used on my blog post during first semester. (Don’t worry about frying fish this time.)
It can be very confusing to entirely understand what people “really mean” when they are speaking. You may often hear someone make a comment saying, “Good Morning Beautiful!” after wiping the past night’s nasty drool off of your face or saying, “That’s Hot!” right after you pull yourself up from falling in the mud puddle. If either of those statements are taking seriously it is time to review some Literary Techniques and Figurative Language.
As a teenager I have noticed that I am late, rambunctious, and messy. Not every teenager fits into this category but the majority do. Not only teenagers live under a stereotype, but parents and many adults do also. The stereotypical parent yells at their teenager as they come home late and their room is still not clean. The typical teenager yells back in their defense and promises the laundry to be done tomorrow. To my family this conversation sounds way too familiar.
To clearly understand Literary Techniques and Figurative Language you must be able to identify it in real life terms. To help understand I will provide a weekly argument from my home and some of the language being used.
My mother, with a deep, angry and scary voice (tone) told me that I am five minutes late after curfew and a punishment was in the near future. She used an angry tone to let me know exactly how she felt about me being five minutes late. Quickly, by surprise, she laid the next topic on the reasons why I should be grounded next weekend. In her deck of evil cards she laid a simile down and the comparison of my room to a garbage dump hit me hard. The battle was not over though, with my choice of very strong diction I used the words that got the point across but nothing to burry me further into a hole. Still complaining about my room, my mom used her excellent choice of personification as she said this “Your dirty laundry is laying on your floor patiently waiting to be washed!” That statement caught me off guard as my defense was getting weak. The only thing that came to mind was an insult, but little did I know that one simple insult could end in a months worth of grounding. After my stupid little slip-up of words she quickly used an Apostrophe with the recent death of her mother. “Your Grandmother is crying over the terrible things you do!” My poor grandmother wasn’t present to defend her side, or even living! With the Apostrophe played I knew I had lost the battle, and the next month would be sad and boring.
Not only does my mother use Figurative Language and Literary Techniques to get her point across, many poets and authors use the same method. Now, in or hearing an argument, listen for the Figurative Language with comparing opposites or giving objects person like capabilities, and the other Literary Techniques of word choice and tone.


Ps. My mother is not THAT bad, and I may expand stories a little bit....