Try visiting these links 😉

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopiea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndoche

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax_%28narrative%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litote

I hope I helped 😉

I wouldn’t say it should be banned, but teachers shouldn’t give too much. That is absolutely ridiculous that your sister has 5 projects at one time. You should be doing MOST of the learning and practicing in class. A little homework can help you practice, but if you have tons of homework in several different classes then it’s really not going to help you- you won’t really be learning anything, you’re just scrambling to get all of the work done. My school actually has a really efficient block scheduling system. We have four classes each day like normal block scheduling, but instead of having four classes on A days and four classes on B days, we just have the same four classes every day for one semester, and then switch to the other four the second semester. It helps alleviate the amount of homework, tests, projects, etc. Since you’re always supposed to have two core classes and two electives each semester, the homework really isn’t that bad. Right now I usually just have math homework each night and occasionally projects in English. So I think more middle and high schools should consider doing block scheduling like this. And BeautyBlitz made an excellent point. Some of the things they teach are useless, while there are other more important things that students should be learning. For example, I think I’ve had to read a Shakespeare play every single year since 6th grade, and I’m now in 11th grade. Okay, I’m sure Shakespeare was an amazing author of his time, but really! How is Shakespeare going to be at all useful later in life? They focus on stuff like that, but they put hardly any emphasis on writing, which is something you need to be able to do later in life. And as a result, a lot of kids now write really poorly. My mom noticed this as a teacher, and even I notice it when I have to do stuff like peer editing other students’ papers. We hardly do any writing, yet we have to read Shakespeare every year (which no one can even understand anyway! lol).

The sipliest thing: just google it if you can’t take a book, the first one on the shelf with “theory of litterature” or “rethoric”…

That wud be cheatin.