1 / 20

Figurative Language

Figurative Language. Alliteration – repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of a word Anaphora – repetition of the same word at the beginning of several clauses or verses. Antithesis - Putting contrasting ideas in phrases

jorn
Download Presentation

Figurative Language

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Figurative Language • Alliteration – repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of a word • Anaphora – repetition of the same word at the beginning of several clauses or verses. • Antithesis - Putting contrasting ideas in phrases • Apostrophe – breaking off to address some absent person or thing, an object, or imaginary character.

  2. Figurative Language • Alliteration • Anaphora • Antithesis • Apostrophe • "You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife.“ • "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.“ • "I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name. I don't like your jerk-off face. I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off.“ • "Hello darkness, my old friendI've come to talk with you again . . .."

  3. Figurative Language • The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.“ • "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun.“ • "You're easy on the eyesHard on the heart.“ • "Blue Moon, you saw me standing aloneWithout a dream in my heartWithout a love of my own."

  4. Figurative Language • AssonanceSimilar vowel sounds within words that are neighbors. • Chiasmus The second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. • EuphemismThe substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit

  5. Figurative Language-Matching • Euphemism • Assonance • Antithesis • Chiasmus • "Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.“ • "You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.“ • Dr. House: I'm busy.Thirteen: We need you to . . .Dr. House: Actually, as you can see, I'm not busy. It's just a way to say "get the hell out of here.“ • Everybody doesn’t like something, but nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee.

  6. Figures of Speech-Identification • "In the end, the true test is not the speeches a president delivers; it’s whether the president delivers on the speeches.“ • "It beats as it sweeps as it cleans.“ • "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.“ • "Wardrobe malfunction"

  7. Figurative Language • HyperboleAn exaggerated statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or stronger effect. • IronyThe use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is the opposite.

  8. Figurative Language - Matching • Alliteration • Hyperbole • Anaphora • Irony • Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room • Good men are gruff and grumpy, cranky, crabbed, and cross • I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I want her toaerobicize. • Your father is so low he has to look up to tie his shoes

  9. Figurative Language - Identification • Your mama's hair is so short she could stand on her head and her hair wouldn't touch the ground • Great events are greeted with gleeful cheers. • English is easy to learn if you can spell the words. • Get to school. Get to class. Get to work or be last.

  10. Figurative Language • LitotesAn understatement in which the positive is illustrated by showing the opposite is wrong. MetaphorA comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common

  11. Figurative Language - Matching • Euphemism • Litotes • Chiasmus • Metaphor • We are not amused • Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you • She went to the little ladies room. • The streets were a furnace.

  12. Figurative Language - Identification • Her eyes were stars burning brightly. • This is not pre-school, elementary, or middle school. • Is it quiet in here, or am I quiet in here. • He had an accident in his pants.

  13. Figurative Language • Metonymy One word or phrase is substituted for another that has a similar meaning; also, describing something indirectly by referring to things around it • OnomatopoeiaThe use of words that imitate sounds • Oxymoron Contrasting or contradictory words appear side by side

  14. Figurative Language - Matching • Irony • Oxymoron • Metonymy • Onomatopoeia • The suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings • The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep • He is as smart as a soap dish • "Plink, plink, fizz, fizz"

  15. Figurative Language - Identification • The White House asked the television networks for air time on Monday night • He asked for his money back but he got in for free. • I'm getting married in the morning!Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime • Original Copy

  16. Figurative Language • ParadoxA statement that appears to contradict itself. • Personification Inanimate object or ideas are given human qualities or abilities • PunA play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words

  17. Figurative Language - Matching • Metonymy • Pun • Personification • Paradox • The sun reaches down with bright hands to warm her face. • The pen is stronger than a sword. • Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana • War means peace

  18. Figurative Language - Identification • In Love there is always hate. • You said we should be able to read our text so that was why I was looking at my cell phone. • War holds a bloody flag and calls it glory. • Lend me your ear.

  19. Figurative Language • SimileA stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two basically different things that have some similar qualities. • SynecdocheA part of something is used to represent the whole • UnderstatementA writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is

  20. Figurative Language - Matching • Oxymoron • Understatement • Simile • Synecdoche • 9/11 • Jumbo Shrimp • My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain • I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain

More Related