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Figurative Language

Figurative Language. Definition. Also called Figures of Speech, writing or speech meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally. They include metaphors, similes, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, idioms, analogies, imagery, alliteration, assonance, and symbolism. Metaphors.

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Figurative Language

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  1. Figurative Language

  2. Definition Also called Figures of Speech, writing or speech meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally. They include metaphors, similes, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, idioms, analogies, imagery, alliteration, assonance, and symbolism.

  3. Metaphors • A direct comparison between two dissimilar items • One thing is spoken or written about as if it were another • Formula: The (first subject) is a (second subject).

  4. Juliet Romeo

  5. Juliet is the Sun!!!

  6. This is SO not worth it!

  7. Simile • An indirect comparison between two dissimilar items • Uses the words: like, as, than, appears, and seems. • A comparison using like or as • Formula: (Subject A) is like (Subject B)

  8. “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.” - Forest Gump As good as gold. - Charles Dickens She walks in beauty like the night - Lord Byron

  9. Difference Between Metaphor and Simile Metaphor Direct Juliet Simile Indirect Like/As

  10. Hyperbole • A boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intended to be literally true • An exaggeration made for effect

  11. Your hiding something cuz it's burning through your eyes. - New Found Glory An hundred years should go to praise thine eyes and on they forehead gaze - Andrew Marvell

  12. Onomatopoeia • The use of words or phrases that sound like what they name • Can also refer to an entire line of text where the sounds of the words are used to convey the meaning of the text

  13. My stick fingers click with a snicker and chuckling, they knuckle the keys. - John Updike Oh CRASH! my BASH! it's BANG! the ZANG! Fourth WHOOSH! of BAROOM! July WHEW!

  14. Personification • Human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things • Something not human is described as if it were human

  15. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore!” - Edgar Allen Poe

  16. Wild Goose Chase Threw him a curve ball I'll cross that bridge when I come to it Idioms • An expression whose meaning cannot be determined by the literal meanings of the words, but has a figurative meaning based on conventional use • Very similar to a slang term

  17. A country boy in the city acts like a small fish in a big pond in that they're both completely unprepared, and both have a lot of adapting to do. Analogies • An analogy is a comparison of things that are alike in some ways but different in others • Formally seen as: “Shoes are to feet as tires are to cars.” • Formula: A:B::C:D

  18. Kit Carson County Community College Descending Dewdrops Keen Car Alliteration • the same sound appears at the beginning of two or more consecutive words • Commonly seen in Tongue Twisters

  19. The black cat whacked the rat with a bat. Hear the mellow wedding bells Assonance • Repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words • Most commonly found within the word, not at the beginning

  20. Sizzling bacon Scent of fresh flowers Feel of sand beneath your feet Dark clouds looming on the horizon Bitter taste of saltwater Imagery • Language that creates a concrete representation of an object or experience • Anything that addresses the senses, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, or actions

  21. Tyger, tyger burning bright in the forests of the night, what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry - William Blake The Tyger stands as an actual tiger but also all other things considered evil Symbolism • Something that stands for or represents itself and something else • Something that evokes a range of meaning beyond its literal meaning

  22. Your Assignment • Using your poetry booklet, you are to find 5 examples of each type of Figurative Language which the following exceptions: Alliteration, Assonance, Analogies • Along with identifying it, pick one example and explain how it meets the definition of the Figure of Speech on your Graphic Organizer T

  23. She is sly like a fox

  24. Clank

  25. It feels like I hit a brick wall!

  26. The mountain held the town

  27. The sea will be his watery grave

  28. He ate everything at the house

  29. Squeeze the silent, startled snake in September

  30. The jingling bells

  31. All the world is a stage

  32. Dead as a doornail

  33. Kicked the bucket

  34. I could eat a horse

  35. The pen ran across the paper

  36. The big bee buzzed behind the bonnet

  37. Flash in the pan

  38. His voice is the roar of a lion

  39. The pig sighed in disbelief

  40. He threw it a thousand miles per hour

  41. As big as the sky

  42. Boom

  43. The clouds cried

  44. Hanging by a moment

  45. Spun like a top

  46. Always arrest angry alligators

  47. War rages on like a forest fire

  48. The wind whispered a secret

  49. She appeared like an angel from the sky

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