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Figurative Language

simile. assonance. Figurative Language. personification. Hyperbole . Idioms. metaphor. Alliteration. Imagery . onomatopoeia. Recognizing Literal Language . “I’ve eaten so much I feel as if I could literally burst!”

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Figurative Language

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  1. simile assonance Figurative Language personification Hyperbole Idioms metaphor Alliteration Imagery onomatopoeia

  2. Recognizing Literal Language “I’ve eaten so much I feel as if I could literally burst!” In this case, the person is not using the word literally in its true meaning. Literal means "exact" or "not exaggerated." By pretending that the statement is not exaggerated, the person stresses how much he has eaten. Literal language is language that means exactly what is said. Most of the time, we use literal language.

  3. What is figurative language? Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using figurative language.

  4. Simile: a way of describing something by comparing it with something else using "like" or "as"

  5. Literature Example: How public – like a Frog - I am hungry as a horse. You run like a rabbit. She is happy as a clam. He is sneaky as a snake.

  6. Metaphor: A way of describing something by comparing it to something else (not using like or as)

  7. Literature Example: My voice having tones of thunder The girl was a fish in the water. The clown was a feather floating away.

  8. Irony Is a contrast between what is said and what is actually meant or written

  9. Examples You stay up all night studying for a test. When you go to class, you discover the test is not until the next day. Have you ever seen a horror movie that has a killer on the loose? You, and the rest of the audience, know that the teenagers should not go walking in the woods late at night, but they think a midnight stroll would be romantic. Needless to say, the teens become the next victims. A traffic jam when you're already late

  10. Symbolism • When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else. = innocence = peace = America

  11. Dialect • is a variety of languages that people speak from a particular region or group. • Sometimes in stories authors use dialects to make a character stand out.

  12. Examples~ "Dem Dere" in Brooklyn “ Yah" in Minnesota "Gag me with a spoon" in So. Calif. South: "Y'all" North: "You guys"

  13. Analogy Analogy is a likeness or similarity between things that are otherwise unlike

  14. Examples Song is to sing as clock is to time Book is to read as poem is to rhyme Snow is to flake as water is to ice Hate is to love as mean is to nice

  15. Hyperbole • An exaggerated statement used with great exaggeration. Used to emphasis a point. She’s said so on several million occasions. That ice cream cone was a mile high

  16. Personification to compare something that is not human as if it had human characteristics

  17. The flowers danced in the wind. The friendly gates welcomed us. The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution.

  18. Alliteration: Repetition of the first consonant

  19. Alliteration • Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words or within words. Example: She was wide-eyed and wondering while she waited for Walter to waken.

  20. Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday. Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmy’s on Tuesday. • If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

  21. Allusion Is a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature

  22. Christy did not like to spend money, but she was no Scrooge. I am afraid of spiders but I am no Cowardly Lion. The students at EIS were acting like Greek Warriors Allusion Examples:

  23. Repetition Is the use of sounds, words, phrases, or whole line used more than once.

  24. Repetition Examples: Rain The rain is falling all aroundIt falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here,And on the ships at sea. Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way. Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse opened sleigh~ Hey. Jingle Bells…… Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;All the King's horses and all the King's menCouldn't put Humpty together again

  25. Assonance: The repetition of internal vowel sounds. Doesn't have to rhyme!!

  26. Princess Kitty will kiss Timmy T. Tippers’s lips The pain may drain Drake, but maybe the weight is fake.

  27. Onomatopoeia: • the use of words that mimic sounds.

  28. The firecracker made a loud ka-boom! Yeeeeee Ahhhhhhhh Swish swish swish Glippp Gluppp Gluppp Chug chug chug!!

  29. Imagery Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses. • • Sight • • Hearing • • Touch • • Taste • • Smell

  30. Idioms An idiom or idiomatic expression refers to a construction or expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language. Example: "She has a bee in her bonnet," meaning "she is obsessed," cannot be literally translated into another language word for word.

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