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Figurative Language

Figurative Language. Figurative language refers to the words and phrases poets and authors use : To create special emphasis on something. To stir the imagination. To create word pictures that appeal to the senses. Hyperbole is exaggerated language! For example:

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Figurative Language

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  1. Figurative Language • Figurative language refers to the words and phrases poets and authors use : • To create special emphasis on something. • To stir the imagination. • To create word pictures that appeal to the senses.

  2. Hyperbole is exaggerated language! For example: “I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!” “He talks a mile a minute!” Figurative Language

  3. Read each topic. Think: how can you exaggerate it? Write a hyperbole for each topic. The depth of the ocean. The loudness of my friend's voice. The smallness of a baby. Let's Practice... Figurative Language • Write the phrases containing hyperbole or exaggeration in each of the following sentences. • I said no a million times! • Eliza brings enough lunch to feed twenty people. • That fishing line is strong enough to catch a whale.

  4. Figurative Language • A simile shows how things are similar to each other by using words such as like or as. • For example: • “I used to wrap my dreams around me like a blanket.”

  5. Let's Practice... Figurative Language • Read the similes listed below. Write down what is being compared in each simile. • Swinging their arms like windmills, the brothers ran down the sidewalk. • Bruno ate like a starving gorilla. • Lionel was as grumpy as a bear coming out of hibernation. • With eyes as bright as stars, Rosalinda thanked me for the gift.

  6. A metaphoris a type of figurative language that compares one thing to another by stating that one thing is the other. It does not use like or as. For example: John's imagination is a spaceship soaring to the stars. Figurative Language

  7. Let's Practice... Figurative Language • Read the metaphors listed below. Write down what is being compared in each metaphor. • A book is a storehouse of knowledge. • Her sunglasses were a shield against the world. • The pot of chili was a volcano on the stove. • Brian is a steamroller once he makes up his mind.

  8. Figurative Language • Personification gives an animal or object the characteristics or abilities of a person. • For example: • The flowers welcomed spring with open arms.

  9. Let's Practice... Figurative Language • Describe the personification in the pictures below!

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