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Go Figure!

Go Figure!. Figurative Language Grades 6-8. Recognizing Figurative Language. The opposite of literal language is figurative language . Figurative language is language that means more than what it says on the surface. It usually gives us a feeling about its subject .

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Go Figure!

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  1. Go Figure! Figurative Language Grades 6-8

  2. Recognizing Figurative Language The opposite of literal language is figurative language. Figurative language is language that means more than what it says on the surface. • It usually gives us a feeling about its subject. • Poets use figurative language almost as frequently as literal language. • When you read poetry, you must be conscious of the difference. Otherwise, a poem may make no sense at all. Printed Quiz Online Quiz

  3. 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.

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

  5. Types of Figurative Language • Imagery • Simile • Metaphor • Alliteration • Personification • Onomatopoeia • Hyperbole • Idioms • Oxymoron • Epigraph • Aphorism

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

  7. Simile • A figure of speech which involves a direct comparison between two unlike things, usually with the words like or as. Example: The muscles on his brawny arms are strong as iron bands.

  8. Metaphor • A figure of speech which involves an implied comparison between two relatively unlike things using a form of be. The comparison is not announced by like or as. Example: The road was a ribbon wrapped through the dessert. • Extended Metaphor • Is a metaphor that continues for more than a couple lines of the poem or story.

  9. 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.

  10. Personification • A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea. Example: “The wind yells while blowing." The wind cannot yell. Only a living thing can yell.

  11. Onomatopoeia • The use of words that mimic sounds. Example: The firecracker made a loud ka-boom!

  12. Hyperbole • An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect. It is not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasize a point. Example: She’s said so on several million occasions.

  13. Idioms • Idioms are phrases which people use in everyday language which do not make sense literally but we understand what they mean Example: "She has a bee in her bonnet," meaning "she is obsessed," cannot be literally translated into another language word for word.

  14. Oxymoron is a phrase or figure of speech that takes two words together that appear to have opposite meanings, but are a contradiction in terms. Sir Thomas Wyatt's version of Petrach's 134th sonnet. • 'I find no peace, and all my war is done • I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice, • I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;

  15. Epigraph • A short quotation cited at the start of a book or chapter to point out its theme. • Example: E . L. Doctorow's "Ragtime" "Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play Ragtime fast."

  16. Aphorism • A short statement of truth • Examples: • Hippocrates: Life is short, art is long, opportunity fleeting, experimenting dangerous, reasoning difficult. • Pope: Some praise at morning what they blame at night. • Emerson: Imitation is suicide • Franklin: Lost Time is never Found again.

  17. Figurative Language Resources • Eye on Idioms (Online PPT) • Paint by Idioms(Game) • Alliteration or Simile?(Quiz) • Similes and Metaphors(PPT) • The Search for Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms(PPT) • Alliteration (PPT) • Onomatopoeia (PPT) • Personification (PPT) • Hyperbole  (PPT) • Idioms (PPT) • Simile (PPT)

  18. Teaching Similes and Metaphors • Alliteration Lesson Plan and Resources http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/1allitera.htm • Hyperbole- Lesson Plans and Resources http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/10lesson.htm • Idiom Lesson Plan http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/6lesson.htm • Imagery- Lesson Plans and Resources http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/imagery2.htm • Lesson Plan for Puns http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/5lesson.htm • Onomatopoeia- Lesson Plans and Resources http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/9lesson.htm • Personification Lesson Plans and Resources http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/7lesson.htm • Proverbs- Lesson Plans and Resources http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/proverbs2.htm

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