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Painting with Language?

Painting with Language?. By Laura Thomas. What is Figurative Language?. 1)Figurative language is a tool that an author employs (or uses) to help the reader visualize (or see) what is happening in a story or poem.

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Painting with Language?

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  1. Painting with Language? By Laura Thomas

  2. What is Figurative Language? 1)Figurative language is a tool that an author employs (or uses) to help the reader visualize (or see) what is happening in a story or poem. 2)Figurative language compares two things that are different in enough ways so that their similarities, when pointed out, are interesting, unique and/or surprising.

  3. Some Types of Figurative Language • Simile • Metaphor • Hyperbole • Idiom • Personification

  4. Simile • Simile- comparing two unlike things using “like” or “as” Jenny walked as quiet as an Indian through the woods.

  5. Metaphor • Metaphor- Compares two things that are alike in some way in order to clarify our understanding of one of them I’m drowning in money

  6. Hyperbole • Hyperbole-Big exaggeration usually with humor She ate a ton of pancakes.

  7. Personification • Personification- Gives something human qualities The tree watches him sleep.

  8. Idiom • Idiom-A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements. • Example: The man is the black sheep in his family and is the only one who has not made a success of himself.

  9. Figure Out the Language • The following are examples of which figurative language tools ? 1) Run like the wind. • Sandy is a human calculator. • She ate a mile-high ice cream cone. • The student came into the classroom as loud as a horn. • The new worker is pretty green.

  10. Works Cited • Kids Connect http://www.42explore.com/figlang.htm • Definitions for: Figurative Language • *University of Maribor Faculty of Education Department of English and American Studies • http://www.pfmb.uni-mb.si/eng/dept/eng/text/metaphor.htm • Definitions for Metaphor/examples of language V *Volunteer Web Schools • http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/1poe.htm • Definitions for Figurative Language

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