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Vivid Imagery: Exploring Figurative Language

Discover how authors utilize similes, metaphors, idioms, and hyperboles to create imaginative descriptions that bring stories and poems to life. Learn how these tools enhance storytelling and engage readers in a journey of visualizing beyond the literal. Explore extended metaphors and dive into the art of exaggeration to convey profound meanings. Unveil the magic of figurative language in crafting compelling narratives.

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Vivid Imagery: Exploring Figurative Language

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  1. Figurative Language • Tool that an author uses to help the reader visualize what is happening in a story or poem. • A descriptive statement that is not literal! (does not really mean what it says) • Simile • Metaphor • Idiom • Hyperbole

  2. Simile • Comparison of two dissimilar things using “like” or “as” • “The pads were worn down slick as the rind of an apple.” (p. 5) • “I had lost weight and was as thin as a bean pole.” (p. 17)

  3. Metaphor • States that one thing is something else • Comparison that does not use “like” or “as” • Life is a mountain, difficult to climb and with few straight paths to the top. • You are my sunshine. • She’s such a witch.

  4. Extended Metaphor • Metaphors can be extended so that different aspects of the things compared are treated separately • Makes the metaphor “bigger” • Billy’s dog-wanting as a “disease” • Symptoms • Treatments • Results

  5. Idiom • A phrase whose words have a meaning different from their usual meaning. Examples: “It’s raining cats and dogs!” “I’m in over my head!” “She’s in the dog house!” “Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill!”

  6. Hyperbole • Exaggeration used to make a point. Examples: “My dog is so ugly he only has cats for friends” “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!” “I’ve told you a million times to be quiet!”

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