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What is figurative language?

What is figurative language?. Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using figurative language. I SHAMPOO. Figurative Language. Imagery. Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses. • Sight

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What is figurative language?

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

  2. I SHAMPOO Figurative Language

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

  4. Idioms • An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings • The coach and players threw in the towel.

  5. WHAT DO THESE IDIOMS MEAN? • YOU ARE A HOT POTATO. • A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS. • COSTS AN ARM AND A LEG. • THE BALL IS IN YOUR COURT.

  6. Simile • Comparison using like or as • My mom was as blind as a bat

  7. Hyperbole • An exaggeration • My dad had a heart attack when he saw my grade.

  8. COMMON HYPERBOLE: • I am so hungry I could eat a horse. • I had a ton of chores to do. • If I can’t get a Smartphone, I will die. • She is as thin as a toothpick. • This car goes faster than the speed of light. • Our new house cost a bazillion dollars.

  9. Alliteration • Two or more words of a word group with the same letter • Betty Blake bought big butter.

  10. Metaphor • Comparison NOT using like or as • She is sunshine, brightening our day

  11. Personification • Giving living characteristics to non-living things • The printer ate my paper

  12. Oxymoron • Contradictory terms are used in conjunction • Inside out; cold sweat; alone in the crowd

  13. FOR EXAMPLE • Great Depression • Jumbo shrimp • Cruel to be kind • Pain for pleasure • Clearly confused • Act naturally • Beautifully painful • Painfully beautiful • Deafening silence • Pretty ugly

  14. Onomatopoeia • The formation of a word, intended as an imitation of a sound • Bang! Zip! Meow!

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