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Go Figure!

Learn about the different types of figurative language used in poetry, such as similes, metaphors, personification, and more. Understand the impact of figurative language on a poem's meaning and how to interpret it.

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Go Figure!

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  1. Go Figure! Figurative Language

  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 gives us a FEELING about a 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.

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

  4. Types of Figurative Language • Imagery • Simile • Metaphor • Alliteration • Personification • Onomatopoeia • Hyperbole • Idioms • Symbolsim • Mood • Tone

  5. Personification • A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to something that is not human (an animal, an object, an idea, etc.). Example: “The wind howls while blowing through the trees." The wind cannot howl. Only a living thing can howl.

  6. Imagery • Language that appeals to one or more of the five senses. Descriptions of people or objects are stated in terms of sensory details. • • Sight • • Hearing • • Touch • • Taste • • Smell

  7. Simile • A figure of speech that involves a direct comparison between two unlike things, usually with the words like or as. Example: The muscles on his brawny arms are as 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 does not use like or as. Example: The road was a ribbon wrapped through the dessert.

  9. Alliteration • Repeated sounds/letters occurring at the beginnings of words or within words (tongue twisters). Example: She was wide-eyed and wondering while she waited for Walter to waken.

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

  11. Hyperbole • An exaggerated statement used to heighten the effect. It is not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasize a point. Clue: Prefix=hyper  Example: She has said so on several thousand occasions.

  12. Symbolism • A person, place, or object that stands for something more than just itself Example: Make two columns: Object and represents Object…………What it represents

  13. Idioms • An idiom or idiomatic expression refers to a construction or expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language and has a different meaning than what it actually says. Example: "She has a bee in her bonnet," meaning “She is obsessed with something," cannot be literally translated into another language word for word because of its meaning.

  14. Tone • This is what the author wants you to feel. It is their own attitude. You will not be told the tone but will have to infer it (word choice). Example: It was a dark and stormy night…

  15. Mood • This is how we feel while we are reading a book or passage. • The tone has an impact on this, but IT MAY NOT be the same. • Mood is based on our own experiences, feelings, and perspective.

  16. Pun • a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a wordor the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings • Mr. Mueller’s jokes are tear able. Take one. LOL  • I’ve been to the dentist many times, so I know the drill!

  17. Oxymoron • a figure of speech in which, what would normally be contradictory, opposite terms appear in conjunction (together in the same context) to take on a different meaning • That dog is pretty ugly. • Ms. Johnson is clearly misunderstood. • Mrs. Reeves loves to eat jumbo shrimp.

  18. Allusion Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. *The key is the person reading or listening has to know who the reference is* “Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.” – “Romeo” is a reference to Shakespeare’s Romeo, a passionate lover of Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet”.

  19. Allegory • Allegory is a lesson, figure of speech, or comparison using different characters and events to describe an idea. • Aesop’s Fables • What is the lesson in Little Red Riding Hood? • What is the COMPARISON in this picture?

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