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Figurative Language

Figurative Language. What is Literal Language?. Literal: it means exactly what someone says. Example: If I ask you to walk in place, it means that is exactly what I want you to do. What is Figurative Language?. Figurative: it means to imply something else.

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Figurative Language

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  1. Figurative Language

  2. What is Literal Language? Literal: it means exactly what someone says. Example: If I ask you to walk in place, it means that is exactly what I want you to do.

  3. What is Figurative Language? • Figurative: it means to imply something else. • Example: “The teacher gave us a ton of homework.” It is not two thousand pounds of HW, it just means a lot of HW.

  4. Literal and Figurative • Literal (It is real) • “I’m getting very tired.” • I actually mean that I am becoming tired. • Figurative (Imaginary) • “Let’s go chillout together.” • Do I want us to go get cold? No, I want us to go spend some time together.

  5. Why Writers Use Figurative Language Also known as descriptive language, or poetic language, figurative languagehelps the writer paint a picture in the reader’s mind.

  6. onomatopoeia alliteration simile metaphor personification idiom hyperbole Seven Techniques of Figurative Language

  7. Onomatopoeia: Words that are sounds

  8. Alliteration: Repetition of the first consonant

  9. Simile: a way of describing something by comparing it with something else using "like" or "as"

  10. Metaphor: A way of describing something by comparing it to something else

  11. Personification to compare something that is not human as if it had human characteristics

  12. What is an idiom? • words, phrases, or expressions that are not interpreted logically or literally • unusual expressions that are either grammatically incorrect or have a meaning that cannot be comprehended through contextual clues

  13. Hyperbole • Is when one exaggerates.

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