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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE OR TWO THINGS AT ONCE

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE OR TWO THINGS AT ONCE. LITERAL language is true to fact. . If you are speaking literally you mean exactly what you say. Example: “My head hurts.” Example: “My dog begs for scraps when I cook in the kitchen.” .

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE OR TWO THINGS AT ONCE

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  1. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE OR TWO THINGS AT ONCE

  2. LITERAL language is true to fact. • If you are speaking literally you mean exactly what you say. Example: “My head hurts.” Example: “My dog begs for scraps when I cook in the kitchen.”

  3. FIGURATIVE language makes comparisons between unrelated things or ideas, in order to show something about a subject. • Example: “My head is about to explode.” (What is being compared here?) • Example: “In the kitchen, when I cook, my dog is a tap dancer.”

  4. THREE KINDS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE (YOU MUST KNOW THESE!!)

  5. METAPHOR • The writer transfers qualities of one thing onto another. A metaphor has two parts. A=B : something is something else. The B part, the something else, shows how the poet feels or perceives the A part. Examples: “Science class was a rowdy carnival.” “His eyes were blue diamonds, shimmering in the moonlight.”

  6. SIMILE • Uses like or as to compare two things. A is like B. Examples: “Science class was like a day at the beach.” “Her eyes were as dark as midnight.”

  7. PERSONIFICATION • Gives human or physical qualities to an object, animal, or idea. • Examples: “My social studies book glared at me from across the room.” “The tree stood quietly, carefully watching everyone who passed below.”

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