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Figurative Language

Figurative Language. Metaphor - states a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison. “Ann is a walking encyclopedia.”. Metaphors. Devin is a clown. John’s head is a computer. Jealousy is a green eyed monster.

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Figurative Language

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  1. Figurative Language

  2. Metaphor- states a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison.“Ann is a walking encyclopedia.”

  3. Metaphors Devin is a clown. John’s head is a computer. Jealousy is a green eyed monster.

  4. Imagery – when the author uses the 5 senses to describe something.Sight Touch or feel Smell Hear Taste

  5. Examples of ImageryAs Hurricane Sandy approaches the shoreline, people can feel the wind, taste the salt from the wild waves, and hear the surf pounding on the ocean floor like a huge drum.

  6. Onomatopoeia- words that sound like what they mean.Ex: When the cars collided, all you could hear was “Pow” and “Bang”.

  7. Onomatopoeia Sizzle choochoo Pop clank Bubble clink Screech sigh

  8. Simile- uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object or idea with another Example: “as bright as the sun”

  9. EXAMPLES OF SIMILES As busy as a bee. As Dry as a bone. As quiet as a mouse. As strong as an ox. Moves Like a snail. Cry like a baby. Run like a deer.

  10. I am hungry as a horse. You run like a rabbit. He is sneaky as a snake.

  11. Metaphor: A way of describing something by comparing it to something else without using like or as.

  12. “I Love the Look of Words” Popcorn leaps, popping from the floor of a hot black skilletand into my mouth. Black words leap,snapping from the whitepage. Rushing into my eyes. Sliding into my brain which gobbles themthe way my tongue and teethchomp the buttered popcorn. When I have stopped reading,ideas from the words stay stuckin my mind, like the sweetsmell of butter perfuming myfingers long after the popcornis finished. I love the book and the look of words the weight of ideas that popped into my mindI love the tracksof new thinking in my mind. • Maya Angelou

  13. Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like what they mean.

  14. YeeeeeeAhhhhhhhh Swish swishswish Chug chugchug!! GlipppGlupppGluppp

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

  16. The flowers danced in the wind. The friendly gates welcomed us. The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution.

  17. Hyperbole • An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect. It is not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasize a point. Example: She’s said so on several million occasions.

  18. 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. Example: "She has a bee in her bonnet," meaning "she is obsessed," cannot be literally translated into another language word for word.

  19. Alliteration: Repetition of the first consonant

  20. Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday. Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmy’s on Tuesday.

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