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Figurative Language

Figurative language is a vital tool authors use to paint vivid images in readers' minds. Learn about hyperbole, idiom, metaphor, simile, synecdoche, and personification to enhance your literary understanding.

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Figurative Language

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  1. Figurative Language

  2. Figurative Language A tool that an author uses to help readers visualize what is happening in the story.

  3. Figurative Language You can’t take it literally!

  4. Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Hyperbole: An exaggeration (That building can touch the clouds.)

  5. Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Idiom: An common expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in kick the bucket or under the weather.

  6. Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Metaphor: A comparison of two unlike things that suggests a similarity between the two items. (Love is a rose.)

  7. Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Simile: A comparison using "like" or "as” (She sings like an angel.)

  8. Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Synecdoche: a part stands for the whole. The “White House” stands for the U.S. government. A “hired hand” is more than a hand.

  9. Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Personification: imagining an inanimate object or animal acting, feeling, or thinking like a person

  10. Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Figurative comparison: shows how two things are alike or different, by saying they are as _____as a ____ (or) _____ than a _______ Such comparisons may use hyperbole.

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