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Figurative Language. Figurative Language. A tool that an author uses to help readers visualize what is happening in the story. Figurative Language. You can’t take it literally!. Some Types of Figurative Language include. Hyperbole: An exaggeration (That building can touch the clouds.).
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Figurative Language A tool that an author uses to help readers visualize what is happening in the story.
Figurative Language You can’t take it literally!
Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Hyperbole: An exaggeration (That building can touch the clouds.)
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.
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.)
Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Simile: A comparison using "like" or "as” (She sings like an angel.)
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.
Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Personification: imagining an inanimate object or animal acting, feeling, or thinking like a person
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.