Figurative Language

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Figurative Language

• English 10
• Poetry Unit

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Figurative Language

• Figurative language is language that is not meant
  to be understood literally. To understand
  figurative language, you must think about it!

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Metaphor

• A metaphor states that one thing is another thing
  and has a tenor, ground and vehicle.

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Simile

• A simile is a type of metaphor that compares two
  unlike things using like or as _________ as
  etcetera.

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Personification

• Personification is giving human characteristics
  to something that is not human.

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• Are the following expressions examples of
• Personification
• Simile
• Or
• Metaphor?

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The Alarm clock went off like a bomb!
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Simile
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The ants marched home.
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Personification
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Shes as mad as a hatter!
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Simile
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Sun went to bed!
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Personification
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The moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy
seas.
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Metaphor
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She was as quiet as a mouse.
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Simile
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The trees whispered to each other in the darkness.
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Personification
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The frogs tongue moved like lightening.
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Simile
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She ate the mountain of food greedily.
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Metaphor
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Oxymoron

• An oxymoron is a two word statement where the two
  words contradict each other.

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Paradox

• A paradox is a statement that seems to be
  impossible.

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Pun

• A pun is a deliberate confusion between two words
  or phrases that sound the same. Puns are usually
  meant to be jokes.

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• Are the following expressions
• examples of
• Oxymoron
• Paradox
• Or
• Pun?

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• The people we love the most often become those we
  hate the most.

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PARADOX
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• Giant Shrimp

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OXYMORON
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• Deep down he's really very shallow.

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Paradox
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• Police were called to a daycare where a
  three-year-old was resisting a rest.

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PUN
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• Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not
  to understand.
• Gracian

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PARADOX
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• Some children think that their parents are all
  no-ing.

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PUN
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• They have ears but hear not.

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PARADOX
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• Balding Hair

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OXYMORON
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• I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger.
  Then it hit me.

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PUN
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• Man must choose to be rich in things or in the
  freedom to use them.
• Ivan Illich

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PARADOX