Figure of Speech

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Slang, Idioms, and Figures of Speech

• Symphony in Slang

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Slang

• Vocabulary, words and expressions you use to talk
  to your friends.
• You dont usually speak to adults in the same
  way.
• Slang changes depending on the age of the speaker.

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Figures of Speech

• Using words or phrases to create images.
• The actual meaning of the word is not intended in
  the expression.
• This creates a mental image of one thing while
  understanding another.

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Changes in Idioms

• Because figures of speech and idioms are used by
  certain ages, they change over time.
• What you use as a teenager, adults or those
  younger than you probably wont.

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More Changes in Idioms

• Because every age group has its own set of
  idioms, other groups may not understand each
  other when speaking with too many idioms.
• Some are no longer used or have been changed in
  wordage but not in meaning.

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Literal Meanings

• To understand or use the literal meaning of an
  expression is to take the actual meaning of the
  words as what is meant by the speaker.
• This can be a problem because the true intent of
  the words is not what the speaker wants the
  listener to understand.
• This causes many problems to people who are
  learning a new language since they are not
  applying the shades of meaning to words.

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Noah Webster

• He was the first person to create what we know as
  the dictionary.
• He put together the words used in English along
  with their origins and various uses.
• Today there is a book known as Websters
  Dictionary.

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As You Watch the Cartoon

• First watch it just to enjoy it.
• Then watch it and listen for expressions you may
  have heard before.
• Next, think about the ones you havent heard
  before and watch the examples in the cartoon.
• Finally, think about what expressions you use now
  that mean the same thing.

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What Do These Mean?

• Born with a silver spoon in the mouth
• To be born lucky or rich
• Get up/wake up at the crack of dawn
• Get up/wake up as the sun is rising
• Be short-handed
• To not have enough help/workers

• Grow up over night
• Seem to grow up fast
• Sling the hash
• To be a cook or to cook
• Cant cut the mustard
• Not capable or knowledgable to do the job

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What Do These Mean?

• Give the gate
• To fire from a job
• A hole in the wall
• A small, worthless looking place
• Besides myself in anger (or other emotion)
• An extreme feeling

• Fly to
• Take an airplane to a place
• Paint the town red
• Enjoy yourself/have a good time
• Come into the picture
• Meet someone or something becomes important

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• Get up with the chickens
• To get up very early
• Make some dough
• To earn money
• Punching cattle
• Marking and herding cattle
• Eyes meet
• To get someones attention

• Pair of good-looking pins
• Nice legs
• Breath in short pants
• To take quick, short breathes. Have trouble
  breathing
• Get goose pimples(bumps)
• When the skin gets bumpy from cold or excitement.

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Initial Directions for New Assignment

• Think about what an idiom is and why we speak in
  figures of speech.
• Today, there are expressions that you use that
  were not used 10 or more years ago.
• Think about how you speak to your friends or what
  you have heard others say.
• Your new assignment will be

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• On a sheet of construction paper you will
• Write idioms, figures of speech or expressions
  you use with your friends. Keep it appropriate
  to school.
• For example, you may say
  Thats tight. to express the idea that
  something is great. Or, Hes just a poser.
  to mean that someone is a fake.
• Next, you will illustrate the picture using the
  LITERAL meaning of the words.

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• 4. Finally, you will need to write the
  explanation for the expression. What do you
  really mean when you say that.

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