Figurative Language Book

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• Directions
• Write your name on the front
• Find the definition for each word, write it on
  your figurative language booklet, and memorize
  it.
• Once you find the definition and know what they
  mean understand this An author uses figurative
  language to make reading more interesting and
  colorful.
• On each page you must have MY EXAMPLE and create
  your OWN EXAMPLES. The number to the right of the
  word is how many of your own examples you need.

Figurative Language Book What is Figurative
Language?
Alliteration - 4 Allusion 1 Oxymoron
4 Onomatopoeia 4 Metaphor 3 Irony (verbal,
situational, dramatic) 1 of each Imagery 1
paragraph Hyperbole 3 Foreshadowing
1 Personification 3 Symbol 3 Simile
-3 Cliché - 3 Idiom - 3 Satire - 1 Assonance - 3
Name Due Date Reading Period
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Allusion
Allusion is a brief reference to a person, event,
or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of
art. Casual reference to a famous historical or
literary figure or event.An allusion may be
drawn from history, geography, literature, or
religion.
Oxymoron is putting two contradictory words
together.
We met as soul mates On Parris Island We left as
inmates From an asylum And we were sharp As sharp
as knives And we were so gung ho To lay down our
lives We came in spastic Like tameless horses We
left in plastic As numbered corpses And we
learned fast To travel light Our arms were
heavy But our bellies were tight
Jumbo shrimp Legally drunk
Oxymoron
Lyrics from Goodnight Saigon by Billy Joel
talking about the Vietnam War.
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Her hair is the color of midnight.
POW
Metaphor is comparison of two unlike things
using the verb "to be.
metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it
represents.
BANG
WHAM
His teeth are rotten black olives.
CRACK
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Situational
To Build a Fire By Jack London
Irony
Irony is an implied discrepancy between what is
said and what is meant.Three kinds of irony
irony of situation is a discrepancy between the
expected result and actual results.
That was why he had shied in such panic. He had
felt the give under his feet and heard the
crackle of a snow-hidden ice-skin. And to get his
feet wet in such a temperature meant trouble and
danger. At the very least it meant delay, for he
would be forced to stop and build a fire, and
under its protection to bare his feet while he
dried his socks and moccasins. He stood and
studied the creek-bed and its banks, and decided
that the flow of water came from the right. He
reflected awhile, rubbing his nose and cheeks,
then skirted to the left, stepping gingerly and
testing the footing for each step. Once clear of
the danger, he took a fresh chew of tobacco and
swung along at his four-mile gait. In the course
of the next two hours he came upon several
similar traps. Usually the snow above the hidden
pools had a sunken, candied appearance that
advertised the danger. Once again, however, he
had a close call and once, suspecting danger, he
compelled the dog to go on in front.
Put together a doll house to watch it fall apart.
Dramatic
2. dramatic irony is when an audience perceives
something that a character in the literature does
not know.
Kick Me Sign
Verbal (sarcasm)
It is raining outside, and someone says, What
great weather we have!
Imagery is language that evokes one or all of the
five senses seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling,
touching.
1. verbal irony is when an author says one thing
and means something else.
Imagery
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Foreshadowing
My grandpa and I went fishing this one time, and
I caught a five hundred foot fish!
Foreshadowing When an author uses clues in the
text to indicate or suggest something, usually
something unpleasant, that is going to happen
Hyperbole
Sam wished he could rid himself of the sick
feeling in his gut that told him something
terrible was going to happen, and happen soon.
I am so hungry, I could eat a horse!
Hyperbole is exaggeration or overstatement.
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A smiling moon
Symbol
Personification
Personification is giving human qualities to
animals or objects.
Symbol is using an object or action that means
something more than its literal meaning. The
practice of representing things by means of
symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or
significance to objects, events, or
relationships.
A jovial Sun
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Finders keepers, losers weepers
Her voice is like a siren.
a phrase or word that has lost its original
effectiveness or power from overuse so overused
there is no meaning.
He is as dumb as a brick.
The toilet paper is as fluffy as a cloud.
Simile
Simile is the comparison of two unlike things
using like or as.
Cliche
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Assonance the similarity of two or more vowel
sounds or the repetition of two or more consonant
sounds, especially in words that are close
together in a poem.
An Idiom is a fixed, distinctive, and often
colorful expression whose meaning cannot be
understood from the combined meanings of its
individual words.
Assonance
It seethesIt breathsleaving scattered
leavesbreezing, blazingWhispering to
treesBubbles that dance with fiery gleeleave
the airshimmerythe color of wheatOf hot melted
goldUnder the seabright and boldLovely,
lively, dancingflamesliquidly flowas we
craneOur necks to see, how glorious to
beSilently watching avolcano
The early bird catches the worm
Idiom
Birds of a feather flock together
Kill two birds with one stone
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Sally sells seashells by the seashore. The weird
Watsons went to Wyoming. Happy Harry hopes
to hop to Home Depot. Peter Piper picked a peck
of pickled peppers.
Satire
Alliteration
satire a literary tone used to ridicule or make
fun of human weakness, often with the intent of
correcting, or changing, the subject of the
satiric attack.
Alliteration is the repetition of initial
consonant sounds in neighboring words.