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Figurative Literal Language

• Notes

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Literal

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• Examples
• Grass looks green.
• ?  Sand feels rough.
• ?  The flower smells sweet.
• ?  Grasshoppers make a high-pitched noise.

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Figurative

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Examples ?  The grass looks like spiky green
hair. ?  Sand is solid water. ?  The flower has
the sweetest smelling petals in the world. ?
 Grasshoppers are fiddlers who play their legs.

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Types of Figurative Language
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Simile

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• Example The muscles on his brawny arms are as
  strong as iron.

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Important!

• Using like or as doesnt make a simile.
• A comparison must be made.
• _____________ I like pizza.
• _____________ The moon is like a pizza.

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Metaphor

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• Example The road was a ribbon wrapped through
  the dessert.

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Alliteration

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• Example She was wide-eyed and wondering while
  she waited for Walter to waken.

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Personification

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• Example The wind yelled.

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Hyperbole

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• Example Shes told me about her vacation several
  million times.

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Onomatopoeia

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• Example The firecracker went
• ka-boom!

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Idiom

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• Example He put his foot in his mouth!

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Pun

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• Examples

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Figurative Literal

• IMAGINARY
  REAL