Figurative Language:

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Figurative Language
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Figurative Language

• -The use of language in a non-literal way
• -Literal exactly what is stated
• Hit the road
• -Non-literal the understood meaning
• Leave a situation

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Purpose of figurative language

• Writers use figurative language in poetry and
  prose to drive home a point or to paint a scene
  in the readers mind.
• Ex He began to gyrate his arms and legs like a
  stunned crab
• From The Follower by Jack Gantos, p. 79

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Types of figurative language

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole

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Simile

• A comparison of two unlike things using like or
  as
• The sound of the ocean was like a lion
  roaring.
• When my parents ask me about school, I feel like
  a bug sitting under a magnifying glass.
• The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all
  the cans in the grocery store.
• The teenagers gaze was as cold as ice.

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Metaphor

• A direct comparison of two things, without the
  use of like or as
• Simile The storekeeper was as stubborn as a
  mule.
• Metaphor The storekeeper was a stubborn mule.

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An extended example of metaphor

• Act II, Scene vii
• William Shakespeares As You Like It
• "All the world's a stage
• And all the men and women merely players
• They have their exits and their entrances,
• And one man in his time plays many parts,
• His acts being seven ages..."

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Personification

• a technique where non-human objects are given
  human characteristics
• -The ancient car groaned into third gear.
• -The tropical storm slept for two days.
• -The trees screamed in the raging wind.
• -The moon smiled on the couple in love.

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Complete these sentence starters using
personification

• The rain
• The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell to the
  ground.

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Create your own personification..

• The water
• The water beckoned invitingly to the hot
  swimmers.

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Create your own personification

• The snow
• The snow whispered as it fell to the ground
  during the early morning hours.

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Create your own personification

• The china
• The china danced on the shelves during the
  earthquake.

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Hyperbole

• Exaggeration for effect
• Ex. The line is a mile long!
• Im so hungry I could eat a
  horse!
• This book bag weighs a ton!
• I will die if she asks me to
• dance!

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Memoir Application

• You need to have at least three figures of speech
  in your final draft of your memoir.
• Look through your memoir and identify figures of
  speech youve already used OR find a place where
  you might add one.