Figurative Language

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Figurative Language

• Figuring it Out

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Figurative and Literal Language

• Literally words function exactly as defined
• The car is blue.
• He caught the football.
• Figuratively figure out what it means
• Ive got your back.
• Youre a doll.
• Figures of Speech

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Simile

• Comparison of two things using like or as.
• Examples
• The metal twisted like a ribbon.
• She is as sweet as candy.

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Important!

• Using like or as doesnt make a simile.
• A comparison must be made.
• Not a Simile I like pizza.
• Simile The moon is like a pizza.

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Metaphor

• Two things are compared without using like or
  as.
• Examples
• All the world is a stage.
• Men are dogs.
• She has a stone heart.

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Personification

• Giving human traits to objects or ideas.
• Examples
• The sunlight danced.
• Water on the lake shivers.
• The streets are calling me.

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Hyperbole

• Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect.
• Examples
• I will love you forever.
• My house is a million miles from here.
• Shed kill me.

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Idiom

• The language particular to a group of people.
• The sweater costs an arm and a leg.
• Jack had lost his marbles.

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Cliche

• A word or phrase that has become overly familiar
  or commonplace.
• Fall head over heels
• Reading between the lines

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Quiz

• On a separate sheet of paper
• I will put an example of figurative language on
  the board.
• You will write whether it is an simile, metaphor,
  personification, hyperbole, idiom, or cliche.
• You can use your notes.

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• He drew a line as straight as an arrow.

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• Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are
  kings and queens.

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• The sun was beating down on me.

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• A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.

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• I'd rather take bathswith a man-eating
  shark,or wrestle a lionalone in the dark,eat
  spinach and liver,pet ten porcupines,than
  tackle the homework,my teacher assigns.

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• Ravenous and savagefrom its longpolar
  journey,the North Windis searchingfor food

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• I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,Welling and
  swelling I bear
• in the tide.Leaving behind nights of terror and
  fearI rise

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Answers

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification
4. Simile
5. Hyperbole
6. Personification
7. Metaphor

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Alliteration

• repetition of a particular sound in a series of
  words or phrases
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
• Sally sold seashells by the seashore

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Assonance

• A resemblance of sound in words or syllables
• And in the air the firefliesOur only light in
  paradiseWe'll show the world they were wrongAnd
  teach them all to sing along

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Onomatopoeia

• Naming a thing or action by imitating the sound
  associated with it
• Pow!!
• Boom!!