Figurative Language

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Figurative Language

• Figurative language refers to the words and
  phrases poets and authors use
• To create special emphasis on something.
• To stir the imagination.
• To create word pictures that appeal to the senses.

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Figurative Language

• Hyperbole is exaggerated language!
• For example
• I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!
• He talks a mile a minute!

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Let's Practice... Figurative Language

• Write the phrases containing hyperbole or
  exaggeration in each of the following sentences.
• I said no a million times!
• Eliza brings enough lunch to feed twenty people.
• That fishing line is strong enough to catch a
  whale.

• Read each topic. Think how can you exaggerate
  it? Write a hyperbole for each topic.
• The depth of the ocean.
• The loudness of my friend's voice.
• The smallness of a baby.

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Figurative Language

• A simile shows how things are similar to each
  other by using words such as like or as.
• For example
• I used to wrap my dreams around me like a
  blanket.

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Let's Practice... Figurative Language

• Read the similes listed below. Write down what is
  being compared in each simile.
• Swinging their arms like windmills, the brothers
  ran down the sidewalk.
• Bruno ate like a starving gorilla.
• Lionel was as grumpy as a bear coming out of
  hibernation.
• With eyes as bright as stars, Rosalinda thanked
  me for the gift.

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Figurative Language

• A metaphor is a type of figurative language
  that compares one thing to another by stating
  that one thing is the other. It does not use like
  or as.
• For example
• John's imagination is a spaceship soaring to
  the stars.

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Let's Practice... Figurative Language

• Read the metaphors listed below. Write down what
  is being compared in each metaphor.
• A book is a storehouse of knowledge.
• Her sunglasses were a shield against the world.
• The pot of chili was a volcano on the stove.
• Brian is a steamroller once he makes up his mind.

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Figurative Language

• Personification gives an animal or object the
  characteristics or abilities of a person.
• For example
• The flowers welcomed spring with open arms.

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Let's Practice... Figurative Language

• Describe the personification in the pictures
  below!