Figurative Language

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simile
assonance
Figurative Language
personification
Hyperbole
Idioms
metaphor
Alliteration
Imagery
onomatopoeia
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Recognizing Literal Language

• Ive eaten so much I feel as if I could
  literally burst!
• In this case, the person is not using the word
  literally in its true meaning. Literal means
  "exact" or "not exaggerated." By pretending that
  the statement is not exaggerated, the person
  stresses how much he has eaten.
• Literal language is language that means exactly
  what is said.
• Most of the time, we use
• literal language.

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What is figurative language?
Whenever you describe something by comparing it
with something else, you are using figurative
language.
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Simile a way of describing something by
comparing it with something else using "like"
or "as"
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Literature Example How public like a Frog -
I am hungry as a horse.
You run like a rabbit.
She is happy as a clam.
He is sneaky as a snake.
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Metaphor
A way of describing something by comparing it
to something else (not using like or as)
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Literature Example My voice having tones of
thunder
The girl was a fish in the water.
The clown was a feather floating away.
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Irony

• Is a contrast between
• what is said and
• what is actually meant or written

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• You stay up all night studying for a test.
• When you go to class, you discover
• the test is not until the next day.

Examples
Have you ever seen a horror movie that has a
killer on the loose? You, and the rest of the
audience, know that the teenagers should not go
walking in the woods late at night, but they
think a midnight stroll would be romantic.
Needless to say, the teens become the next
victims.
A traffic jam when you're already late
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Symbolism

• When a person, place, thing, or event that has
  meaning in itself also represents, or stands for,
  something else.

innocence
peace
America
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Dialect

• is a variety of languages that people speak
  from a particular region or group.
• Sometimes in stories authors use dialects to make
  a character stand out.

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Examples

• "Dem Dere" in Brooklyn
• Yah" in Minnesota
• "Gag me with a spoon" in So. Calif.
• South "Y'all"
• North
  "You guys"

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Analogy

• Analogy is a likeness or
• similarity between things that
• are otherwise unlike

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Examples

• Song is to sing as clock is to time
• Book is to read as poem is to rhyme
• Snow is to flake as water is to ice
• Hate is to love as mean is to nice

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Hyperbole

• An exaggerated statement used with great
  exaggeration. Used to emphasis a point.
• Shes said so on several million occasions.

That ice cream cone was a mile high
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Personification to compare something that is not
human as if it had human characteristics
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The flowers danced in the wind.
The friendly gates welcomed us.
The Earth coughed and choked in all of the
pollution.
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Alliteration Repetition of the first consonant
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Alliteration

• Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the
  beginning of words or within words.
• Example She was wide-eyed and wondering while
  she waited for Walter to waken.

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Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on
Saturday.
Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmys on
Tuesday.

• If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
  how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

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Allusion

• Is a reference
• to a famous person,
• place, event, or work of literature

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• Christy did not like to spend money, but she was
  no Scrooge.
• I am afraid of spiders but I am no Cowardly Lion.
  
• The students at EIS
• were acting like Greek Warriors

Allusion Examples
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Repetition

• Is the use of sounds, words, phrases, or whole
  line used more than once.

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Repetition Examples

• Rain
• The rain is falling all aroundIt falls on
  field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas
  here,And on the ships at sea.

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse opened
sleigh Hey. Jingle Bells
Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,Humpty
Dumpty had a great fallAll the King's horses
and all the King's menCouldn't put Humpty
together again
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Assonance The repetition of internal vowel
sounds. Doesn't have to rhyme!!
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Princess Kitty will kiss Timmy T. Tipperss lips
The pain may drain Drake, but maybe the weight
is fake.
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Onomatopoeia

• the use of words that mimic sounds.

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The firecracker made a loud ka-boom!
Yeeeeee Ahhhhhhhh
Swish swish swish
Glippp Gluppp Gluppp
Chug chug chug!!
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Imagery
Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions
of people or objects stated in terms of our
senses.
Sight Hearing Touch Taste Smell
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Idioms
An idiom or idiomatic expression refers to a
construction or expression in one language that
cannot be matched or directly translated
word-for-word in another language.
Example "She has a bee in her bonnet," meaning
"she is obsessed," cannot be literally translated
into another language word for word.