figurative language
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Figurative Language. Definition. Also called Figures of Speech, writing or speech meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally. They include metaphors, similes, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, idioms, analogies, imagery, alliteration, assonance, and symbolism. Metaphors. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Figurative Language
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Definition
Also called Figures of Speech, writing or speech meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally. They include metaphors, similes, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, idioms, analogies, imagery, alliteration, assonance, and symbolism.
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Metaphors
● A direct comparison between two dissimilar items
● One thing is spoken or written about as if it were another
● Formula: The (first subject) is a (second subject).
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Romeo
Juliet
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Juliet is the Sun!!!
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This is SO
not worth it!
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Simile● An indirect comparison between two
dissimilar items● Uses the words: like, as, than, appears, and
seems.● A comparison using like or as● Formula: (Subject A) is like (Subject B)
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“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.”
- Forest GumpAs good as gold.
- Charles DickensShe walks in
beauty like the night
- Lord Byron
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Juliet Metaphor
Like/As
Simile
Difference Between Metaphor and Simile
Direct
Indirect
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Hyperbole● A boldly exaggerated statement
that adds emphasis without intended to be literally true
● An exaggeration made for effect
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Your hiding something cuz it's burning through your eyes.
- New Found Glory An hundred years should go to praise thine eyes and on they forehead gaze
- Andrew Marvell
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Onomatopoeia● The use of words or phrases that sound
like what they name● Can also refer to an entire line of text
where the sounds of the words are used to convey the meaning of the text
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My stick fingers click with a snicker and chuckling, they knuckle the keys.
- John Updike
Oh
CRASH!
my
BASH!
it's
BANG!
the
ZANG!
Fourth
WHOOSH!
of
BAROOM!
July
WHEW!
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Personification● Human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things
● Something not human is described as if it were human
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Dylan Thomas
Quoth the Raven,
“Nevermore!”
- Edgar Allen Poe
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Idioms● An expression whose
meaning cannot be determined by the literal meanings of the words, but has a figurative meaning based on conventional use
● Very similar to a slang term
Wild Goose Chase
Threw him a curve ball
I'll cross that bridge when I come to it
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Analogies● An analogy is a
comparison of things that are alike in some ways but different in others
● Formally seen as: “Shoes are to feet as tires are to cars.”
● Formula: A:B::C:D
A country boy in the city acts like a small fish in a big pond in that they're both completely unprepared, and both have a lot of adapting to do.
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Alliteration● the same sound
appears at the beginning of two or more consecutive words
● Commonly seen in Tongue Twisters
● Kit Carson County Community College
● Descending Dewdrops
● Keen Car
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Assonance● Repetition of the
same vowel sound in nearby words
● Most commonly found within the word, not at the beginning
The black cat whacked the rat with a bat.
Hear the mellow wedding bells
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Imagery● Language that
creates a concrete representation of an object or experience
● Anything that addresses the senses, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, or actions
● Sizzling bacon● Scent of fresh
flowers● Feel of sand
beneath your feet● Dark clouds
looming on the horizon
● Bitter taste of saltwater
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Symbolism● Something that
stands for or represents itself and something else
● Something that evokes a range of meaning beyond its literal meaning
Tyger, tyger burning bright in the forests of the night, what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry
- William Blake
The Tyger stands as an actual tiger but also all other things considered evil
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Your Assignment● Using your poetry booklet, you are to find 5
examples of each type of Figurative Language which the following exceptions: Alliteration, Assonance, Analogies
● Along with identifying it, pick one example and explain how it meets the definition of the Figure of Speech on your Graphic Organizer
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She is sly like a fox
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Clank
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It feels like I hit a brick wall!
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The mountain held the town
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The sea will be his watery grave
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He ate everythingat the house
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Squeeze the silent, startled snake in
September
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The jingling bells
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All the worldis a stage
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Dead as a doornail
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Kicked the bucket
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I could eata horse
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The pen ranacross the paper
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The big bee buzzed behind the bonnet
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Flash in the pan
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His voice is the roarof a lion
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The pig sighedin disbelief
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He threw ita thousand
miles per hour
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As big as the sky
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Boom
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The clouds cried
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Hanging by a moment
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Spun like a top
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Always arrestangry alligators
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War rages on likea forest fire
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The windwhispered a
secret
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She appearedlike an angel from
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