Figurative Language Anchor Text Fahrenheit 451 RL 12
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Figurative Language Anchor Text: Fahrenheit 451 RL. 12. 4 I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text including figurative language.
Literal versus Figurative Literal Figurative • Words functions exactly as they are stated • The meaning of words is often concealed, requires inference • The dog is brown. • I got your back. • The house is brick. • He was fast as lightning.
Simile • A simile is the comparison of two things using “like” or “as” • He ran as fast as lightning. • She swims like a fish.
Metaphor • A Metaphor is the comparison of two things without using “like” or “as” • All the world is a stage. • Time is money. • He is a night owl.
Personification • Giving human characteristics/traits to objects or ideas • The ocean waves slapped the shore. • The sunlight danced across the field.
Hyperbole • A hyperbole is an exaggeration to show strong feeling • I live a million miles away. • You are slower than a snail. • I will love you forever.
Understatement • An understatement is an under-exaggeration, almost sarcastic (opposite of hyperbole) • I’ll be there in a second • It has been a little rainy. (It’s actually been really rainy. )
Let’s Practice!
Simile “The bombers crossed the sky and crossed the sky over the house gasping, murmuring, whistling like an immense, invisible fan, circling in emptiness. ”
Personification “Titles glittered their golden eyes, falling, gone. ”
Metaphor “Her face was slender and milk-white”
Personification “The bell in the ceiling kicked itself two hundred times. ”
Hyperbole “He felt his chest chopped down and split apart. ”
Simile “She was beginning to shriek now, sitting there like a wax doll melting in its own heat. ”
Metaphor “’Kerosene, ’ he said, because the silence had lengthened, ‘is nothing but perfume to me. ”’
Metaphor “Each page becomes a black butterfly. Beautiful, eh? Light the third page from the second and so on, chain smoking, chapter by chapter…There sat Beatty, perspiring gently, the floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm. ”
Personification “And his eyes were beginning to feel hunger, as if they must look at something, anything, everything. ”
Simile or Personification “He stared at the parlor that was dead and gray as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electronic sun. ”
- Kerosene definition fahrenheit 451
- Making connections
- Fahrenheit 451 setting quotes
- Allegory of the cave and fahrenheit 451
- Fire clown
- Symbols in fahrenheit 451
- Fahrenheit 451 study guide questions
- Fahrenheit 451 pre reading activities
- Ethos in fahrenheit 451
- Fahrenheit 451 literary analysis
- Fahrenheit 451 journal prompts
- Ignorance is bliss in fahrenheit 451
- Fahrenheit 451 genres
- Themes from fahrenheit 451
- Technology in fahrenheit 451
- Theme vs topic
- What symbolic number is engraved on montag's helmet?
- The gibbering pack of three apes
- Description of mechanical hound in fahrenheit 451