Figurative Language Figuring it Out Figurative and Literal
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Figurative Language “Figuring it Out”
Figurative and Literal Language Literally: words function exactly as defined The car is blue. He caught the football. Figuratively: figure out what it means I’ve got your back. You’re a doll. ^Figures of Speech
TIP • Set up a TIP paper for the following terms. Be sure to number them as I have on the PPT. • Only worry about copying the terms that are numbered.
1. Simile • Comparison of two things using “like” or “as. ” Examples The metal twisted like a ribbon. She is as sweet as candy.
Important! Using “like” or “as” doesn’t make a simile. A comparison must be made. Not a Simile: I like pizza. Simile: The moon is like a pizza.
2. Metaphor • Two things are compared without using “like” or “as. ” Examples All the world is a stage. Men are dogs. Her heart is stone.
3. Personification • Giving human traits to objects or ideas. Examples The sunlight danced. Water on the lake shivers. The streets are calling me.
4. Hyperbole • Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect. Examples I will love you forever. My house is a million miles away. She’d kill me.
5. Onomatopoeia • A word that “makes” a sound SPLAT PING SLAM POP POW
6. Idiom • A saying that isn’t meant to be taken literally. Don’t be a stick in the mud! You’re the apple of my eye. I have an ace up my sleeve.
7. Pun • A form of “word play” in which words have a double meaning. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger and then it hit me. I’m reading a book about antigravity. It’s impossible to put it down. I was going to look for my missing watch, but I didn’t have the time.
Proverb • A figurative saying in which a bit of “wisdom” is given. • An apple a day keeps the doctor away • The early bird catches the worm
8. Oxymoron • When two words are put together that contradict each other. “Opposites” Jumbo Shrimp Pretty Ugly Freezer Burn
9. Allusion • An allusion is a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or something that happened. “I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s. ” “When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge, and refused to buy anything that wasn’t necessary. ”
10. Analogy • A similarity in some respect between things that are otherwise dissimilar. fish is to swimming as a bird is to flying
11. Literature Patterns • The plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story. – Rags to Riches – Two Rivals – The Great Quest – Growth and Learning
Quiz On a separate sheet of paper… 1. Pair up! 2. I will put an example of figurative language on the board. 3. You will write what figurative language term is being represented. 4. You can use your notes.
1 He drew a line as straight as an arrow.
2 Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are kings and queens.
3 Can I see you for a second?
4 The sun was beating down on me.
5 A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.
6 I'd rather take baths with a man-eating shark, or wrestle a lion alone in the dark, eat spinach and liver, pet ten porcupines, than tackle the homework, my teacher assigns.
7 Ravenous and savage from its long polar journey, the North Wind is searching for food—
8 Dinner is on the house.
9 Can I have one of your chips?
10 Don’t bit the hand that feeds you.
11. • The clouds smiled down at me.
12. • SPLAT!
13. • She is as sweet as candy
14. • I could sleep forever!
15. • He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends
16. • I used to have a fear of hurdles, but I got over it
17. • The wheat field was a sea of gold.
18. • The streets called to him.
19. • POP!
20. • She was dressed to the nines.
21. • The early bird catches the worm.
22. • Old news
23. • Your face is killing me!
24. • She was as white as a ghost.
25. • She has a skeleton in her closet.
26. • “Chocolate was her Achilles’ heel. ”
27. • sweets are to a diabetic, water is to fire
28. • Cinderella was treated horribly by her step mother but later married the prince. • Squeaky eventually realized that winning the race was not as important as coaching her brother, Raymond.
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