Figurative Language Review FIGURATIVE Definition Figurative describes something
Figurative Language Review
FIGURATIVE • Definition: Figurative describes something that is not to be interpreted literally, but that instead uses a symbol or a likeness • Example: “She's the head of the company. ” • Can you think of any other ways to use head in a figurative way?
SIMILE • Definition: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like, than, or as • Example: “The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. ” • What could this mean? • Can you think of a simile for an angry person?
METAPHOR • Definition: a metaphor can be described as a comparison that shows how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in other important ways. • Example: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. ” • What could this mean? • Can you think of a metaphor for an angry person?
HYPERBOLE • Definition: Extreme exaggeration • Example: “Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. ” • What could this mean? • Can you think of a hyperbole for a really cold day?
PERSONIFICATION • Definition: giving human qualities to inanimate objects. • Example: “Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’—the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care…” • How is this personification? • Can you think of a way to personify a messy student’s locker?
ONOMATOPOEIA • Definition: Words that create an auditory effect similar to the sound they represent. • Example: “Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d. ” • Can you think of any other examples of onomatopoeia?
ALLITERATION • Definition: Repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others, or beginning several words with the same vowel sound • Example: “But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. ” • Can you think of any other examples of alliteration?
SYMBOL • Definition: A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level. • Example: Blood “Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!” • What could the blood on Lady Macbeth’s hand symbolize? • Can you think of any other symbols?
PARADOX • A seemingly contradictory statement that reveals an important truth • Example: “Fair is foul and foul is fair. ” • What could this mean?
OXYMORON • a combination of contradictory/opposing words • Example: “I know this is a joyful trouble to you. ” • Where is the oxymoron?
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