Figurative Language Simile A comparison of two unlike

Figurative Language

Simile • A comparison of two unlike things using like or as • She is like a cow.

Metaphor • A comparison of two unlike things • She is a cow.

Pun • A play on words, lame joke, or words that have a double meaning. • She’s so punny.

Irony • Verbal: Sarcasm • “I love doing chores!” • Situational: Unexpected Outcome • Rain on your wedding day • Dramatic: When the audience knows something the characters don’t. • You know the bad guy is right around the corner.

Symbolism • When something represents something else • The conch in LOTF • The mockingbirds in TKAM

Allusion • Reference to something well-known

Personification • Giving an inanimate object human qualities • The dog laughed. • The waves whispered.

Puns • I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. • I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down.

Metaphor • I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings • The free bird leaps on the back of the win and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with fearful trill of the things unknown but longed for still and is tune is heard on the distant hillfor the caged bird sings of freedom The free bird thinks of another breeze an the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawnbright lawn and he names the sky his own. But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. • Maya Angelou

Personification • Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room. • "Ah, William, we're weary of weather, " said the sunflowers, shining with dew. "Our traveling habits have tired us. Can you give us a room with a view? " • They arranged themselves at the window and counted the steps of the sun, and they both took root in the carpet where the topaz tortoises run. William Blake (1757 -1827)

Personification • The Train • I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step • Around a pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a quarry pare • To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a start its own, Stop-docile and omnipotent. A stable door. • By Emily Dickinson

Allusion, Simile, Personification “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” LET us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question…. Oh, do not ask, “What is it? ” Let us go and make our visit. 5 10 In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, 15

Irony "Ironic" He packed his suitcase and kissed his An old man turned ninety-eight kids goodbye He won the lottery and died the next He waited his whole life to take that day flight It's a black fly in your Chardonnay And as the plane crashed down he It's a death row pardon two minutes thought too late "Well isn't this nice. . . " And isn't it ironic. . . don't you think It's like rain on your wedding day It's a free ride when you've already paid It's the good advice that you just didn't take Who would've thought. . . it figures Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly It's like rain on your wedding day It's a free ride when you've already paid It's the good advice that you just didn't take Who would've thought. . . it figures

Symbolism • The Road Not Taken • Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the • Robert Frost same,

Identify the type of figurative language used. Joyce Kilmer. 1886– 1918 119. Trees I THINK that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth's flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, 5 And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, 10

Answers • Personification • Simile • Allusion

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed. But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Answer • Metaphor

Love Is Not All Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone. It well may be that in a difficult hour, Pinned down by pain and moaning for release, Or nagged by want past resolution's power, I might be driven to sell your love for peace, Or trade the memory for food. It well may be. I do not think I would. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Answer • Irony • Personification

Lord of the Flies • But I tell you that smoke is more important than the pig, however often you kill one. • Smoke is ________?

Answer • A symbol of home

In Romeo and Juliet, When Mercutio begs Romeo to dance, Romeo refuses. Unlike Mercutio’s shoes with “nimble soles, ” Romeo says that he has a “soul of lead. ” At one point, Romeo asks for a torch, saying “being heavy [sad], I will bear the light. ” One of the cleverest and most morbid poems comes as a joke from a fatally-stabbed Mercutio, who stops joking to explain that “tomorrow … you shall find me a grave man. ”

Answer • Puns

Assignment • Find an example of each of the literary terms (pun, irony, simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism, allusion) in poetry. • Print off the poems, label the figurative language, and turn them in. • Due next time!