figurative language
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Figurative Language
Metaphor- states a fact or draws a verbal picture by the
use of comparison.“Ann is a walking encyclopedia.”
MetaphorsDevin is a clown.
John’s head is a computer.Jealousy is a green eyed monster.
Imagery – when the author uses the 5 senses to describe
something.Sight Touch or feel
Smell Hear
Taste
Examples of Imagery
As Hurricane Sandy approaches the shoreline, people can feel the wind, taste the salt from the wild waves, and hear the surf pounding on the
ocean floor like a huge drum.
Onomatopoeia- words that sound like what they mean.
Ex: When the cars collided, all you could hear was “Pow” and “Bang”.
Onomatopoeia
Sizzle choo chooPop clank
Bubble clinkScreech sigh
Simile- uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object or idea with another Example: “as bright as the sun”
EXAMPLES OF SIMILES
As busy as a bee.As Dry as a bone.
As quiet as a mouse.As strong as an ox.
Moves Like a snail.Cry like a baby.Run like a deer.
I am hungry as a horse.
You run like a rabbit.
He is sneaky as a snake.
“I Love the Look of Words”Popcorn leaps, popping from the floor of a hot black skilletand into my mouth.Black words leap,snapping from the whitepage. Rushing into my eyes. Sliding into my brain which gobbles themthe way my tongue and teethchomp the buttered popcorn.
When I have stopped reading,ideas from the words stay stuckin my mind, like the sweetsmell of butter perfuming myfingers long after the popcornis finished.I love the book and the look of words the weight of ideas that popped into my mindI love the tracksof new thinking in my mind.
o Maya Angelou
Chug chug chug!!
Swish swish swish
Yeeeeee Ahhhhhhhh
Glippp Gluppp Gluppp
The flowers danced in the wind.
The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution.
The friendly gates welcomed us.
Hyperbole0An exaggerated statement used to
heighten effect. It is not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasize a point. Example: She’s said so on several
million occasions.
Idioms0An idiom or idiomatic expression refers to a
construction or expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language.
Example: "She has a bee in her bonnet," meaning "she is obsessed," cannot be literally translated into another language word for word.
Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday.
Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmy’s on Tuesday.
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