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Figurative Language“Figuring it Out”
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Figurative and Literal Language
Literally: words function exactly as definedThe 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
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Simile
Comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”
Examples
The metal twisted like a ribbon.
She is as sweet as candy.
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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.
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MetaphorTwo things are compared without using
“like” or “as.”
Examples
All the world is a stage.
Her heart is stone.
Icicles are jagged swords dangling from the eaves.
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Personification
Giving human traits to objects or ideas.
Examples
The sunlight danced.
Water on the lake shivers.
The streets are calling me.
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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.
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Understatement
Expression with less strength than expected.The opposite of hyperbole.
I’ll be there in one second.
This won’t hurt a bit.
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Onomatopoeia
• A word that “makes” a sound• SPLAT• PING• SLAM• POP• POW
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Idiom• A saying that isn’t meant to be taken
literally. • Doesn’t “mean” what it says
EXAMPLES:Don’t be a stick in the mud!
You’re the apple of my eye.
I have an ace up my sleeve.
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PunA 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 anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put it down.
•I was going to look for my missing watch, but I didn’t have the time.
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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
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Oxymoron
• When two words are put together that contradict each other. “Opposites”
• Jumbo Shrimp• Pretty Ugly• Freezer Burn
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Quiz
On a separate sheet of paper…
1. I will put an example of figurative language on the board.
2. You will write whether it is an simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, pun, proverb, idiom, onomatopoeia, oxymoron or understatement.
3. You can use your notes.
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1
He drew a line as straight as an arrow.
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2
Can I see you for a second?
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3
The sun was beating down on me.
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4
I'd rather take bathswith a man-eating shark,or wrestle a lionalone in the dark,eat spinach and liver,pet ten porcupines,than tackle the homework,my teacher assigns.
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6
Dinner is on the house.
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5
Ravenous and savagefrom its longpolar journey,
the North Wind
is searchingfor food—
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5
A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.
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2
Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are kings and queens.
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10
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
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11.
• The clouds smiled down at me.
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12.
• SPLAT!
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13.
• She is as sweet as candy
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14.
• I could sleep forever!
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15.
• He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends
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17.
• The wheat field was a sea of gold.
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18.
• The streets called to him.
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19.
• POP!
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20.
• She was dressed to the nines.
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21.
• The early bird catches the worm.
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25.
• She has a skeleton in her closet.
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22.
• Old news
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23.
• Your face is killing me!
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24.
• She was as white as a ghost.
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16.
• I used to have a fear of hurdles, but I got over it
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9
Can I have one of your chips?