2. Go Figure! Figurative Language

3. Recognizing Figurative Language The opposite of literal language is figurative language. Figurative language is language that means more than what it says on the surface. It usually gives us a feeling about its subject. Poets use figurative language almost as frequently as literal language. When you read poetry, you must be conscious of the difference. Otherwise, a poem may make no sense at all. Printed QuizOnline Quiz

4. Recognizing Literal Language “I’ve eaten so much I feel as if I could literally burst!” In this case, the person is not using the word literally in its true meaning. Literal means "exact" or "not exaggerated." By pretending that the statement is not exaggerated, the person stresses how much he has eaten. Literal language is language that means exactly what is said. Most of the time, we use literal language.

5. What is figurative language? Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using figurative language.

6. Types of Figurative Language Imagery Simile Metaphor Alliteration Personification Onomatopoeia Hyperbole

7. Note instructions For each term, complete a Frayer model

8. Imagery Descriptive Language that appeals to the senses. Sight Hearing Touch Taste Smell

9. Example The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains. It came by the pound and the ton, it hacked at the jungle and cut the trees like scissors and shaved the grass and tunneled the soil and molted the bushes. It shrank men's hands into the hands of wrinkled apes; it rained a solid glassy rain, and it never stopped.

10. Simile A figure of speech which involves a direct comparison between two unlike things, usually with the words like or as.

11. Examples they were huge dogs, and as fierce looking as wolves All that year the animals worked like slaves ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.

12. Metaphor A figure of speech which involves an implied comparison between two relatively unlike things. The comparison is not announced by like or as.

13. Examples Comrade Napoleon: Fountain of happiness! The meeting was conducted in the study where Morrie had become a prisoner of his chair. "With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world."

14. Alliteration Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words or within words.

15. Examples Like the sun in the sky, Comrade Napoleon! Nothing short of explosives would lay them low this time! Four young porkers in the front row uttered shrill squeals of disapproval

16. Personification A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea. Example: “The wind yells while blowing." The wind cannot yell. Only a living thing can yell.

17. Examples “The house jumped up in a gorging fire." "the machine fed in silence with an occasional sound of inner suffocation and blind searching“ "her dress was white and it whispered."

18. Onomatopoeia The use of words that mimic sounds. Example: The firecracker made a loud ka-boom!

19. Examples On my first morning on the farm, I was awoken suddenly by the cock-a-doodle-do of the resident rooster. I purchased my dream car online with a click of a mouse. I could hear their buzzing, so I knew there was a bee’s nest around here somewhere.

20. Hyperbole An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect. It is not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasize a point.

21. Examples The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white "I didn't do that. Never in a billion years" "Well this fire will last me the rest of my life."

22. Figurative Language Resources Alliteration or Simile? (Quiz) Alliteration or Simile? Similes and Metaphors (PPT) Similes and Metaphors The Search for Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms (PPT) The Search for Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms Alliteration (PPT) Alliteration Onomatopoeia (PPT) Onomatopoeia Personification (PPT) Personification Hyperbole (PPT) Hyperbole Simile (PPT) Simile

23. Teaching Similes and Metaphors Alliteration Lesson Plan and Resources http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/1allitera.htm http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/1allitera.htm Hyperbole- Lesson Plans and Resources http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/10lesson.htm http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/10lesson.htm Imagery- Lesson Plans and Resources http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/imagery2.htm http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/imagery2.htm Lesson Plan for Puns http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/5lesson.htm http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/5lesson.htm Onomatopoeia- Lesson Plans and Resources http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/9lesson.htm http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/9lesson.htm Personification Lesson Plans and Resources http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/7lesson.htm Proverbs- Lesson Plans and Resources http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/proverbs2.htm http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/proverbs2.htm