1. Figurative & Literal Language
Notes

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Literal
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Examples:
Grass looks green.
  Sand feels rough.
  The flower smells sweet.
  Grasshoppers make a high-pitched noise.

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Figurative
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Examples:
  The grass looks like spiky green hair.
  Sand is solid water.
  The flower has the sweetest smelling petals in the world.
  Grasshoppers are fiddlers who play their legs.

4. Types of Figurative Language

5. Simile
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Example: The muscles on his brawny arms are as strong as iron.

6. Important!
Using “like” or “as” doesn‘t make a simile. A comparison must be made. _____________: I like pizza. _____________: The moon is like a pizza.

7. Metaphor
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Example: The road was a ribbon wrapped through the dessert.

8. Alliteration
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Example: She was wide-eyed and wondering while she waited for Walter to waken.

9. Personification
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Example: “The wind yelled.”

10. Hyperbole
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Example: She’s told me about her vacation several million times.

11. Example: The firecracker went
Onomatopoeia
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Example: The firecracker went
ka-boom!

12. Idiom
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Example: He put his foot in his mouth!

13. Pun
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Examples …

14. Figurative & Literal
IMAGINARY REAL