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Figurative Language

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

4. Imagery • Sight • Hearing • Touch • Taste • Smell
Language in which descriptions of people or objects appeals to the senses.
• Sight
• Hearing
• Touch
• Taste
• Smell

5. Idioms
An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings
The coach and players threw in the towel.

6. WHAT DO THESE IDIOMS MEAN?
YOU ARE A HOT POTATO.
A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS.
COSTS AN ARM AND A LEG.
THE BALL IS IN YOUR COURT.

7. Simile
Comparison using like or as
My mom was as blind as a bat

8. Hyperbole An exaggeration
My dad had a heart attack when he saw my grade.

9. COMMON HYPERBOLE: I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
I had a ton of chores to do.
If I can’t get a Smartphone, I will die.
She is as thin as a toothpick.
This car goes faster than the speed of light.
Our new house cost a bazillion dollars.

10. Alliteration Betty Blake bought big butter.
Two or more words of a word group with the same sound at the beginning of the word
Betty Blake bought big butter.

11. Metaphor
Comparison NOT using like or as; indicator words – am, is, are, was, & were
She is sunshine, brightening our day

12. Personification
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects and other living things
The printer ate my paper

13. Oxymoron Contradictory terms are used in conjunction (together)
Inside out; cold sweat; alone in the crowd

14. FOR EXAMPLE Great Depression Jumbo shrimp Cruel to be kind
Pain for pleasure
Clearly confused
Act naturally
Beautifully painful
Painfully beautiful
Deafening silence
Pretty ugly

15. Onomatopoeia
The formation of a word, intended as an imitation of a sound
Bang! Zip! Meow!

16. He whiffed the aroma of brewed coffee.
EXAMPLES
BUZZ!
The wind whispered through dry grass.
The dress was pretty ugly!
Her dance is a great poem.
Good golly Miss Molly!!
That was a piece of cake!
She is as beautiful as the rising sun.
I am trying to solve a million issues these days.
He whiffed the aroma of brewed coffee.

17. He whiffed the aroma of brewed coffee.
EXAMPLES
BUZZ!
ONOMATOPOIA
The wind whispered through dry grass.
PERSONIFICATION
The dress was pretty ugly!
OXYMORON
Good golly Miss Molly!!
ALLITERATION
Her dance is a great poem.
METAPHOR
That was a piece of cake!
IDIOM
I am trying to solve a million issues these days.
HYPERBOLE
She is as beautiful as the rising sun.
SIMILE
He whiffed the aroma of brewed coffee.
IMAGERY