Figurative Language

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Figurative Language
Kitty Tripp Duncan Chapel Elementary March 28,
2003
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Figurative Language is

• Speech or written language
• Creates images in a listeners mind
• Describes something
• Uses unusual comparisons or
• Make things clearer
• Results ? the creation of interesting images.

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Types of Figurative Language

• Similes
• Metaphors

• Hyperboles
• Idioms

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Figurative Language in Everyday Use

• Letters
• Poetry
• Advertisement

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Helen Keller

• Letter to Alexander Graham Bell
• Poem, Autumn

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Helen Keller states in her letter

• I had a contest with a pirate, most redoubtable
  bronchitis. The attack was not severe and I soon
  got the upper hand.

--a hyperbole
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Helen Keller states in her poem, Autumn

• The little birds southward going
• Linger, like traveler at an inn.

--a simile
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President Abraham Lincoln

• His poem, My Childhood Home I See Again

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As President Lincoln remembers his past, he says
in his poem

• Oh memory! Thou mid-way world
• Twixt Earth and Paradise
• Where things decayed, and loved ones lost
• In dreamy shadows rise

--a metaphor
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Advertisement for Lexington Motor Company,
Connersville, Indiana
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• The motor car is the magic carpet of modern
  times.

--a metaphor
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• All these examples bring to life images that
  communicate the authors thoughts and feelings.

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Examples of Idioms

• Dont you be a couch potato
• Stop dragging your feet
• Jump into action
• EAGER BEAVERS, and
• lets learn some more about figurative
  language!

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Credits

• All pictures used with permission from
• Library of Congress
• Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and
  Special Collections Library--
• Advertising Ephemera Collection -
• Database A0160 Emergence of
  Advertising On-Line Project John W. Hartman
  Center for Sales, Advertising Marketing History
  http//scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/