Figurative Language

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Figurative Language

• Figuring it Out

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Figurative and Literal Language

• Literally words function exactly as defined
• The car is blue.
• He caught the football.
• Figuratively figure out what it means
• Ive got your back.
• Youre 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 doesnt 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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Metaphor

• Two things are compared without using like or
  as.
• Examples
• All the world is a stage.
• Men are dogs.
• She has a stone heart.

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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 from here.
• Shed kill me.

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Onomatopoeia

• The sound of the word takes on the actual meaning
  of the word.
• Example bang, hum, buzz, peep

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Treasure Hunt

• Match each of the following examples to a type of
  figurative language.
• Write the examples on the matching figurative
  language notes page in your foldable.

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• He drew a line as straight as an arrow.

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• Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are
  kings and queens.

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• Teresa is so hungry she could eat one hundred
  pizzas!

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• Knock-knock Who's there?BooBoo who?Don't cry,
  I was only joking

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• The flag waves like a fishhook in the sky.

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• Ravenous and savagefrom its longpolar
  journey,the North Windis searchingfor food

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• 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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• It went zip when it moved and bop when it
  stopped,
• And whirr when it stood still.
• I never knew just what it was and I guess I never
  will.

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• The phone yelled at Carmen to answer it.

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• I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,Welling and
  swelling I bear
• in the tide.Leaving behind nights of terror and
  fearI rise