Figurative%20Language

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Figurative Language

• Candy for the Reader!

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Figurative Language

• Used to create fresh and original descriptions
• Not literally true
• Help readers picture ordinary things in new ways
• Candy for Readers!

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Types

• Alliteration
• Allusion
• Hyperbole
• Idioms

• Metaphors
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Similes

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Alliteration

• Repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or
  group of sounds in a series of words.
  Alliteration includes tongue twisters.

http//youtu.be/DGJu6LzUfYM
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Allusion

• Indirect reference to a well-known person,
  character, place, event, or literary work.
• He was a real Romeo with the ladies.

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Hyperboye

• I have a ton of homework

• Using exaggeration to
• express strong emotion
• make a point, or
• evoke humor

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Idioms

• Bad Hair Day

• Commonly used expressions that mean something
  different from the actual words.

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Metaphor

• A comparison using no connecting words
• An extended metaphor carries the comparison
  throughout an entire work or section of a work

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Examples of Metaphors

• Computers are the vehicles of tomorrow.
• All the worlds a stage.
• Tom was frozen with fear.
• What a bright idea!
• Love is blind.

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Onomatopoeia

• Use of words that imitate the sounds associated
  with the objects or actions they refer to

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Personification

• Giving human qualities to non-humans

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http//youtu.be/5EqG5v07R24
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Simile

• A comparison between seemingly unrelated things
  using connecting words such as
• Like
• As
• Than
• Seem

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Examples of Similes

• Life is like a box of chocolates
• She was as proud as a peacock
• I felt as dry as a bone
• as happy as the grass was green
• love is like a ghost

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Metaphor or Simile?

• http//youtu.be/zNFeAgUzpEQ

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Figurative Language...

• Is
• Candy
• for the Reader!

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The End.