Literal vs. Figurative Language

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Literal vs. Figurative Language

• Whats the difference?

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Literal Means

• Straight forward
• Factual
• Meaning exactly what is said

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Figurative Means

• Imaginative
• Uses exaggerations to make a point
• Figurative meanings encourage us to use our
  imagination. It is not literal.

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What does this really mean?

• Its raining cats and dogs

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What does this really mean?

• Break a leg

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Literal or Figurative?You decide!

• Jacob expresses many feelings through his
  photography.

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Literal or Figurative? You decide!

• Sometimes I have to be my little brothers brain.

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• Forensic pathologists-Performs autopsies/postmorte
  m examinations to determine the cause of death.
• Forensic entomologists- Involved in the branch of
  entomology that involves insects and violent
  crime or the law
• Mark and trace analysis experts- Study examples
  of typical evidence in criminal cases include
  fingerprints, glove prints, hairs, cosmetics,
  plant fibers, mineral fibers, synthetic fibers,
  glass, paint chips, soils, botanical materials,
  gunshot residue, explosives residue, and volatile
  hydrocarbons (arson evidence).
• Document experts-Analyzes documents for
  alterations, handwriting comparisons
• Fiber analysis specialists- Locates textile
  fibers similar to those from the victims
  clothing or the crime scene on the clothing or
  person of the suspect or discovering fiber
  evidence at the crime scene that can somehow be
  traced back to the suspect.
• Medical examiner-medically qualified government
  officer whose duty is to investigate deaths and
  injuries that occur under unusual or suspicious
  circumstances and to perform post-mortem
  examinations.

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Explanation of literal meaning

• In cases where decedents cannot be identified
  based on their biological profile or dental
  records, forensic anthropologists/artists may do
  facial reconstruction to create a face of
  decedents so that people might recognize them.

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Example evidence to support literal meaning

• In the case of Mwivano, whose face had been cut
  off, a forensic anthropologist and artist used
  her skull to reconstruct a model of her face.
  Literally, they put a face to the lost by
  recreating it.

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Figurative meaning

• Matching unidentified remains with the names of
  missing persons is a way forensic anthropologists
  solve identification or missing persons
  investigations.

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Example Evidence of Figurative Meaning

• Forensic investigators discover a decedents
  identitiy through bones, dental work, and x-rays.
  They math characteristics from bones, dental
  work, x-rays, and other means with lists of
  missing persons to find a match, to give a lost
  person an IDENTITY/NAME. Through this process,
  they are able to connect remains to a missing
  person thus giving a name (figurative face) to a
  missing person.

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Literal

• Literally, they reconstruct a face
• Young
• Female
• African American

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Figurative

• Figuratively, they give her a face or a
  name/identity/story with the help of x-rays,
  dental records, bones, medical records, etc.
• Name Mwivano Mwambashi Kupaza
• Student from Tanzania
• In a strange country with few acquaintances

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Literal Meaning of Giving Faces to the lost

• Go to the section in the reading that LITERALLY
  talks about how they reconstruct the face.
• Use textual evidence
• Hint Facial Reconstruction

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Figurative Meaning of Giving Faces to the lost

• Go to the sections in the reading that discuss
  how the forensic anthropologists find out the
  face or identity of the lost person. Use
  textual evidence.
• Hint Matching a Decedent to a Missing Person