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Figurative Language“Figuring it Out”
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Figurative Language
Figuratively: figure out what it means
I’ve got your back.
You’re 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” doesn’t 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.” Saying that one thing is another.
Examples
All the world is a stage.
Jax is a running machine.
Her heart is stone.
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Personification
Giving human traits to objects or ideas.
Examples
The sunlight danced on the water.
The moon smiled at us.
The streets are calling me.
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Hyperbole
Extreme exaggeration/showing strong feeling or effect.
Examples
I will love you forever.
My house is a million miles away.
He is one hundred feet tall.
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Onomatopoeia
• A word that “makes” a sound
• SPLAT
• PING
• SLAM
• POP
• POW
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Idiom
• A saying that isn’t meant to be taken literally.
• Doesn’t “mean” what it says
• Don’t be a stick in the mud!
• You’re the apple of my eye.
• I have an ace up my sleeve.
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Alliteration
• Two or more words have the same beginning sound---not beginning letter.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
King Cameron likes chocolate candy.
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Assonance
• The repetition of the same vowel sound.
Planes fly really high in the sky.
The cat in the hat sat on the mat.
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Proverb
• A figurative saying in which a bit of “wisdom” is given.
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
• The early bird catches the worm.
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Pun• A form of “word play” in which
words have a double meaning.
• I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger and then it hit me.
• I was going to look for my missing watch, but I didn’t have the time.
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Quiz
On a separate sheet of paper…
1. Read the following statements.
2. Write whether it is a simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, pun, proverb, an idiom, an onomatopoeia, or an oxymoron.
3. You can use your notes.
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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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The sun was beating down on me.
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A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.
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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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Ravenous and savagefrom its longpolar journey,
the North Wind
is searchingfor food—
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Dinner is on the house.
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Don’t bit the hand that feeds you.
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The clouds smiled down at me.
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SPLAT!
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She is as sweet as candy.
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I could sleep forever!
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He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.
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I used to have a fear of hurdles, but I got over it.
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The wheat field was a sea of gold.
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The streets called to him.
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POP!
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The early bird catches the worm.
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Your face is killing me!
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She was as white as a ghost.
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She has a skeleton in her closet.
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Break a leg!
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The test was as hard as rocks!