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LITERAL & FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

• words, and groups of words, that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component words.

• words that do not deviate from their defined meaning.

THE DIFFERENCELITERAL FIGURATIVE

• A comparison using like or as

• Ex. The lawyer was as wicked as a snake.

• A comparison that does not use like or as

• Ex. The lawyer was a snake in the grass.

TYPES OF FIGURATIVE MEANINGMetaphor Simile

• Giving an inanimate object or an animal human characteristics

• Ex. The willow branches waved in the dancing wind as the brook babbled quietly.

• An exaggeration• Ex. I’ve told you a

billion times to clean your room.

FIGURATIVE CONTINUEDHyperbole Personification

SOMETIMES IT IS NECESSARY TO EXAMINE CONTEXT

The man kicked the bucket

FINDING LITERAL LANGUAGE IN A POEMMy mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat music hath a far more pleasing sound;I grant I never saw a goddess go;My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

• Her eyes shone like the sun

• Skin as white as snow

• Rosy cheeks• Voice that sounds

like a melody• Like a goddess

FIND THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN A POEMFrom childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw; I could not bringMy passions from a common spring.From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow; I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone;And all I loved, I loved alone.Then- in my childhood, in the dawnOf a most stormy life- was drawnFrom every depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still:From the torrent, or the fountain,From the red cliff of the mountain,From the sun that round me rolledIn its autumn tint of gold,From the lightning in the skyAs it passed me flying by,From the thunder and the storm,And the cloud that took the form(When the rest of Heaven was blue)Of a demon in my view. • Alone by Edgar Allen Poe

LISTENING ACTIVITYFind literal and figurative meaning in songs

***“soldier” by Gavin Degraw***

YOUR TURNUpgrade the diction of these sentences using figurative language

JOHN IS VERY FAST.

THE STAIRS CREAKED.

MY COMPUTER IS SLOW.

SUMMARY• What is Figurative language?• What is Literal language?• What is the difference between metaphors and similes?• Give and example of personification.• Give an example of a Hyperbole.

PUNS• A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a

word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.

GAME TIME!

Figure out these visual punsRaise your handIf you are right you get a piece of candy

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