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Figurative LanguageFigurative language is language that
is not meant to be taken literally, or word for word.
It stirs up your imagination, and
makes you see things more clearly. Like what
?
Simile• Similes are comparisons between two
dissimilar things that use the words like or as
• For example:
Her angry eyes burned like a nuclear explosion.
My tummy growled like an angry lion.
My tummy growled as if a lion was inside of me.
Metaphor• Metaphors are comparisons between two
dissimilar things that do not use the words like or as
• For example:
The moon was a lantern
lighting the night sky.
I am peanut butter and my best friend is jelly. Can you think of
one??
Hyperbole• Hyperbole uses extravagant exaggeration
to make a point.
• For example:
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
I tried the math problem a thousand times.
Your turn.
Personification• Personification gives human qualities to
nonhuman things, such as nature, animals, objects, or feelings.
• For example:The leaves danced in the wind.
The smell of the coffee called my name. One more time…Mrs. Terry…
Oxymoron• An Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which
opposites are paired for effect.
• For example:I ordered jumbo shrimp at Joe’s Crab Shack.
Bittersweet chocolate is the best kind to use when you’re baking.High school graduation is bittersweet.
Allusion• An allusion is a reference to a person, place, event, or literary work
that a writer expects the reader to recognize and understand. It may come from history, geography, literature, art, music, or religion.
• For example: “How could you be so Dr. Evil?”
Kanye West, Heartless
Symbol• A symbol is an object, person, place, or action that has a
meaning in itself, and that also stands for something larger than itself.
• For example:A dove symbolizes peace.
A black crow or raven symbolizes death.
A wedding ring symbolizes...???
Sound Devices…• Some literary devices focus on the
sound of words rather than their meaning.
Literary DeviceFigurative Language
Repetition• Repetition is when an author repeats a word,
phrase, sentence, or stanza for effect or emphasis.
• Examples: • “Secrets” by One Republic• The chorus or refrain of any song
Rhyme• Rhyme is the repetition of end sounds in two or
more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem.
• For example:All day the gusty north wind bore
The loosening drift its breath before;
Low circling round its southern zone,
The sun through dazzling snow-mist shone.
Alliteration• Alliteration is the repetition of a sound at
the beginning of words.
• For example:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Other common examples:
Coca-cola, Tiny Tim, Mickey Mouse
Can you think of any you’ve heard?
Onomatopoeia• Onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like
the sound it makes.
• For example, words like:popcracklescreechzipfizz
Can you name one?
Assonance• Assonance is the repetition of vowel
sounds (not a rhyme).
• For example:
Then came the drone of a boat
in the cove.
Consonance• Consonance is the repetition of consonant
sounds at the end or middle of words (not rhyme).
• For example:
The little bitty ant crawled across the field.
Tone• Tone is the writer’s attitude toward a
subject, character, or audience and is conveyed through the author’s choice of diction, imagery, figurative language, details, and syntax.
• (In otherwords, tone is how the author feels about his subject, character, or audience, and he shows it through the words he chooses, and how he puts them together.)
Story Elements
Some words that can describe tone are:
Tone
happy excited angry
sad fearful threatening
thoughtful nervous agitated
ecstatic worried depressed
Belligerent
Nervous Sad
Ecstatic
Tone• For example:
“I cannot go to school today,”Said little Peggy Ann McKay.“I have the measles and the mumps,A gash, a rash, and purple bumps…My tonsils are as big as rocks,I’ve counted sixteen chickenpoxAnd there’s one more –that’s seventeen,And don’t you think my face looks green?”…I have a hangnail, and my heart is…what?What’s that? What’s that you say?You say today is…Saturday?G’bye, I’m going out to play!”
--from “Sick” by Shel Silverstein
Theme• Theme is the central message of a literary work, or the
idea the author wishes to convey about that subject. It is not the same as the subject, which can be expressed in one or two words. (This is a lot like a truism.)
• Possible themes for The Outsiders:
– Not all kids who are in gangs are bad.– People may come from different backgrounds, but we’re all
the same people.– If something bad happens to someone, don’t blame it on
yourself if it’s not really your fault.
Imagery• Imagery consists of words or phrases that the writer
uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses. [It is important to note that the word touch, taste, etc. is not necessarily used to create the image.]
Example:– We walked into the pitch black room that reeked of death, and
as we flicked on the light we heard a blood-curdling scream.
Non-example:– The room smelled bad.
Stanza• A stanza is a group of related words in a poem, similar to a paragraph of prose but
does not have to have complete sentences.• It’s like a poetry paragraph!
“When the Teacher’s Back is Turned” by Ken Nesbitt
When the teacher’s back is turned
We never scream and shout
Never do we drop our books
and try to freak her out.
No one throws a pencil
At the ceiling of the class.
No one tries to hit the fire alarm
And break the glass.
Stanza 1
Stanza 2
Practice
Identify the figurative language in each sentence:
1) The wind whistled through the leaves.
Practice
Identify the figurative language in each sentence:
2) I love eating chocolate chip cookies.
Practice
Identify the figurative language in each sentence:
3) Her eyes were burning coals glistening in the dark night.
Practice
Identify the figurative language in each sentence:
4) The precocious girl popped her gum loudly.
Practice
Identify the figurative language in each sentence:
5) The smell of the pasta called my name.
Practice
Identify the figurative language in each sentence:
6) I called you a million times last night!
Practice
Identify the figurative language in each sentence:
8) My head hurts so bad that it might explode!
Practice
Identify the figurative language in each sentence:
9) After the boy threw it, the rock tap danced its way across the lake.