Figurative Language is like a picture made out of words… SPI 0701.8.10 Identify and analyze figurative language within context.

Figurative Language Figurative Language is any type of writing that tries to imaginatively create a mental picture of what the writer is trying to describe. Figurative Language includes similes, metaphors, hyperboles, personification, puns

A comparison of 2 things using “like” or “as” Simile A comparison of 2 things using “like” or “as”

REMEMBER: Use a SIMILE to show that something is SIMILAR. TO DO: Fill in the following similes: Her hair is as white as ________________. His biceps are as hard as ______________. The moons shines bright like ___________.

Metaphor a comparison of 2 things where you say one thing actually IS something else. This is similar to a _________, but it doesn’t use like or as. SIMILE

Metaphors… the language of love w People who are in Love often use metaphors without realizing it… When people use cutesy names for each other, like My teddy bear or My Dearest Cuddle Bunny they are using metaphors. The person using the compliment is comparing their love interest to something else by saying they ARE something else… like Kitten Muffin Princess Pumpkin Sunshine Bon Bon Baby Doll Apple of my eye Huggy Bear Honey Pot

Love Poem Creator My Love Your skin glows like the Strawberry, blossoms Cool as the Tulip in the purest hope of spring. My heart follows your Clarinet voice and leaps like a Frog at the whisper of your name. The evening floats in on a great Cardinal wing. I am comforted by your Shirt that I carry into the twilight of moonbeams and hold next to my Toes. I am filled with hope that I may dry your tears of Water. As my Fingers falls from my Socks, it reminds me of your Cup. In the quiet, I listen for the last Whistle of the day. My heated Eye leaps to my Scarf. I wait in the moonlight for your secret Car so that we may Run as one, Eye to Eye, in search of the magnificent Blue and mystical Television of love.

Responding to Poetry The Fog by Carl Sandburg Copy the following poem into your Poetry Portfolio: The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. The Fog by Carl Sandburg

Find an example of a metaphor in the poem “The Fog.” The fog IS a cat. What does this tell us about the fog?

The Fog by Carl Sandburg In your poetry portfolio, answer one or more of the following questions in 75-100 words. 1. What does the author compare the fog to? What is this an example of? 2. What MOOD does the poem create? 3. What questions would you ask the poet if you could? 4. What did the poem make you think of?

Hyperboles

What Is a Hyperbole?

The use of exaggeration or overstatement to make an emphatic point.

People make them to sound impressive or to emphasize something’s characteristics

People often use expressions such as: "I nearly died laughing,"

I was hopping mad! She isn’t hopping.

I tried a thousand times!

My sister uses so much makeup that.. when she takes it off we don’t recognize her!

--You try some on your own! Now --You try some on your own!

My teacher is so old...

My dog is so ugly...

The town where I grew up is so isolated...

My aunt is so skinny...

The mosquitoes here are so big...

Often, hyperboles are confused with similes and metaphors… The difference is that a hyperbole is an exaggeration, not a comparison.

For example: His feet were as big as a barge. It looks like a simile… BUT

It is comparing foot size to the size of a barge It is comparing foot size to the size of a barge. Everyone knows that a barge is approximately 700 feet long. Imagine getting a pair of shoes that big! Accordingly, it’s not an accurate comparison.

So, a hyperbole is like a simile on steroids.

Now, for the part I’m not going to teach you… Yo’ Momma jokes, You’re so poor jokes, You’re so stupid jokes, Dumb Blonde Jokes… yeah, they’re all hyperbole.

Yo mama so hairy Bigfoot is taking her picture! Yo mama so stupid when your dad said it was chilly outside, she ran outside with a spoon She stood staring at the frozen orange juice because it said "Concentrate". Q: How do blonde braincells die? A: alone.

Hyperbole is supposed to evoke a ridiculous picture in your mind…..

...and in the process, make the point effectively.

Personification

Personification is giving human qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics to inanimate (non-living) objects.

Example: The window winked at me.

What do you need? To have personification you usually need… A non-person noun An action a person would do

On your own paper, write the object being personified and the meaning of the personification.

1. The wind sang her mournful song through the falling leaves.

2. The microwave timer told me it was time to turn my TV dinner.

3. The video camera observed the whole scene.

4. The strawberries seemed to sing, "Eat me first!"

5. The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.

6. The daffodils nodded their yellow heads at the walkers.

7. The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers.

8. The snow whispered as it fell to the ground during the early morning hours.

9. The china danced on the shelves during the earthquake.

10. The car engine coughed and sputtered when it started during the blizzard.

Draw an example of personification… you may use one of the examples from earlier or make up your own

Pun A pun is when a word has two possible meanings Puns are usually funny You will find them most commonly in funny poems like limericks (more on limericks later)