LITERAL LANGUAGE – WORDS MEAN EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAY FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE LITERAL LANGUAGE – WORDS MEAN EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAY FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE – IMAGINATIVE USE OF WORDS.

Types of Figurative Language Simile Metaphor Hyperbole (hy-per-bo-lee) Personification Alliteration Onomatopoeia

Why do writers use FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE? To add PIZZAZZ to their writing To help the reader visualize what is going on To add VIVID images

SIMILE FIGURE OF SPEECH COMPARING UNLIKE THINGS USING “LIKE” AND “AS”

SIMILES (continued) “…the red sweater is still sitting there like a big red mountain.” “Only today I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box.”

METAPHOR A COMPARISON OF TWO THINGS NOT USING “LIKE” OR “AS”

METAPHORS (continued) “I put my head down on the desk and bury my face in my stupid clown sweater arms.” The red mountain of a sweater was sitting there on the edge of my desk. “…THE RIBBON OF ROAD WOUND THROUGH THE FARM LAND.” Crow Call - Lowry

alliteration Jerry Jordan’s jelly jar and jam Dr. Suess Repetition of the first consonant sound in words Jerry Jordan’s jelly jar and jam Dr. Suess

Alliteration (continued) “…that stupid Sylvia Saldivar says…” “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.” The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

HYPERBOLE (HY-PER-BO-LEE) OBVIOUS EXAGGERATION TO EMPHASIZE A POINT OR ADD EXCITEMENT

Hyperbole (continued) My book bag weighs a ton! I nearly died laughing. “It’s maybe a thousand years old and even if it belonged to me I wouldn’t say so.” Eleven- Cisneros

PERSONIFICATION GIVING HUMAN QUALITIES TO SOMETHING NOT HUMAN

Personification (continued) The sun wrapped its warm arms around my shoulders. The trees danced in the wind.

onomatopoeia Words that represent the actual sound of something

onomatopoeia (continued) The chalk goes screak, screak, screak like fingernails scraping. All of the Above by Shelly Piersall The sack fell into the river with a splash.

Figurative Language Guess the type of figurative language!

I ate so many tacos, I could explode!

hyperbole

The alarm clock went off like a bomb!

Simile

The ants marched home.

Personification

The police car was a neon pinball at lightning speed as we pulled our car over to the side of the dark road to get out of the way.

metaphor

The sun went to bed!

Personification

The moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

Metaphor

She was as quiet as a mouse. CLICHÉ ALERT!!

Simile

The tick-tock of the old clock.

onomatopoeia

The trees whispered to each other in the darkness.

Personification

It is going to take me a year to finish that research paper.

hyperbole

onomatopoeia

alliteration

As we looked at the pond the frog’s tongue was moving like lightning.

Simile

She ate the mountain of food greedily.

metaphor

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell

alliteration