Symbols A symbol is any person, place or thing that has a deeper meaning. Can symbolize pride, strength, control, leadership Can symbolize freedom, pride, culture Can symbolize peace, equality, bravery, quiet strength Can symbolize peace, religion, right and wrong Thing Person Place

What a FIGURE!!!! Figurative Language – are words, phrases and sentences used to create strong descriptions in writing.

Examples Simile (SIH-muh-lee): a comparison between two or more things using the words like or as. Example: "I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti." Metaphor (MET-uh-for): a comparison between two or more things that doesn't use the words like or as. Example: "You are an ant, while I'm the lion." Alliteration (uh-LIT-er-AY-shuhn): a phrase with a string of words all beginning with the same sound. Example: "Five freaky females finding sales at retail."

Hyperbole (hie-PER-buh-lee): an exaggeration. Example: "I fought a million rappers in an afternoon in June." Personification, (per-son-if-ih-KAY-shon): giving an animal or object human-like characteristics. Example: "Alright, the sky misses the sun at night." Paradox (PARE-uh-docks): a statement that seems untrue, that seems to contradict itself. Example: "The poorest man is the richest, and the rich are poor." Symbol (SIM-bull): something that stands for something else (often something more abstract). Example: In Tupac Shakur's song Me and My Girlfriend, the "girflfriend" referenced is actually his gun. Assonance (ASS-uh-nince): the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyme. Example: "Hear the mellow wedding bells." - Edgar Allen Poe" Onomatopoeia (ON-uh-maht-uh-PEE-uh): a word that imitates the sound it is describing. Example: "Out of reach, I pull out with a screech."

Example: "O, King Vitamin cereal, you blow my mind!" Apostrophe (uh-POS-troh-fee): a figure of speech that addresses (talks to) a dead or nonpresent person, or an object. Example: "O, King Vitamin cereal, you blow my mind!" Imagery (IM-aj-ree): a very general term that encompasses nearly any description of something that conjures an image, sound, taste, smell or feeling to mind. In other words a literal or concrete representation of a sensory experience or of an object that can be known by one or more senses. Example: "Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells" - T.S. Eliot Metonymy (met-TON-im-ee): a figure of speech that replaces the literal thing with a more vivid, but closely related thing or idea. Example: Instead of saying "give me your attention," you could say "give me your ear." Understatement (UHN-der-stayt-ment): the opposite of hyperbole, an understatement makes something that is a big deal seem not very important. It's often used for humor. Example: "The boat had been ripped apart by the storm and now a dozen hungry sharks began circling the captain. 'This isn't great,' he told his wife." Use computers and web to play identify the figurative language. Website is http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative-language/figurative-language-worksheets/

Testing your knowledge 4 “cause I’m coming at you like a dark horse.” (simile) 5”The Sultan of swat, the king of crash, the colossus of clout.” (alliteration ) 6 “The wind is howling like a swirling storm inside.” 7 “That is the voice of an angel.” (metaphor” 8 “Your voice is like a combination of Fergie and Jesus.” 9 “That boy is like a disease.” 10 “He is like a curse, like a drug .” Watch the video and try to identify the literary device that is used 1”Baby you’re a song you make me want to roll my windows down…” (metaphor) 2 “You, with your voice like nails.” (Simile) 3 “He is so fluffy I am gonna die!” Hyperbole)

23. “Or maybe it’s the party talking or the chocolate fondue.” 11.“He’s a good time cowboy Casanova.” (metaphor) 12. “He looks like a cold drink of water.” (simile) 13. “But he is candy coated mystery.” Metaphor 14 “He is the devil in disguise … a snake with blue eyes.” 15.“Sunshine she’s here you can take a break.” (personification) 16.“Here comes bad news talking this and that.” 17.“I’m a hot air balloon that can go out to space.” 18.“If you feel like a room without a roof.” 19. “Life is like a box of chocolates.” simile) 20. “ I can eat about a million of these.” hyperbole 21. “I can hold you down like I am giving lessons in physics.” (Simile) 22. “ All my life has been a series of doors in my face” 23. “Or maybe it’s the party talking or the chocolate fondue.” (personification) 24. “Love is an open door.” (metaphor) 25. “This girl is on fire.” 26. “Life is your restaurant and I am your maitred’i “ 27. “The only monster her is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother.” 28. “My head’s under water, but I am breathing fine.” hyperbole) 29. “My head spinning.” (hyperbole) 30. “As fragile as a flower.” (simile) 31. “…still a sapling, just a sprout.” alliteration 32 “Please they will eat you up alive.” 33. “I get 10,00 hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs as they try to teach me how to dance” 34. I am covering my ears like a kid.” 35. “Put our hands up like the ceiling can’t hold us.”