0. Illustrating Figurative Language

1. Literally vs. Figuratively
Who can describe the difference between literally and figuratively?
On each of your illustrations today, you will be drawing the literal meaning.

2. Simile Example: As busy as a bee Step 1: Create a simile of your own
Step 2: Illustrate the simile

3. Metaphor Example: My brother is a couch potato
Step 1: Create your own metaphor
Step 2: Illustrate your metaphor

4. Personification Example: The stars danced in the sky
Step 1: Create your personification
Step 2: Illustrate your personification

5. Hyperbole Flavor Flav’s bling is bigger than the moon.
Step 1: Create your own hyperbole
Step 2: Illustrate your hyperbole

6. Idiom Step 1: Choose one of the following idioms
Idiom: Cut a rug
Meaning: To Dance
Step 1: Choose one of the following idioms
Step 2: Illustrate the literal meaning
Step 3: Write what it means
-Apple of my eye A piece of cake An arm and a leg
-Bite your tongue - Break a leg Butterflies in your stomach
-Head over heels - Hit the sack Hold your horses
-Kick the bucket Saved by the bell Raining cats and dogs
-The last straw Under the weather - When pigs fly
-Hit the books Get the axe Get your ducks in a row

7. Pun Example: The chicken mom made last night was foul.
Step 1: Create your own pun
Step 2: Illustrate your pun

8. Pun Examples

9. Oxymoron Example: The living dead Step 1: Create your oxymoron
Step 2: Illustrate your oxymoron

10. Oxymoron Examples Jumbo shrimp Old news Only choice Pretty ugly
Big baby
Freezer burn

11. Alliteration Example: A wolf wildly Wops
Step 1: Create your own alliteration
Step 2: Illustrate your alliteration