1. Figurative Language Presentation
Go Figure!
Figurative Language
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2. Recognizing Figurative Language
The opposite of literal language is figurative language. Figurative language is language that means more than what it says on the surface.

3. What is figurative language?
Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using figurative language.

4. Imagery • Sight • Hearing • Touch • Taste • Smell
Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses.
• Sight
• Hearing
• Touch
• Taste
• Smell

5. Did you notice how descriptive the lyrics are?
Imagery (examples)
“On a starry winter night in Portugal
Where the ocean kissed the southern shore
There a dream I never thought would come to pass
Came and went like time spent through an hourglass”
-Teena Marie,
Did you notice how descriptive the lyrics are?
“Portuguese Love” The sample above was taken from soul, songstress of the 1980s, Teena Marie’s hit love song entitled “Portuguese Love.”

6. Simile
A figure of speech which involves a direct comparison between two unlike things, usually with the words like or as.
Example: The muscles on his brawny arms are strong as iron bands.

7. Metaphor
A figure of speech which involves an implied comparison between two relatively unlike things using a form of be. The comparison is not announced by like or as.
Example: The road was a ribbon wrapped through the dessert.

8. Alliteration
Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words or within words.
Example: She was wide-eyed and wondering while she waited for Walter to waken.

9. Personification
A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea.
Example: “The wind yells while blowing."
The wind cannot yell. Only a living thing can yell.

10. Onomatopoeia The use of words that mimic sounds.
Example: The firecracker made a loud ka-boom!

11. Hyperbole
An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect. It is not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasize a point.
Example: She said to clean my room a million times.

12. Idioms
An idiom or idiomatic expression refers to a construction or expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language.
Example: “It’s raining cats and dog’s”
Cannot be literally translated into another language word for word.

13. Oxymoron
a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings.
Examples:
Pretty ugly
Jumbo Shrimp
So close, yet so far
His intelligence has reached a level of incompetence.
Poor little rich kid
Best of the worst

14. Irony
When the unexpected happens

15. Symbolism
Symbol is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. *The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.

16. Symbol (examples)

17. Allusion
Allusion is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event.
An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion.

18. Allusion (example)
“I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.” This refers to the story of Pinocchio, where his nose grew whenever he told a lie.
“When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge, and refused to buy anything that wasn’t necessary.” Scrooge was an extremely stingy character from Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol. 
“This place is like a Garden of Eden.” – This is a biblical allusion to the “garden of God” in the Book of Genesis.
“Stop acting like my ex-husband please.” – Apart from scholarly allusions we refer to common people and places in our speech.