1. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
By: Valentina Widya. S

2. Figurative Language
It’s a way of saying one thing and meaning another. It’s a tool that an author employs (or uses) to help the reader visualize (or see) what is happening in a story or poem.

3. SIMILE and METAPHOR

4. Simile Is a comparison using LIKE or AS.
It’s usually compares two dissimilar object.
It’s explicit comparison
Example:
SHE IS AS SHARP AS A PENCIL.
You're like coming home;
Busy as a bee.
Clean as a whistle.
Brave as a lion.

5. Dream Deferred What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode
Langston Hughes

6. Metaphor
States that one thing is something else. It is a comparison, but it does NOT use like or as to make comparison. It’s implicit comparison When you use a metaphor, you make a statement that doesn’t make sense literally, like “time is a thief.” It only makes sense when the similarities between the two things become apparent or someone understands the connection between the two words. Example: Her hair is silk “You're a midsummer's dream under a star-soaked sky.”

7. Examples: Examples include: The world is my oyster.
You are a couch potato.
Time is money.
He has a heart of stone.
America is a melting pot.
You are my sunshine.

8. Tranquility by StarFields
Time slides
a gentle ocean
waves upon waves,
washing the shore,
loving the shore.
Can you see that ocean?
Can you feel the slow rhythm of the waves?
Can you sense the essence of tranquility?
Do you understand the concept of tranquility better now?
Do you feel more tranquil in having touched this?

9. Personification
gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas. This can really affect the way the reader imagines things. This type of figurative language is often used in children’s books, poetry, and fictional literature

10. Examples
Opportunity knocked on the door. The sun greeted me this morning. The sky was full of dancing stars. The vines wove their fingers together to form a braid. The radio stopped singing and stared at me. The sun played hide and seek with the clouds.

11. Hyperbole
A hyperbole is an outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point, and can be ridiculous or funny. Hyperboles can be added to fiction to add color and depth to a character. Examples are:

12. Example You snore louder than a freight train.
It's a slow burg. I spent a couple of weeks there one day.
She is so dumb, she thinks Taco Bell is a Mexican phone company.
I had to walk 15 miles to school in the snow, uphill.
You could have knocked me over with a feather.

13. Symbolism and Allegory

14. Symbolism
Is a visible object or action that suggest some further meaning in addition to itself. Symbol is something tangible, something that you can touch with your hand. Conventional symbol have a customary effect on us Example : cross = Christianity rose = love

15. Analyzing Figurative Language
It’s not enough to be able to identify what a poet or writer is doing.
What use is being made of this expression?
How does it contribute to the experience of the poem?

16. Analyzing Figurative Language
“I noticed them sitting there | as orderly as frozen fish | in a package.”
Conveys the absence of life through the simile comparing the students to dead fish.
Frozen similarly allows us to imagine a stillness and lack of movement.
Frozen fish also have a feeling of being mass produced, they aren’t unique or special.
This allows us to characterize both the audience being described and the speaker. The audience seems still, lifeless, and indistinctive. The speaker seems a bit judgmental.

17. Analyzing Figurative Language
“I heard the sounds | of fish in an aquarium”
Compares the students to interesting, lively fish in a contained environment.
An aquarium is typically a thing of beauty that an observer will admire.
Maintains the idea that the audience isn’t free to swim away to different ideas, through the use of the aquarium. He recognizes that this is still an artificial world.
Reflects the change on the part of the speaker as he recognizes the extraordinary nature of his audience. They thrive in the atmosphere of his poetry and become a thing wonderful to behold.

18. The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference