1. Figurative Language
Figuring it Out

2. Figurative and Literal Language
Literally: words function exactly as defined
The car is blue.
He caught the football.
He drove me to the store.
This food is for us.
She fed her son his lunch.
My teacher bashed his head on the desk as he fell.
There is one bird in my hand but there are two in the bush.

3. Figurative and Literal Language
Figuratively: Figure out what it means The football player is blue. He caught it for missing the football. He drove me up the wall. This food is for the birds. Her son is fed up. My teacher bashed his head on the desk after he saw our test scores. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

4. Figurative and Literal Language
Literally: words function exactly as defined
I’ve got your backpack.
This is a doll.
I’ll walk with you to the store.
You can count how much money I have.
My back is straight.
He drew a B on the paper.
This is where I drew the line on the wall.
She choked while eating.
^Literal Speech

5. Figurative and Literal Language
Figuratively: figure out what it means
I’ve got your back.
You’re a doll.
I’ll walk you through it.
You can count on me/count me out/in
I’m as straight as an arrow.
He made a B-line for the bathroom.
This is where I draw the line.
She got all choked-up while speaking.
^Figures of Speech

6. Different Types of Figurative Language
Figurative Speech isn’t just one type. There are different types, such as…

7. It is a comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”
a Simile
It is a comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”

8. Simile
It is a comparison of two things using “like” or “as.” Examples The metal twisted like a ribbon. It fell like a house of cards. She is as sweet as candy. That guy is as tough as nails. That steak is as rubbery as a tire.

9. A comparison must be made.
Important!
Simply using “like” or “as” doesn’t make a simile.
A comparison must be made.
Are these similies?
I ate the whole thing because I like pizza very much.
The moon tonight is perfectly round, like a pizza.

10. A comparison must be made.
Important!
Simply using “like” or “as” doesn’t make a simile.
A comparison must be made.
Are these similies?
NOT a Simile I ate the whole thing because I like pizza very much.
Simile!The moon tonight is perfectly round, like a pizza.

11. Your Examples “Try your hand” and give us some of your examples
He/she is like…
It (did sth) like…
He/she/it is as ___ as a ___

12. Metaphor Two things are compared without using “like” or “as.”
Examples
All the world is a stage.
Men are dogs!
She has a stone heart.
He is the light of the world.

13. “Try your hand” and give us some of your examples

14. Personification Giving human traits to objects or ideas. Examples
The sunlight danced across the room.
The water on the lake shivered.
The streets are calling out to me.
The rivers nearby chattered nonstop.
The trees moaned in the wind and their leaves whispered nonstop.

15. “Try your hand” and give us some of your examples

16. Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect.
Hyperbole
Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect.
Examples
I will love you forever.
My house is a million miles from here.
She’d kill me if she ever found out.
If you die before I do, ask if you can bring a friend.
I’ve been beating my head against the wall trying to figure this stuff out!

17. “Try your hand” and give us some of your examples

18. Understatement Expression with less strength than expected.
The opposite of hyperbole.
I’ll be there in one second.
This won’t hurt a bit.
My mom wasn’t impressed that I’d lied.
He was dissatisfied with the failure.
My divorce was definitely an inconvenience.

19. “Try your hand” and give us some of your examples

20. He drew a line as straight as an arrow.1
He drew a line as straight as an arrow.

21. Quiz On a separate sheet of paper…
I will put an example of figurative language on the board.
You will write whether it is an simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, or understatement.
You can use your notes.

22. 2
Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are kings and queens.

23. 3
Can I see you for a second?

24. The sun was beating down on me.4
The sun was beating down on me.

25. 5
A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.

26. 6
I'd rather take baths with a man-eating shark, or wrestle a lion alone in the dark, eat spinach and liver, pet ten porcupines, than tackle the homework my teacher assigns.

27. 7
Ravenous and savage from its long polar journey, the North Wind searches for food…

28. 8
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

29. Can I have one of your chips?9
Can I have one of your chips?

30. 10
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise

31. Answers
Simile
Metaphor
Understatement
Personification
Hyperbole

32. Experiment
What other ways can we create to express what we want to say?
(What are some common expressions you can think of?)