2. Figurative Language
Figurative language is a tool that an author uses to help the reader visualize what is happening in a story or poem.
Figurative language is meant to be interpreted imaginatively not literally.

3. Types of Literary Devices
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Irony
Alliteration
Paradox
Hyperbole

4. Simile
A figure of speech that compares two dissimilar things by using the key words “like” or “as”.
Examples: Her feet felt like ice
Dead as a doornail

5. Examples of Simile

6. Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two.
Does not use “Like” or “as”.
Examples: Blanket of darkness

7. Examples of metaphor

8. Hyperbole
A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration used to make a point. It is like the opposite of “understatement.” It is from a
Hyperboles can be found in literature and oral communication.
Examples: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

9. Examples from videos Video of hyperbole from songs:
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10. Personification
Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas. It is the opposite of a metaphor but is very similar. In the arts, personification means representing a non-human thing as if it were human.

11. Examples: The leaves danced in the autumn wind.
The lightening lashed out with anger.
CAN YOU THINK OF ANY OTHER
EXAMPLES??

12. CLOSURE Today we dealt with: simile metaphor personification Hyperbole
Tomorrow’s lesson will deal with the rest
of figurative language.

13. Closure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LzMTjA qYd4
Please look at the video because it based
on the four literary devices and it is based
on music.