1. Figurative & Literal Language
Introduction

2. Words or expressions that mean exactly what they say.
Literal
Words or expressions that mean exactly what they say.
Examples:
Grass looks green.
  Sand feels rough.
  The flower smells sweet.
  Grasshoppers make a high-pitched noise.

3. Words or expressions that don’t have a literal meaning.
Figurative
Words or expressions that don’t have a literal meaning.
Examples:
  The grass looks like spiky green hair.
  Sand is solid water.
  The flower has the sweetest smelling petals in the world.
  Grasshoppers are fiddlers who play their legs.

4. Types of Figurative Language

5. Simile Compares two unlike things, using the words like or as.
Example: The muscles on his brawny arms are as strong as iron.

6. Important!
Using “like” or “as” doesn‘t make a simile. A comparison must be made. Not a Simile: I like pizza. Simile: The moon is like a pizza.

7. Metaphor
Compares two unlike things without using like or as. You simply state one thing is another thing.
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
Gives the qualities of a human to non- human things (an animal, an object, or an idea).
Example: “The wind yelled.”

10. Hyperbole
An exaggerated statement used to impress or stress something, or to emphasize a point.
Example: She’s told me about her vacation several million times.

11. Example: The firecracker went
Onomatopoeia
The use of words that mimic sounds.
Example: The firecracker went
ka-boom!

12. Idiom
A phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words.
Example: He put his foot in his mouth!

13. Pun
A humorous substitution of words that are alike in sound but different in meaning.
Examples …

14. Figurative & Literal
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