1. Figurative Language

2. Literal Language Definition: Words function exactly as defined
Example: He caught the football.

3. Figurative Language
Definition: Words are used in a way other than their literal sense to create a picture or image.
Examples: Idioms, similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, alliteration

4. Simile Definition: Comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”
Examples:
The metal twisted like a ribbon.
She is as sweet as candy.

5. Metaphor
Definition: Two things are compared without using “like” or “as.”
Examples: All the world is a stage.
She has a stone heart.

6. Hyperbole
Definition: a huge exaggeration to show strong feeling or effect
Examples: My house is a million miles from here.
My backpack weighs
a ton.

7. Personification Definition: giving human traits to non-human things.
Examples: The sunlight danced.
Water on the lake shivers.
The streets are calling me.

8. alliteration
Definition: the repetition of first consonant sounds in a group of words
Examples:
Sally sells sea shells by the seashore.

9. onomatopoeia
Definition: the use of words that sound like what they mean
Examples:
“pow”
“thwhack”

10. Idiom
Definition: an expression that means something other than the literal meaning of its words.
Example: He’s pulling your leg.

11. allusion
Definition: a reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts
Examples:
He turned into Scrooge on
Christmas Eve.

13. Guided Practice
He drew a line as straight as an arrow.

14. Guided Practice I will read an example of figurative language.
Raise your hand to identify whether it is an idiom, simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, or understatement.
You can use your notes, but be prepared to explain your answer.

15. Guided Practice
Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are kings and queens.

16. Guided Practice
Can I see you for a second?

17. Guided Practice
The sun was beating down on me.

18. Guided Practice
He kicked the bucket.

19. Guided Practice
A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.

20. Independent Practice
On a separate sheet of paper, number one through six.
I will read an example of figurative language.
On your paper, identify whether it is an idiom, simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, or understatement.
You may use your notes, but be prepared to explain your answer.

21. Independent Practice
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.

22. Independent Practice
Ravenous and savage from its long polar journey, the North Wind is searching for food—

23. Independent Practice
He took me to the cleaners again.

24. Independent Practice
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

25. Independent Practice
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

26. Answers to Independent Practice
Hyperbole
Personification
Idiom
Metaphor
Understatement