1. Figurative Language

2. Objective
We will distinguish between different types of figurative language using guided note-taking, 3-D leaves, crossword puzzle, and Loopwriter/matching game.

3. Figurative Language
Figurative language is a word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness.
Used well, figurative language enhances your fiction, and can be an economical way of getting an image or a point across. However, used incorrectly, figurative language can be confusing.

4. Alliteration
Example: The wild and woolly walrus waits and wonders when we’ll walk by.
The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words.

5. Hyperbole Big exaggeration usually with humor.
Example: I’m so hungry I could eat a cow!

6. Idiom
A phrase or expression with a meaning differing from the literal meaning.
She sings at the top of her lungs.

7. Metaphor Comparing two things not using the words like or as.
Saying one is the object, not like the object.
Example: Richard ran up the ladder faster than a fireman.

8. Simile Comparing two things using the words like or as.
He was as cold as ice.

9. Onomatopoeia
Using words that sound like or imitate what they describe.
Example: Zip goes the jacket.

10. Personification Giving an object human characteristics.
The pencil danced across the paper.

11. Oxymoron Two words that are opposite of each other put together.
Living dead

12. The End
You will find figurative language especially in poetry, but it is used to enhance all types of writing.