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.
Figuratively: figure out what it means
I’ve got your back.
You’re a doll.
^Figures of Speech

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

4. A comparison must be made.
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.

5. 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.

6. Personification Giving human traits to objects or ideas. Examples
The sunlight danced.
Water on the lake shivers.
The streets are calling me.

7. 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.

8. Alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Examples: She sells seashells by the seashore.

9. Onomatopoeia
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named. Examples: Buzz! Flash! Sizzle! Pop!

10. Pun
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. Examples: A horse is a very stable animal. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

11. Idiom
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words. Examples: Blessing in disguise Don’t cry over spilt milk. Taste of your own medicine.

12. Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. Examples: Jumbo shrimp Random order

13. Quiz On a separate sheet of paper…
I will put an example of figurative language on the board.
You will write the type of figurative language.
You can use your notes.

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

15. 2
Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are kings and queens.

16. 3
Can I see you for a second?

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

18. 5
A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.

19. 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.

20. 7
Ravenous and savage from its long polar journey, the North Wind is searching for food—

21. 8
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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

23. 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

24. Answers
Simile
Metaphor
Understatement
Personification
Hyperbole