1. Figurative Language, and meanings

2.  Figurative Language is when a word or phrase doesn’t mean exactly what it says.  Ex: If I don’t do my homework; my mom is going to skin me alive.  (Your mom will not LITERALLY skin you alive, she will probably yell at you, and take away your ipod.)

3.  Literal Language means EXACTLY what it says.  Ex: Trespassers will be shot on sight.  This literally means you will  be shot as soon as someone  sees you.

4.  Simile  Metaphor  Personification  Hyperbole  Idiom

5.  A Simile compares two things that are not alike using the words “like” or “as.”  My friend’s daughter is as big as a whale.  You can tell this is figurative, because people can’t really get 80 feet long.

6.  A metaphor compares two things that are alike, but it doesn’t use the words “like” or “as.”  Your mind is a vault… that nobody can figure the combination to.

7.  Personification gives human qualities to something that isn’t human.  The sheep calculated the odds, and plotted it’s revenge.

8.  A Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration. A simile or metaphor can’t be a Hyperbole.  I’m so hungry, I could eat an entire bear.

9.  An idiom is a phrase, or saying, that is NOTHING like what it literally says.  EX: A rolling stone gathers no moss.  Literally: a stone that rolls around all the time doesn’t get all mossy.  Figuratively: It is better to keep active, and moving… you’ll stay younger.