1. Figurative Langauage

2. Definition: A comparison of two unlike things.
Metaphor
Definition: A comparison of two unlike things.
The tree was tremendous, an irate, steely black steeple beside the river” (Knowles 14).
He is a beast.
“The world is a vampire, sent to drain”

3. Similes Comparison of unlike objects using ‘like’ or ‘as’
I wandered lonely as a cloud.
You are like a hurricane.
She is as fast as the wind.

4. Extending Metaphors World = Stage People = Actors Births and deaths?
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players They have their exits and their entrances
-Shakespeare
World = Stage
People = Actors
Births and deaths?
What else?

5. Extending Metaphors -Is -Are -Is Like Pick a topic
Politics
Being a student
Sports (baseball, soccer, basketball, etc).
Growing up
Falling in love
Life
Siblings
English class
Pick a metaphor – be specific – if possible
A baseball game
A box of chocolates
A prison sentence
A battle
A marathon
A vacation
A plant
A season
-Is
-Are
-Is Like

6. Personification
Giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas.)
Examples:
The rain poured angrily.
Chaos is a friend of mine.

7. Technically, an animal cannot be personified. The proper word is…
Anthropomorphism!

8. Allusion
Makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication.
Examples:
Fluffy from Harry Potter = Cerberus in Greek mythology

9. Hyperbole An exaggeration used for emphasis
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
I have 1000 things to do.

10. Oxymoron Combining of contradictory terms. Two word paradox
“Jumbo Shrimp”
“Living Dead”

11. Theater Terms
Soliloquy – a character speaks to him or herself while the audience watches and listens.
Aside – Remark by a character in a ply intended to be heard by the audience but not by other characters.
Monologue – Long speech by a character.

12. Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward a subject, character, or audience.
- Hints towards a certain plot development
Foreshadowing

13. Pun
Form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, often used with similar sounding words.
Same word, multiple meanings
-A horse is a very stable animal.
- "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
Different word; same sound
Person 1: “Surely you can’t be serious”
Person 2: “I am serious, and don’t call me Shirly”

14. Bad Puns