1. Figurative Language By Sara Johnson

2. Subject: Language Arts Grade Level: 8 th grade Educational Purpose: To teach students the different types of figurative language used in literature. 2

3. What is Figurative Language? The writer or speaker describes something through the use of unusual comparisons, for effect, interest, and to make things clearer. 3

4. Alliteration The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words. Used to place emphasis on words. 4

5. Ex: Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. --Helen Keller, “The Seeing Little” 5

6. Ex: Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. --Helen Keller, “The Seeing Little” 6

7. Now you try! There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing. --Lorraine Hansbury, A Raisin in the Sun 7

8. Now you try! There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing. --Lorraine Hansbury, A Raisin in the Sun 8

9. Assonance The repetition of a vowel sound within words. Used to reinforce meanings of words and create moods. 9

10. Ex: Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came. -- Carl Sandburg, Early Moon 10

11. Ex: Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came. -- Carl Sandburg, Early Moon 11

12. Your Turn! And so, all the night tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. -- Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee” 12

13. Your Turn! And so, all the night tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. -- Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee” 13

14. Onomatopoeia The use of words to imitate sounds. Examples: Bang Pop Hiss 14

15. Can you think of some examples of onomatopoeia? 15