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. Simile Comparison of two things using “like”, “as”, or “so” Examples The metal twisted like a ribbon. She is as sweet as candy. “So wand in hand he paced into the air…A gull patrolling…Hermes flew.” (ll39 -45)

4. 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. Homeric Simile - elaborate comparisons between two different objects using “like”, “as” or “so”. - Compares heroic or epic events to simple or easily understandable everyday events. "as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze / in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam / and its temper hardens — that's the iron's strength — / so the eye of the Cyclops sizzled round that stake!"

6. Metaphor Two things are compared without using “like” or “as.” Examples All the world is a stage. Men are dogs. Her heart is stone.

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

8. Hyperbole Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect. Examples I will love you forever. My house is a million miles away. She’d kill me.

9. Onomatopoeia A word that “makes” a sound SPLAT PING SLAM POP POW

10. Quiz On a separate sheet of paper… 1.I will put an example of figurative language on the board. 2.You will write whether it is a simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole or onomatopoeia. 3.You can use your notes.

11. 1 He drew a line as straight as an arrow.

12. 2 The clouds smiled down at me.

13. 3 SPLAT!

14. 4 The wheat field was a sea of gold.

15. 5 It must be a million degrees out here.

16. 6 "Think of a catch that fishermen haul in to a bay in a fine meshed net who all are poured out on the sand, twitching their cold lives away in: so lay the suitors heaped on one another.“ =