Figuratively Speaking!

Figurative Language

• Appeals to the imagination• Makes a comparison between different things to

create a mental image• 6 Types of Figurative language:

– Simile

– Metaphor

– Hyperbole

– Alliteration

– Personification

– Onomatopoeia

Simile

• A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• He eats like a pig.• I’m as light as a feather.

• My teeth are gleaming like I’m chewing on aluminum foil. -Nelly

Metaphor

• Makes a comparison of two different things WITHOUT using like or as.

-States that something is something else.

• You are the light in my life.

• Life is a garden, dig it.

• Everyday IS a winding road. Everyday IS faded sign. -Sheryl Crow

Hyperbole

• An exaggeration

• I nearly died laughing.• I think of you a million times a day.• I had so much homework, I needed a pickup truck

to carry all my books home.

• I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more… -The Proclaimers

How do you tell them apart?(take notes)

• Simile: • uses like or as

– He was AS cold AS ice. - He was cold LIKE ice.

• Metaphor: • makes a comparison WITHOUT using like or as

– A cup of tea IS the best medicine for a cold.

• Hyperbole: • exaggeration

– My brother exploded when he saw the damage to his car.

Alliteration

• The matching or repetition of consonant sounds is called alliteration, or the repeating of the same letter (or sound) at the beginning of words following each other immediately or at short intervals.

– lady lounges lazily – sweet smell of success– a dime a dozen– bigger and better– jump for joy

Alliteration

• “Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table, waiting for Warren. When she heard his step. . . “ -Robert Frost

• sink or swim • do or die• the more the merrier• live and learn

Personification

• figurative language that gives inanimate objects or animals human characteristics.

Example: The wind reached down and plucked the leaves from the lawn.

-My pencils keep getting up and walking away from me!

Onomatopoeia

• A word that imitates the sound it represents– Imitative harmony

Examples:

splash clang squeak

gush hiss boom

kerplunk purr crash