Figurative Language
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGENot literal, the language behind the language
Simile
A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another using the word “like” or “as” (OED)
Example: Suzie is quiet as a mouse and tall as a giraffe
Example
Suzie is quiet as a mouse
Two things being compared
Suzie Mouse
Characteristic(s) being compared
Quiet,
Suzie is tall as a giraffe
Similes in Pop Culture
love, like blood, is pouring out of me Counting Crows
Two things being compared
Characteristic(s) being compared
Love Blood
Similes in Pop Culture
All eyes on me in the center of the ringJust like a circus
When I crack that whip, everybody gon' trip
Just like a circusEverybody let go, we can make a dancefloor
Just like a circus
Click Me!
Similes in Pop Culture
Thank God the week is done/I feel like a zombie gone back to life
Usher
Two things being compared
Characteristic(s) being compared
Similes in Pop Culture
Between the absence of Hagrid and the presence of those dragonish horses, he had felt that his return to Hogwarts, so long anticipated, was full of unexpected surprises like jarring notes in a familiar song.
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance (OED)
A comparison between two unlike things not using “like” or “as”
Example: Lisa was a hippo compared to her ant of a sister
Example
Lisa was a hippo
Two things being compared
Lisa Hippo
Characteristic(s) being compared
Size
Lisa was a hippo compared to her ant of a sister
Metaphors in Pop Culture
A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets
-Titanic
Two things being compared
Characteristic(s) being compared
Woman’s Heart Ocean
Deep
Pop Culture-- Pitbull
My life is a movie, and you just Tivo-ed
Honey got me swishin' like a dreadlock
She won't wrestle, but I got her in a headlock
“Crooked Teeth”
And I knew I'd made horrible call,And now the state line felt like the Berlin wall,And there was no doubt about which side I was on.
Cause I built you a home in my heart,With rotten wood, and it decayed from the start.
Cause at night the sun in retreat,Made the skyline look like crooked teeth,In the mouth of a man who was devouring, us both.
“Crooked Teeth”
“Crooked Teeth”
I'm a war, of head versus heart,And it's always this way.My head is weak, my heart always speaks,Before I know what it will say.
Extra Notes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQL-wEe03hc&feature=related 1:46
4:06 Just like a pill Now I’m feelin’ so fly like a G6 My love is a life-taker