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Introducing Figurative Language
Today’s Agenda:1. Figurative Language Review –mini-
lesson w/guided notes
2. Figurative Language: Task Cards, Anchor Charts & Miracle WorkerSearch Activities
Warm-up
On your Post-it, answer the following:
1. In your own words, What is Figurative Language?
2. List any types of Figurative Language that you already know.
Hmmm…
Figurative language is the use of words that go beyond their ordinary meanings.
Figurative language requires you to use your imagination to figure out the author's
meaning.
The water’s reflection was like the sun on glass.
Why is it important?
• Figurative language is language that means more than what it says on the surface
• It usually gives us a feeling about its subject• It helps the reader to visualize (see) what the
writer is thinking
• It puts a picture in the readers mind
Types of Figurative Language• Simile• Metaphor• Onomatopoeia• Personification• Hyperbole• Alliteration• Idioms
• and more…
• Assonance• Consonance• Repetition• Imagery• Pun• Irony• Oxymoron• Adage• Analogy
SIMILE-A figure of speech comparing two different
things using the words “like” or “as.”
After the football game, the boy was so sore he walkedlike a toy soldier.
METAPHOR-A figure of speech comparing two different things
without using the words “like” or “as.”
Stars are buttons off the angels’ gowns.
Onomatopoeia-a word or words that imitate a sound.
The click, click, click of the computer keys gave Mrs. Jones a headache.
Personification-giving human characteristics to things that are
not human.
The moonlight walked across the
water.
HYPERBOLE-figurative language where exaggeration
is used for emphasis.
Our teacher is so old she probably taught cavemen how to make a wheel.
Alliteration-figurative language using the repetition
of consonant sounds.
Cop Curt wrote Wanda the Witch a speeding ticket. She was flying and flipping over the fifty-five mile an hour limit.
IDIOM-Well-Known phrases that mean something different than what the words seem to mean.
You can do whatever floats
your boat.
What type of figurative language is used in the
following sentence?
Jimmy is so skinny, a skeleton looks fatter
than he does!
What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
• You’ve been playing video games long enough, now it’s time to hit the books.