This document provides an overview of various types of figurative language, including alliteration, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, oxymoron, personification, dramatic irony, situational irony, verbal irony, and examines examples of their use in Taylor Swift's song "Blank Space." It encourages students to engage in partner activities to share their understanding and provide their own examples using the figurative language devices.

1. Figurative Language
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2. What is figurative language?
• Everyone stand up and raise your hand
• Find someone, high five them, and share your
answer
• After both people have shared, raise your
hand again
• Find another partner

3. Figurative Language
• Using words and expressions to convey
something other than its literal meaning
• “Deliberate departure from the conventional
meaning, order, or construction of words”
(Grammar.about.com)

4. Alliteration
• Words having the same first consonant sound
that occur close together in a series
• Ex: The little lamb lost his locket.

5. Alliteration
• Create a sentence that has alliteration.
• Write your sentence in your guided notes.

6. Metaphor
• An implied comparison between two things
that are very different, but have some similar
characteristics.
• Ex: He is a robot.

7. Metaphor
• John is a tornado. What does this metaphor
say about John?
• Write your answer in your guided notes.

8. Simile
• A comparison between two things using “like”
or “as”
• Ex: Bob is sly like a fox.

9. Simile
• Formulate three sentences using only similes
to describe this shark.
• Write your sentences in your guided notes.

10. Hyperbole
• A figure of speech that uses exaggeration or
extremes to create emphasis
• Ex: This purse weighs a ton.

11. Oxymoron
• Opposite or contradictory ideas or terms that
appear in conjunction
• Ex: seriously funny; deafening silence, sweet
sorrow

12. Oxymoron
• Suddenly the room was filled with a deafening
silence.
• What does “deafening silence” mean?
• Share-pair with your partner.

13. Personification
• Providing human qualities to animals, objects,
or abstract ideas
• Ex: The mud grabbed her feet and pulled her
down.

14. Personification
• Write a sentence that personifies the word
“sun.”
• Write your sentence in your guided notes.

15. Dramatic Irony
• When the audience or reader has a bigger
understanding or more information than the
characters
• Ex: In a horror movie, the main character
walks into a house and the audience knows
the killer is inside.

16. Situational Irony
• When the opposite of what one expects
happens
• Ex: A fire truck on fire

17. Situational Irony
• I go to Disneyland but when I get to the theme
park, it’s closed.
• Is this statement ironic?
• State and justify your answer in your guided
notes.

18. Verbal Irony
• When someone says something but means
the opposite
• Ex: It’s 100 degrees outside and your friend
says, “It’s so hot.” You reply, “No, it’s freezing.”

19. Verbal Irony
• What’s the difference between verbal irony
and sarcasm?
• Share-pair with your partner.

20. Irony
Dramatic Situational Verbal
Sarcasm

21. Figurative Language in Text
“Blank Space” by Taylor Swift
[Verse 1]
Nice to meet you
Where you been?
I could show you incredible things
Magic, madness, heaven, sin
Saw you there and I thought oh my god
Look at that face, you look like my next mistake
Love's a game, wanna play
New money, suit and tie
I can read you like a magazine
Ain't it funny rumors fly
And I know you heard about me
So hey, let's be friends
I'm dying to see how this one ends
Grab your passport and my hand
I could make the bad guys good for a weekend
• In your guided notes, match the lyric with the
correct figure of speech.

22. Why do we use figurative language?
• Everyone stand up and raise your hand
• Find someone, high five them, and share your
answer
• After both people have shared, raise your
hand again
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