Figurative language

1. Figurative
language
Sulistya Ningsih Pratiwi (1902050026)
Putri Chairani Yoesra (1902050054)
Riri Yangna Inong (1902050007)
Syahraini Putri (1902050021)
Rizka Nurunnisa (1902050046)
Ryanaldi Kudadiri (2002050014)

2. What is Figurative
Language?
to stimulate a reader’s imagination.
They are asked to think beyond
what they immediately see or feel
and make deeper, more meaningful,
and sometimes surprising
connections
Figurative language is language that
uses words of expression with meaning
that is different from the literal
interpretation. According to Groys
Keraf, figurative language or style is a
way of showing mind through a special
language that shows the soul and the
characteristic of the writer.

3. Types of Figurative
Language
There are
several
types of
figurative
languages
Simil
e
Alliterati
on
Personificati
on
Symbolis
m
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Metaphor

4. Compares two things that are not alike,
without use the words “like” or “as.”
Time is
money
 The warrior has a heart of stone.
 Love is a battlefield.
 Baby, you are my sunshine.
 Chaos is a friend of the
legislator.
 I am drowning in a sea of grief.
 My roommate is going through a
rollercoaster of emotions.
Examples :
Metaphor
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5. Simile
A Lion
A Boy
A comparison between two things using “as”
or “like”
The boy was as brave as a lion in the jungle
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EXAMPLES :
 The assistant was as
busy as a bee when
she was preparing
the podium for the
presidential address
 The new teacher is
as tall as a giraffe.
 The new neighbor is
as curious as a cat;
nothing escapes her
attention.

6. An exaggeration that is created to
emphasize a point or bring out a sense
of humor
Hyperbole
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I would
die for
you
EXAMPLES :
• I have told you a million
times to wash the dishes.
• You are so slender that
the wind can carry you
away.
• The afternoon is so bright
that the sun would have to
wear sunglasses.
• You snore like a freight
train.
used to
exaggerate the
amount of love
that one person
has for another
person

7. The attribution of human characteristics to
non-living objects
Personification
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The sun greeted me when I woke up in the
morning
Sun Huma
n
GreetingsLiving
Creatures

8. The attribution of human characteristics to
non-living objects
Personification
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9. The reiteration of the same initial consonant
sounds in close by words in a sentence
Alliteration
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 Peter piper picked a peck of picked
peppers.
 The dolphin dived deep into the
water.
 Deepika dreamt of a drip drooping
drain in his dream
 From forth the fatal loins of these
two faces

10. The reiteration of the same initial consonant
sounds in close by words in a sentence
Alliteration
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Beowulf (by Seamus Heaney)
He was four times a father, this fighter
prince:
one by one they entered the world,
Heorogar, Hrothgar, the good Halga
and a daughter, I have heard, who was
Onela´s queen,
a balm in bed to the battle-scarred
Swede.

11. Names something or an
action by imitating the
sound associated with
it
Onomato
poeia
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Examples :
• The fireplace heater
hissed and cracked.
• The truck engine
roared as it climbed
the hill.
• The alarm clock
buzzed at the time I
was going to the
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
by Robert Browning
“There was a rustling that
seemed like a bustling
Of merry crowds justling at
pitching and hustling,
Small feet were pattering,
wooden shoes clattering,
Little hands clapping and
little tongues chattering,
And, like fowls in a farm-
yard when barley is
scattering…”

12. Occurs when a word has
its own meaning but
represents something
entirely different
• Using the image of the
American flag to represent
patriotism and a love for one's
country
• Incorporating a red rose in
your writing to symbolize love
• Using an apple pie to
represent a traditional
American lifestyle
• Using a chalkboard to
represent education
• Incorporating the color black
Ah! Sun-flower
By: William Blake
Ah Sun-flower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the
sun;
Seeking after the sweet golden
clime
Where the traveler’s journey is
done;
Symbolism
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13. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
IN POETRY
Ode to a Nightingale – John
Keats
My heart aches, and a drowsy
numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock
I had drunk,..
O for a beaker full of the warm
South,
Full of the true, the blushful
Hippocrene,….
Where beauty cannot keep her
lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them
beyond to-morrow…
White hawthorn, and the
pastoral eglantine;
Fast fading violets cover’d up in
leaves;…
Forlorn! the very word is like a
bell
To toll me back from thee to my
sole self!
Ode to a Nightingale is an
extraordinary poem that
relates life’s suffering to
the briefness of bird’s song.
Here simile is used to
compare abandonment or
loneliness to a bell. In the
line, “for a beaker full of
the warm south”. The poet
has used a metaphor to
compare liquid with south
country weather. In the
verse, “where beauty cannot

14. Tartary- Walter De La
Mare
And in the evening lamps
would shine,
Yellow as honey, red as
wine,
Her bird-delighting, citron
tree
In every purple vale!
In the above lines, the poet uses
the simile explicitly way. Yellow
is compared to honey and red
is to wine. The poet uses
hyperbole for exaggeration,
and for glorifying his dream.
“The evening lamp would shine,
Daffodils – W. W. Worth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales
and hills,
When all at once I saw a
crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the
trees,…
And dances with the daffodils.
In the first line, ‘I wandered
lonely as a cloud’ The poet
compares himself to a cloud by
using a simile. Alliteration is used
in ‘Beside the lake, beneath the
trees, And dances with the
daffodils’. The sounds of ‘b’ and
‘d’ are in repetition. The poet has
personified the daffodils as if the

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