This document discusses literal and figurative language. Literal language directly means what is said, while figurative language uses comparisons to convey additional meanings or ideas. Examples are given of different types of figurative language, including similes that compare two unlike things using "like" or "as," and metaphors that make implicit comparisons. The examples are meant to create mental pictures or bring life to inanimate objects to help readers understand familiar things in new ways.

1. Prepared by:
Cruz, Lavinia L.
and
Ste. Felipe, Ruby Ann V.

2. LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE

3. It may come in different
forms.

4. Literal language gives the
direct or factual meaning of
words, phrases, or sentences.

5. Associated with
denotation.

6. To mean literally means to
mean exactly.

7. It can be a personal fact
or a general fact or
conventional knowledge.

8. I have a best friend.

9. #PersonalFact

10. Max goes to school to
study.

11. #PersonalFact
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12. Bulacan belongs to
Region III.

13. #GeneralFact
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14. There are 7 continents on
Earth.

15. #GeneralFact
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16. Penguins don’t fly, they are
great swimmers.

17. #ConventionalFact
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18. It requires us to use our
imagination.

19. It does not just present
the facts but it conveys
another idea.

20. Associated with
connotation.

21. Writers use figurative
language in order to make
the readers see familiar
things in a new way.

22. It promotes semantic
ambiguity.

23. Bernie looks like a grizzly
bear.

24. Bernie does not exactly look like a
huge mammal with grown hair all over
the body. But it only emphasizes the
size of the bear almost as close to
Bernie’s.

25. This is to create a mental
picture for comparison.

26. Rick is a walking
dictionary.

27. Rick is not actually a dictionary
blessed with the luxury of having a
feet. It only describes Rick’s
knowledge as a person in direct
comparison to an object.

28. Jas cried an ocean of tears
after an heartbreak.

29. Jas doesn’t actually capable of crying
an ocean of tears. It is just used to
convey an intensified action or
feeling done or felt by the subject in
the sentence.

30. The grass are dancing in
the cold breeze of
December.

31. The grass are not actually capable of
dancing. It is only meant to bring life
to inanimate objects by giving human
attributes to them.

32. THE END