Figurative Language.pptx

1. Figurative
Language
Part 1
Communication ATL
Assessment

2. Bell Work
Identify whether the examples in the game include figurative or literal meaning.
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3. Literal vs. Figurative Language
Literal Language – You say exactly what you mean. You make no comparison,
and you do not exaggerate or understate the situation.
Figurative Language – You DON’T say exactly what you mean. You DO
compare, exaggerate, and understate the situation. You use similes,
metaphors, hyperboles, and other figures of speech to make your writing
more exciting.
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4. Figurative or Literal
1. Grant always turns in his homework.
2. The water was rising in the river because of the rain.
3. Her teeth are like stars because they come out at night.
4. When she sings her voice is like velvet.
5. Half of the class did not complete the assignment.
6. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
7. Mike was so angry that steam was coming out of his ears.
8. The zebras cried when the wise old elephant died.
9- I’ve told you a million times to clean up your room.

5. Seven Types of Figurative Language
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron
• Idioms
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6. Alliteration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJmQr8IUxR4

7. Onomatopoeia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
b_yqH1Z2BI8

8. Oxymoron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
GjML-jKbhOs

9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUT_WSavAC8

10. Simile
• comparing two unlike things using the
words “like” or “as”.
Her eyes were like stars.
Susan is as gentle as a
kitten.

11. Warning!
• “Like” and “as” don’t always make similes.
• A comparison must be made.
• Not Simile: I washed the dishes as she dried them.
• Simile: The dishes were as clean as the inside of a full
bottle of soap.
In the first example, no comparison is made.
• In the second, the cleanliness of the dishes is compared
to the inside of a soap bottle.

12. Metaphor
• comparing two unlike things without
using like or as. Calling one thing,
another. Saying one thing is
something else.
He’s a lion when he fights.
Her eyes were sparkling
emeralds.

13. Personification
• giving human characteristics to
things that are not human.
The angry flood waters
slapped the house.
The sun smiled down on us.

14. Hyperbole
• an exaggeration so dramatic, no one
could believe it; overstate to
emphasize a point.
This bag weighs a ton!
I’ve told you a million
times to clean up your
room!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
kuzWLDWm6Zs

15. Practice Time
• The coming slides have examples for the
previously explained figures of speech:
1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Hyperbole
4. Personification
5. Oxymoron
6. Alliteration
7. Onomatopoeia
8. Idioms

16. Identify the figure of speech used here!
• Let it be forgotten as a flower is
forgotten,
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17. Answer
• This is a simile because it compares a
thing that should be forgotten to a
flower.

18. Identify the figure of
speech used here!
• Your hand was honey-comb to heal,
Your voice a web to bind.

19. Answer
• This is a metaphor because the
subject’s hand was compared to honey-
comb and the subject’s voice was
compared to a web. The speaker did
not use like or as.

20. Identify the figure of
speech used here!
• The brooks (brook: a small stream)
laugh louder when I come,
The breezes madder play.

21. Answer
• This is personification because
the brooks are given the ability to
laugh and the breezes are given the
ability to play.

22. Identify the figure of
speech used here!
And there will I keep you forever,
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And molder in dust away!

23. Answer
• This is hyperbole because the speaker
is exaggerating how long he will keep
the person. You can’t add a day to
forever without exaggerating.

24. Identify the figure of
speech used here!
• Freedom weeps, Wrong
rules the land, and waiting
Justice sleeps.

25. Answer
This is personification because freedom is
given the ability to weep, wrong is given the
ability to rule, and justice is given the
ability to sleep.
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26. Identify the figure of
speech used here!
● Good night, good night! parting is such sweet
sorrow,

27. Answer
Oxymoron
In perhaps the most well-known oxymoron in
literature, Juliet describes her feelings about Romeo
leaving her presence as “sweet sorrow.”
Shakespeare’s use of oxymoron indicates that
Juliet’s “sorrow” and sadness at the thought that
Romeo must part from her is also “sweet” and
pleasant. She feels sadness knowing she must say
good night to Romeo. However, she lovingly
anticipates seeing him again which is a pleasant
feeling.

28. Identify the figure of
speech used here!
Well, I see I was up a stump – and up it good.
Providence had stood by me this fur all right,
but I was hard and tight aground now. I see it
warn’t a bit of use to try to go ahead – I’d got
to throw up my hand. So I says to myself,
here’s another place where I got to risk the
truth.

29. Answer
Idiom
For example, in this passage, Huckleberry Finn
narrates that he is “up a stump.” This is an idiom
reflecting that Huck is not literally up a stump, but
rather he has found himself in a dilemma and
challenging situation. Mark Twain’s use of this idiom
is effective in that the figurative language conjures
an image of physical predicament to underscore
Huck’s circumstantial predicament.

30. Identify the figure of
speech used here!
Now the leaves are falling fast,
Nurse’s flowers will not last,
Nurses to their graves are gone,
But the prams go rolling on.

31. Answer
Alliteration
These lines occur in the poem of W. H. Auden’s “Autumn
Song.” They show the use of alliteration such as the sound
of /f/ occurs in the initials of “falling fast” and the second is
“graves are gone” where /g/ sound repeats in two words
interjected with a helping verb. In both cases, the sounds
make both of these lines melodious, musical, and rhythmic.
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32. Identify the figure of
speech used here!
“The moan of doves in immemorial
elms,
And murmuring of innumerable
bees…”

33. Answer
Onomatopoeia
They reflect the sounds of the
dove and the bees.

34. Group 1
Identification
Questions
Group 2
Identify the figure of
speech and justify your
answer.
Group 3
Read the poems in
the pack, and answer
the questions.
Differentiated Task