Figurative Language

1. Figurative Language
BY JAZMINE STANLEY
COMPUTER SCIENCE, PER. 1
MS. A.B. SMITH

2. Figurative Language
Figurative Language is about speech that is not
meant to be taken literally. It adds drama and
comedy to every day language.

3. Idiom
A group of words whose meanings are different from
the ordinary meaning, often repeated and develop a
new meaning of their own.
EX: That's the ol’ ball’n chain.
Piece of cake.
My Example of an Idiom, is “Its raining cats and
dogs.

4. Hyperbole
A great exaggeration used to emphasize a point, and
is used for expressive or comic relief.
“It's so fluffy, I’m going to die!
“I am so hungry I could eat a whole elephant!”

5. Simile
One thing is compared to another unlike thing by using
(I.E like, as, or resembles)
Ex: you're like a miniature Buddha covered in her hair.
I am going to come at you like a spider monkey.
Winnie The Pooh- I shall fly like a bee up to the honey
tree see?

6. Onomatopoeia
Formation of a word from a sound associated with
what is named, or from nature.
EX: Who! Whoo! whoop! There it is!
From Batman- The words Pow! Wham! Crash!
Eeeyow! Clange! are examples of onomatopoeia.

7. Personification
Speaking of something that is not human as if it had
human abilities and human reactions.
EX: The skeleton took a shower.
Luigi, Lightning and Queen are cars who talk, in real
life we know cars can not talk.

8. References
Ashley Parker, Will Ferrell Figurative Language, YouTube video
retrieved on October 13, 2014
Ms.Meredith, Figurative Language In Movies, YouTube video retrieved
on October 13, 2014