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Figurative language can make you look at the world differently; it can heighten your senses. It compares two things in such a way that you find the comparison interesting or even a bit surprising.
Figurative Language
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wide-eyed and wondering while we wait for others to waken
And tongue twisters like:
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter
butter better.
AlliterationAlliteration is the easiest of the examples
of figurative language to spot. It is a repetition of the first consonant sounds in
several words.
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the repetition of the sound of a vowel
Assonance:
"It beats . . . as it sweeps . . . as it cleans!"
"Flash with a rash gimme my cash flickin' my ash Runnin with my money, son, go out with a blast.“ (Busta Rhymes, "Gimme Some More," 1998)
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Hyperbole is an outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point, and can be ridiculous or
funny.
• You snore louder than a freight train.
• It's a slow burg. I spent a couple of weeks there one day.
• I had to walk 15 miles to school in the snow, uphill
• You could have knocked me over with a feather.
HYPERBOLE
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• the world is my oyster
• you are a couch potato
• time is money
• he has a heart of stone
• America is a melting pot
• you are my sunshine
METAPHOR
A metaphor compares two things without using the
words “like” and “as.”
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A simile compares two things using the words “like” or “as.”
• busy as a bee
• clean as a whistle
• brave as a lion
• stand out like a sore thumb
• as easy as shooting fish in a barrel
• as dry as a bone
• as funny as a barrel of monkeys
• they fought like cats and dogs
• like watching grass grow
Simile
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gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas. This can really affect the way the reader imagines things.
This is used in children’s books, poetry, and fictional literature.
• opportunity knocked on the door
• the sun greeted me this morning
• the sky was full of dancing stars
• the vines wove their fingers together to form a braid
• the radio stopped singing and stared at me
• the sun played hide and seek with the clouds
Personification:
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• the burning wood hissed and crackled
• the words: beep, whirr, click, whoosh, swish, zap, zing, ping, clang, bong, hum, boom, munch, gobble, crunch, pow, smash, wham, quack, meow, oink, and tweet.
Onomatopoeia:is the use of words that sound like their meaning, or mimic sounds.
They add a level of fun and reality to writing.
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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"Wordsworth's
A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Imagery: is a type of figurative language that
appeals to the senses.
The descriptions can be about living things or inanimate objects.
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Oxymorona figure of speech in which contradictory terms
appear in a combination
Jumbo shrimp Liquid gas Found missing Plastic glasses Freezer burn Seriously funny Living dead Larger half Alone together Clearly confused Same difference
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Now the big question… why am I teaching you about this stuff?
One word…Poetry
Why is Figurative Language important to poetry?
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What is Poetry?Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of
distinctive style and rhythm.
What are some different kinds of poems?
What are your feelings regarding poetry? Why?