Figurative Writing and Description

Today you will put what we have looked at over the week into a piece of writing.

I will put a reminder of the figurative techniques that you have learnt this

week and before that you can include.

Then you will based your description around a picture like you have done

before – but your main focus needs to be on the 3 figurative techniques we

have revised this week.

Figurative Techniques

Metaphors

Simile

Onomatopoeia

Personification

Alliteration

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia The formation or use of words

such as buzz, murmur or boo that

imitate the sounds associated with

the objects or actions they refer to.

Onomatopoeia Examples of the onomatopoeia:

Clang went the metal chains, as the

elephant lumbered by.

BANG, BANG, BANG the bars went, as

the chimp continuously hit his head

against them.

Alliteration Alliteration is a sentence or phrase that begins with the same letter and sound. Tongue twisters are generally

alliterations.

For example:

The awful aroma arises from the cages.

Simile

Examples of similes:

He grasped the bars tightly, like a snake around a branch.

The chimp banged the floor as loud as a falling tree.

A simile is a figurative language technique

where a comparison is made using like or as.

Remember to keep in context

Metaphor A poetic comparison that does not

use the words like or as.

Examples of metaphors:

The elephant is a desperate prisoner.

The water the crocodile is swimming in is like a soup of nastiness.

Personification

Personification is a figurative language technique in which human

characteristics are given to nonhuman things.

Personification Example of personification:

The awful smell climbed up my nose.

The barbed wire but and gnawed at

the creatures legs.

Hyperbole

Is when one exaggerates.

We use hyperbole all the time when

we want to impress or stress.

Hyperbole

The animals had never seen sunlight.

There were millions of animals suffering

desperately.

For example:

The picture I have chosen is a bit different today.

Make a mind map of each figurative

technique as a bit of a plan.

Also – Make sure you think about what you can see, hear, feel,

emotions etc….

I want you to do a setting description based on this picture. Not a story! A description describing what’s going on and how the singer might be feeling…

Setting Starter: The crowd began to scream. This was the moment he’d been waiting for his whole life…

Read through your work – one thing I have noticed with work being sent to me

is you are missing commas!!!

Send me your work so I can be wowed! Still getting back to people from their

work last week so look out for an email from me!

Keep going through the slides…couple

more bits to do

Question time!

• How do you think the singer is feeling?

• How have you felt in the past when you’ve done something for the first time?

• If you could have a moment of fame, what would you be doing?

Perfect picture!

Think about something that you are good at or something you would like to be brilliant at. Can you draw your moment of fame?