Figuring Out

Figurative LanguageCreated by Mrs. D’Amato

Objective: Students will be able to understand and identify seven different kinds

of Figurative Language. Students will use them correctly in their writing.

Figurative language is using figures of speech to be more

effective, persuasive and impactful!

Writers use figurative language to create

images in their reader’s minds and to say things in a fresh and interesting

way!

7 different Kinds of Figurative Language

Alliteration Onomatopoeia

Simile Metaphor Hyperbole

IdiomPersonification

Alliteration Alliteration is a sentence or phrase with

words that start with the same letter or sound.

(Warning: Tongue Twisters!)

Monkeys make major messes.Peter the penguin likes pizza and pickles.

Sally sells seashells by the sea shore.

Onomatopoeia

A word that sounds like the noise it makes!

Your comic strip must…

•Have a title

•Include at least one onomatopoeia word in each box (could be more!)

•display a main character, setting, problem, and resolution

•Be creative!

•Be fully colored and detailed

Activity: Becoming Comic Strip Authors

Simile

When you compare two things using the words like or as

My dog is as smelly as a sock!Her tears ran like rain.

Busy as a beeCute as a button

The ball streaked across the field like a meteor!

Metaphor

To compare two things using the words is or are

He is a night owl.You are my sunshine.His memory is foggy.You are a monkey!

Hyperbole

To describe something in an extremely exaggerated way

We waited in line all day!The extra-point kick missed by a mile!

The phone is ringing off the hook.These shoes are killing me!

This will take forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ODYCs9CS4

What does “literal” mean?

Idiom A common expression that can’t be taken literally, but

the meaning is understood.

It’s raining cats and dogs.

You can’t teach old dog new tricks.

I’m all ears. My blood is boiling.

*Brain Pop!

Matching Idioms!

1. Under the weather 2. Rome wasn’t built in

a day3. Let the cat out of

the bag4. It’s all Greek to me5. Throw in the towel6. Cost an arm and a

leg7. A piece of cake 8. Raining cats and

dogs

A. Told a secretB. Raining heavily C. Feeling sickD. Difficult to

understandE. Very expensive F. Some things

take a lot of time

G. To give upH. Very easy

Idiom Practice

Pick and draw the Literal and figurative meaning of a idiom!

Personification Describing non-human things

using human qualities

The leaves danced in the wind.

The house was drowning after the rain.

The angry sea swallowed the tiny ship.

Create your own personification example!

•Brainstorm and create a personification example! (Ex. My pencil is tired of writing) On a sentence strip, write a personification example. Draw the literal picture to match your personification!

•Be creative!

•Must be large and take up the whole page!

Now let’s get writing!