Symbols

Person

Place

Can symbolize pride, strength, control, leadership

Can symbolize freedom, pride, culture

Can symbolize peace, equality, bravery, quiet strength

Can symbolize peace, religion, right and wrong

A symbol is any person, place or thing that has a deeper meaning.

Thing

What a FIGURE!!!!

Figurative Language – are words, phrases and sentences used to create strong descriptions in writing.

Examples• Simile (SIH-muh-lee): a comparison between two or more

things using the words like or as.

• Example: "I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti."

• Metaphor (MET-uh-for): a comparison between two or more things that doesn't use the words like or as.

• Example: "You are an ant, while I'm the lion."

• Alliteration (uh-LIT-er-AY-shuhn): a phrase with a string of words all beginning with the same sound.

• Example: "Five freaky females finding sales at retail."

• Hyperbole (hie-PER-buh-lee): an exaggeration.

• Example: "I fought a million rappers in an afternoon in June."

Personification, (per-son-if-ih-KAY-shon): giving an animal or object human-like characteristics.• Example: "Alright, the sky misses the sun at night."

Paradox (PARE-uh-docks): a statement that seems untrue, that seems to contradict itself.

• Example: "The poorest man is the richest, and the rich are poor."

• Symbol (SIM-bull): something that stands for something else (often something more abstract).

• Example: In Tupac Shakur's song Me and My Girlfriend, the "girflfriend" referenced is actually his gun.

• Assonance (ASS-uh-nince): the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyme.

• Example: "Hear the mellow wedding bells." - Edgar Allen Poe"

•Onomatopoeia (ON-uh-maht-uh-PEE-uh): a word that imitates the sound it is describing.

• Example: "Out of reach, I pull out with a screech."

• Apostrophe (uh-POS-troh-fee): a figure of speech that addresses (talks to) a dead or nonpresent person, or an object.

• Example: "O, King Vitamin cereal, you blow my mind!"•

Imagery (IM-aj-ree): a very general term that encompasses nearly any description of something that conjures an image, sound, taste, smell or feeling to mind. In other words a literal or concrete representation of a sensory experience or of an object that can be known by one or more senses.

• Example: "Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells" - T.S. Eliot

•Metonymy (met-TON-im-ee): a figure of speech that replaces the literal thing with a more vivid, but closely related thing or idea.

• Example: Instead of saying "give me your attention," you could say "give me your ear."•

Understatement (UHN-der-stayt-ment): the opposite of hyperbole, an understatement makes something that is a big deal seem not very important. It's often used for humor.

• Example: "The boat had been ripped apart by the storm and now a dozen hungry sharks began circling the captain. 'This isn't great,' he told his wife."

Testing your knowledge• 4 “cause I’m coming at you like a dark horse.” • (simile)• 5”The Sultan of swat, the king of crash, the

colossus of clout.” • (alliteration )• 6 “The wind is howling like a swirling storm

inside.”• (simile)• 7 “That is the voice of an angel.” • (metaphor”• 8 “Your voice is like a combination of Fergie

and Jesus.”• (simile)• 9 “That boy is like a disease.” • (simile)• 10 “He is like a curse, like a drug .”• (simile)

• Watch the video and try to identify the literary device that is used

1”Baby you’re a song you make me want to roll my windows down…” (metaphor)2 “You, with your voice like nails.” (Simile)3 “He is so fluffy I am gonna die!” Hyperbole)

• 23. “Or maybe it’s the party talking or the chocolate fondue.”

• (personification)• 24. “Love is an open door.” • (metaphor)• 25. “This girl is on fire.” • (metaphor)• 26. “Life is your restaurant and I am your maitred’i “• (metaphor)• 27. “The only monster her is the gambling monster

that has enslaved your mother.” • (metaphor)• 28. “My head’s under water, but I am breathing fine.” • hyperbole)• 29. “My head spinning.”• (hyperbole)• 30. “As fragile as a flower.” • (simile)• 31. “…still a sapling, just a sprout.”• alliteration• 32 “Please they will eat you up alive.” • (hyperbole)• 33. “I get 10,00 hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs as

they try to teach me how to dance” • (personification)• 34. I am covering my ears like a kid.”• (simile)• 35. “Put our hands up like the ceiling can’t hold us.” • (simile)•

• 11.“He’s a good time cowboy Casanova.” • (metaphor)• 12. “He looks like a cold drink of water.” • (simile)• 13. “But he is candy coated mystery.” • Metaphor• 14 “He is the devil in disguise … a snake with blue

eyes.” • (metaphor)• 15.“Sunshine she’s here you can take a break.”• (personification)• 16.“Here comes bad news talking this and that.” • (personification)• 17.“I’m a hot air balloon that can go out to space.” • (metaphor)• 18.“If you feel like a room without a roof.”• (simile)• 19. “Life is like a box of chocolates.” • simile)• 20. “ I can eat about a million of these.” • hyperbole• 21. “I can hold you down like I am giving lessons in

physics.” • (Simile)• 22. “ All my life has been a series of doors in my face” • (metaphor)