Figurative Language

Mrs. Williams

Indicators

1. AV4. Identify and understand new uses of words and phrases in text, such as similes and metaphors.

2. RA: L.8. Identify and explain the use of figurative language in literary works, including idioms, similes, hyperboles, metaphors, and personification.

What Is A Similes?

A comparison in which the subject is compared to another subject using the words like or as.

–Ex: The snow was like a blanket.

–Ex: A dresser is like a sunken treasure chest.

What Is A Metaphor?

Is a comparison between two or more unrelated subjects.

–Example: My closet is a time machine.

This takes the form: "the [first subject] is a [second subject]."

What is an Idioms?

Literal meaning is different from the figurative meaning.

–Ex. She let the cat out of the bag.

What is a Hyperbole?

Statements are exaggerated

–Ex: I hit the baseball so far it hit the side of the moon.

–Ex: Their lunchroom stretches to another county.

What Is Personification?

Makes something seem human that isn’t.

–EX: The bear was talking to the little girl.

–Ex: The breeze whispers through the porch screens.

What Is Alliteration?

Alliteration means repeating beginning consonant sounds.

–Ex: She sells seashells on the sea shore.

–Ex: Flutter, squawk and fly

What Is Onomatopoeia?

A grouping of words, that imitates the sound it is describing

–Ex. “Bang” or “click”, or animal such as “moo”, “oink”, “quack”, or “meow”.