Figurative Language
Simile or Metaphor
Simile or Metaphor
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"
What is personification?
Give an example of an HYPERBOLE in a sentence about 'pizza'!
Ms. Dybas makes the greatest pizza in all of Chicago!
Anaphora
True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.
True
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds!
What is Onomatopoeia
the repetition of words at the start of series of lines in a poem is.....
Anaphora
This type of figurative language is a form of expression particular to a specific person or group of people, but it is NOT LITERAL.
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
BOOM! CUCKOO! DING! & BANG! What is the use of these words called in figurative language?
ONOMATOPOEIA
The poem, "Why We Play Basketball" uses the word hate a lot. This is an example of...
p. 62
Repitition
List 5 types of figurative language
simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, irony, paradox, imagery
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.
Hyperbole.
Identify the figurative language: I could sleep forever!
Hyperbole
What is the anaphora in the poem, "She Had Some Horses" p.84
She had horses
Why do we use figurative language in our writing?
to help the reader better understand what we are trying to describe and make it more entertaining
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
metaphor
"Wonderous words wisp with the force of a whip, the worth of my life I say with the passion of many moons." This is an example of...?
alliteration
I am Messi on the field
I am a warm hug on a rainy day
I am a dog fetching his favorite toy
This poem is an example of...
Anaphora
What is the difference between LITERAL language and FIGURATIVE language.
Literal language means exactly what is said while figurative language has different meanings than the words that are used.