Figurative Language
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Give an example of an HYPERBOLE in a sentence about 'pizza'!
Ms. Dybas makes the greatest pizza in all of Chicago!
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?
The snow is a white blanket covering the ground.
Metaphor
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
List 3 types of figurative language
simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, allusion, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, euphemism, irony, paradox, anaphora, imagery, apostrophe, synecdoche
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
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?
Identify the figurative language: out of the blue
What an idiom?
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.