Define Figurative
Figurative Language is when an author expresses information in this way.
What is imaginative?
"You can move a mountain
You can beat the clock
You can move a mountain
You can break rocks"
What is hyperbole?
Figurative language that appeals to our five senses.
What is imagery?
"And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
of load on load of apples coming in."
- Robert Frost
What is sound/hearing?
Not LITERAL
What is figurative?
"Oh honey, I'll walk through fire for you."
What is hyperbole?
A comparison using like or as.
What is simile?
The meaning of "you can't judge a book by its cover"
What is "this person or thing may look bad, but it's good inside?"
"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night,
Like a rich jewel."
- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
What is sight/vision?
Authors use figurative language to elicit these two things from their readers.
What are emotions and feelings?
"The stairs creak as you sleep
It's keeping me awake
That's the house telling you to close your eyes."
What is personification?
A series of words beginning with the same sound.
The meaning of "it costs an arm and a leg"
What is "very expensive?"
"In a prized varnished cabinet, a secret drawer was opened by pushing against the grain of a cleverly turned dovetail joint, and here she kept a diary locked by a clasp."
-Ian McEwan, Atonement
What is touch?
This person believes that students are authors who "paint a picture with words."
Who is Mrs. Nichols?
"My heart's a stereo
It beats for you so listen close"
What is a metaphor?
A phrase that means something completely different from how it sounds; a figurative, non-literal meaning is attached.
What is an idiom?
The meaning of "They were over the moon!"
What is extremely happy and pleased?
"There were strange, rare odors abroad- a tangle of the sea smell and of weeds and damp, new-plowed earth, mingled with the heavy perfume of a field of white blossoms somewhere near."
-Kate Chopin
What is smell?
This helps readers form a picture in their minds about what the author is trying to say.
What is figurative language?
"You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you"
What is irony?
A contrast between what is expected and what actually happens (can be situational, dramatic, or verbal).
What is irony?
The meaning of "actions speak louder than words"
What is believing what people do and not what they say?
"I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold"
-William Carlos Williams
What is taste?