Figurative Language

Figurative Language • Alliteration – repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of a word • Anaphora – repetition of the same word at the beginning of several clauses or verses. • Antithesis - Putting contrasting ideas in phrases • Apostrophe – breaking off to address some absent person or thing, an object, or imaginary character.

Figurative Language • Alliteration • Anaphora • Antithesis • Apostrophe • "You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife.“ • "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.“ • "I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name. I don't like your jerk-off face. I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off.“ • "Hello darkness, my old friendI've come to talk with you again . . .."

Figurative Language • The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.“ • "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun.“ • "You're easy on the eyesHard on the heart.“ • "Blue Moon, you saw me standing aloneWithout a dream in my heartWithout a love of my own."

Figurative Language • AssonanceSimilar vowel sounds within words that are neighbors. • Chiasmus The second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. • EuphemismThe substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit

Figurative Language-Matching • Euphemism • Assonance • Antithesis • Chiasmus • "Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.“ • "You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.“ • Dr. House: I'm busy.Thirteen: We need you to . . .Dr. House: Actually, as you can see, I'm not busy. It's just a way to say "get the hell out of here.“ • Everybody doesn’t like something, but nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee.

Figures of Speech-Identification • "In the end, the true test is not the speeches a president delivers; it’s whether the president delivers on the speeches.“ • "It beats as it sweeps as it cleans.“ • "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.“ • "Wardrobe malfunction"

Figurative Language • HyperboleAn exaggerated statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or stronger effect. • IronyThe use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is the opposite.

Figurative Language - Matching • Alliteration • Hyperbole • Anaphora • Irony • Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room • Good men are gruff and grumpy, cranky, crabbed, and cross • I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I want her toaerobicize. • Your father is so low he has to look up to tie his shoes

Figurative Language - Identification • Your mama's hair is so short she could stand on her head and her hair wouldn't touch the ground • Great events are greeted with gleeful cheers. • English is easy to learn if you can spell the words. • Get to school. Get to class. Get to work or be last.

Figurative Language • LitotesAn understatement in which the positive is illustrated by showing the opposite is wrong. MetaphorA comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common

Figurative Language - Matching • Euphemism • Litotes • Chiasmus • Metaphor • We are not amused • Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you • She went to the little ladies room. • The streets were a furnace.

Figurative Language - Identification • Her eyes were stars burning brightly. • This is not pre-school, elementary, or middle school. • Is it quiet in here, or am I quiet in here. • He had an accident in his pants.

Figurative Language • Metonymy One word or phrase is substituted for another that has a similar meaning; also, describing something indirectly by referring to things around it • OnomatopoeiaThe use of words that imitate sounds • Oxymoron Contrasting or contradictory words appear side by side

Figurative Language - Matching • Irony • Oxymoron • Metonymy • Onomatopoeia • The suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings • The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep • He is as smart as a soap dish • "Plink, plink, fizz, fizz"

Figurative Language - Identification • The White House asked the television networks for air time on Monday night • He asked for his money back but he got in for free. • I'm getting married in the morning!Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime • Original Copy

Figurative Language • ParadoxA statement that appears to contradict itself. • Personification Inanimate object or ideas are given human qualities or abilities • PunA play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words

Figurative Language - Matching • Metonymy • Pun • Personification • Paradox • The sun reaches down with bright hands to warm her face. • The pen is stronger than a sword. • Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana • War means peace

Figurative Language - Identification • In Love there is always hate. • You said we should be able to read our text so that was why I was looking at my cell phone. • War holds a bloody flag and calls it glory. • Lend me your ear.

Figurative Language • SimileA stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two basically different things that have some similar qualities. • SynecdocheA part of something is used to represent the whole • UnderstatementA writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is

Figurative Language - Matching • Oxymoron • Understatement • Simile • Synecdoche • 9/11 • Jumbo Shrimp • My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain • I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain

Figurative Language