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Enhancing Your Writing: Figurative Language Techniques

Learn how figurative language such as personification, hyperbole, and symbolism can elevate your writing, making it more vivid and engaging. Discover examples and exercises to incorporate these techniques effectively.

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Enhancing Your Writing: Figurative Language Techniques

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  1. Figurative Language Continued Personification, Hyperbole, and Symbolism

  2. It allows the reader to visualize what the writer is saying. • It adds interest and color to a written piece Review: Why is it important to use figurative language in our writing?

  3. In 9th grade and previous years, you’ve learned to define and identify various types of figurative language. • Now it’s time for you to consciously incorporate figurative language into your own writing to make it much more powerful.

  4. Giving human characteristics to things, animals, or ideas. • Examples: The pencil jumpedout of my hand. Blind justice. Personification

  5. The ancient car groaned into third gear. • The cloud scattered rain throughout the city. • The tropical storm slept for two days. More Examples

  6. Hint: choose a noun and add a verb next to it. Take 2 minutes to Think of your own examples

  7. *an exaggeration • *used to heighten effect. It is not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasize a point. • Example: She’s said so on several million occasions. Hyperbole

  8. I could sleep for a year. • This box weighs a ton. • I've told you a million times not to exaggerate. More Examples

  9. Yo momma’s so fat, she had to go to Sea World to get baptized. • Boooooooom! Yo Momma Hyperbole Example

  10. Create your own hyperbole • Hint: Think of one that you can use in your Soldier’s Journal. Your turn…

  11. The practice of representing things with symbols; giving meanings to objects, events, or relationships. • Examples: • Apple – Teacher • Hearts – Love Symbolism

  12. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost • We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar Let’s read the poems on the handout to identify the symbolism

  13. Go back to what you’ve written in your WWI Journal. • Add Personification to two journals. • Add Hyperbole to two journals. Let’s work on our project!

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