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Literal & Figurative Language. Alex M. Cam M. Gabbi C. The Difference. LITERAL. FIGURATIVE. words, and groups of words, that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component words. words that do not deviate from their defined meaning. Types of figurative meaning. Metaphor. Simile.
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Literal & Figurative Language Alex M. Cam M. Gabbi C.
The Difference LITERAL FIGURATIVE • words, and groups of words, that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component words. • words that do not deviate from their defined meaning.
Types of figurative meaning Metaphor Simile • A comparison using like or as • Ex. The lawyer was as wicked as a snake. • A comparison that does not use like or as • Ex. The lawyer was a snake in the grass.
figurative continued Hyperbole Personification • Giving an inanimate object or an animal human characteristics • Ex. The willow branches waved in the dancing wind as the brook babbled quietly. • An exaggeration • Ex. I’ve told you a billion times to clean your room.
Sometimes it is necessary to examine context The man kicked the bucket
Finding literal language in a poem My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare. • Her eyes shone like the sun • Skin as white as snow • Rosy cheeks • Voice that sounds like a melody • Like a goddess
Find the figurative language in a poem From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone. Then- in my childhood, in the dawn Of a most stormy life- was drawn From every depth of good and ill The mystery which binds me still: From the torrent, or the fountain, From the red cliff of the mountain, From the sun that round me rolled In its autumn tint of gold, From the lightning in the sky As it passed me flying by, From the thunder and the storm, And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view. • Alone by Edgar Allen Poe
Find literal and figurative meaning in songs ***“soldier” by Gavin Degraw*** Listening Activity
Upgrade the diction of these sentences using figurative language Your Turn
John is very fast. The stairs creaked. My computer is slow.
Summary • What is Figurative language? • What is Literal language? • What is the difference between metaphors and similes? • Give and example of personification. • Give an example of a Hyperbole.
Puns • A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
Figure out these visual puns Raise your hand If you are right you get a piece of candy GAME TIME!
