Figurative Language

1. Figurative Language

2. Alliteration • Definition: The repetition of a letter or a sound at the beginning of several words • Ex. - You’ll never put a better bit of butter on your knife. • Ex. – It’s good to look at the sunny side of the spectrum.

3. Onomatopoeia • Definition: The use of words to imitate sounds • Ex. The bee is buzzing in my ear. • Ex. Listen to the fire crackle in the dark.

4. Simile • Definition: Comparing two things together using the words “like” or “as” • Ex. Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get. • That basketball player is as tall as the Jolly Green Giant!

5. Metaphor • Definition: Comparing two things, saying one is the other. Does NOT use “like” or “as” • Ex. Your room is a pigsty! • All the world is a stage, and the men and women are merely players

6. Simile or Metaphor? • The wind from the open window blew the papers to the floor like fall leaves. • Winter had come, like a quiet lullaby that lulled Autumn to sleep. • The roar of the car’s engine was my morning alarm. • Tom ran down the field, untouched-a guided missile locked onto his target. • Grandma’s hat bloomed like a garden in early spring. • The runner was a thoroughbred, clearing the hurdles with ease.

7. Similes and Metaphors • Time for Brain Pop

8. Hyperbole • Def: Hyperbole is an exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the statement is true. • Ex. I called you a MILLION times this weekend! • He nearly died laughing at the joke.

9. The Ram On my way to Hampton, One fine autumn day, I met the biggest ram That was ever fed on hay. This ram was fat in fore and aft, He stood ‘bout ten yards high, The wool upon his back, Reached way up to the sky. The space between his horns, Was so far no one could reach, He could probably eat a mountain, But I handed him my peach.

10. I am so hungry I could eat a horse! What does this mean in plain language??

11. I am starved!

12. His face got beet red, and I thought he would explode! What does this mean in plain language?

13. He got really mad!

14. My banana split has whipped topping a mile high on it. What does this mean in plain language?

15. The banana split has a lot of whipped topping on it.

16. Personification • Definition: Personification is a figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object. • Ex. The flowers danced in the breeze. • The wind shouted through the night.

17. The Grasshopper and the Elephant Way down south where bananas grow, A grasshopper stepped on an elephant’s toe. The elephant said with tears in his eyes, “Pick on somebody your own size.”

18. The camera hates me. What does this mean in plain language?

19. I take an awful picture!

20. My air conditioner is wheezing with pain. What does this mean in plain language?

21. My air conditioner sounds broken.

22. The garments performed a gypsy dance on the clothesline. What does this mean in plain language?

23. The garments on the clothesline moved in the wind.

24. Idiom • Definition: a phrase whose meaning can’t be determined by reading the words literally • Ex. It’s raining cats and dogs. • By the skin of your teeth

25. Cliches

26. Idioms • Time for Brain Pop

27. Stanza • A group of lines in a poem that are similar in length and pattern and separated by spaces

28. Rhyme Scheme • Definition: The rhyming pattern of a poem • Ex. • sunlight guides the way - a as I head home this day - ato my wife and child - b where life is calm and never wild - b

29. Tone • The author’s attitude towards the audience and the subject

30. Mood • Def. The feeling the reader gets from reading something • Ex. – Maniac Magee- mood is happy and hopeful • Roses are red, violets are blue…..love

31. Imagery • Def: descriptive language that appeals to the 5 senses • Ex. “The bell quietly jingled as the door opened” • “The warm, chocolate smell of cookies baking drifted from the oven…”