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LITERALLY
Literally: words function exactly as defineExamples: The car is blue.
He caught the football.
FIGURATIVELY
Figuratively: Figure out what it means; Figures of Speech.
Examples: I’ve got your back.
You’re a doll.
Simile: Comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”
Examples: Busy as a bee.
Dry as a bone.
Crazy like a fox.
REVIEW
Using “like” or “as” doesn’t make a simile.
A comparison must be made.
Not a Simile: I like elephants.
Simile: He stomped like an elephant.
REMEMBER!
Metaphor: Two things are compared without using “like” or “as.”
Examples: He’s a walking dictionary.
My brother’s a couch potato.
Time is money.
REVIEW
Personification: Giving human traits to
objects or ideas.
Examples: The sad, run-down house.
The moon gave me a mid-night wink.
The flowers drank the rain.
REVIEW
Hyperbole: Exaggerating to show strong
feeling or effect.
Examples: That joke is so old, the last
time I heard it I was riding a
dinosaur.
It was so cold the polar
bears wore jackets.
REVIEW
Understatement: Expression with less strength than
expected. The opposite of hyperbole.
Examples: After barely escaping with his life, he
turned to me and said “well, that was interesting.”
The girl’s dancing was so bad, the only
thing the teacher could say was
“Well, your style is unique.”
REVIEW
Allusion: A reference made to something that is not
directly mentioned.
Examples: I was surprised his nose didn’t grow.
(referring to Pinocchio)
He was a real Romeo with the ladies
(referring to William Shakespeare’s “Romeo
and Juliette”)
ALLUSION
Onomatopoeia: A figure of speech that names a
thing or an action by imitating the
sound associated with it.
Examples: buzz, hiss, flutter, flap, roar, woof,pling, splish-splash, plop, smack,
crash, boom, pow, ring-ring, thud,
ribbit, whoosh, zonk.
ONOMATOPOEIA
Alliteration: A figure of speech that is a phrase that contains the repetition of usually beginning consonant sounds in two or moreneighboring words.
Examples: The wild and wooly walrus waits and wonders when we’ll walk by.
Three grey geese in a green field grazing,grey were the geese and green was thegrazing.
ALLITERATION
Irony: Irony is a tragic twist to what should
have been a happy moment.
Examples: He won the million dollar powerball
and died the next day.
The Titanic was advertised as being
100% unsinkable, but in 1912, the
ship sank on its very first voyage.
IRONY
On a separate sheet of paper…
1. I will put an example of figurative language on the board.
2. You will write whether it is a simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, understatement, allusion, alliteration, onomotapoeia, or irony.
3. You may use your notes.
QUIZ