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Figurative Language

This document discusses different types of figurative language including similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, and understatement. It provides examples for each type and a short quiz for the reader to identify which type of figurative language is being used. The key aspects covered are that similes use "like" or "as" to compare two things, metaphors make comparisons without those words, personification gives human traits to non-human things, hyperbole exaggerates for effect, and understatement uses less strength than expected.

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Figurative Language

This document discusses different types of figurative language including similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, and understatement. It provides examples for each type and a short quiz for the reader to identify which type of figurative language is being used. The key aspects covered are that similes use "like" or "as" to compare two things, metaphors make comparisons without those words, personification gives human traits to non-human things, hyperbole exaggerates for effect, and understatement uses less strength than expected.

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Figurative Language

Figurative and Literal Language.


- Literally: words function exactly as defined
The car is blue.
He caught the football.
- Figuratively: figure out what it means
I’ve got your back.
You’re a doll.

Figures of Speech
Simile
Comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”
Examples
The metal twisted like a ribbon.
She is as sweet as candy.
Important!

Using “like” or “as” doesn’t make a simile.


A comparison must be made.
Not a Simile: I like pizza.
Simile: The moon is like a pizza.
Metaphor
Two things are compared without using “like” or “as.”
Examples
All the world is a stage.
Men are dogs.
She has a stone heart.
Personification
Giving human traits to objects or ideas.
Examples
The sunlight danced.
Water on the lake shivers.
The streets are calling me.

Hyperbole
Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect.
Examples
I will love you forever.
My house is a million miles from here.
She’d kill me.

Understatement
Expression with less strength than expected.
The opposite of hyperbole.
I’ll be there in one second.
This won’t hurt a bit.
Quiz
1. You will write whether it is an simile, metaphor, personification,
hyperbole, or understatement.
1 .He drew a line as straight as an arrow.

2. Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are kings and queens

3. Can I see you for a second?

4. The sun was beating down on me.


5. A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky

6. I'd rather take baths


with a man-eating shark,
or wrestle a lion
alone in the dark,
eat spinach and liver,
pet ten porcupines,
than tackle the homework,
my teacher assigns.

7. Ravenous and savage


from its long
polar journey,
the North Wind
is searching
for food—

8. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
blood of patriots and tyrants.

9. Can I have one of your chips?

10. I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,


Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise .
Answers

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Understatement
4. Personification
5. Simile
6. Hyperbole
7. Personification
8. Metaphor
9. Understatement
10. Metaphor

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