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Figurative Language: Figuring It Out

The document discusses different types of figurative language including similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, and understatement. It provides examples for each type and a short quiz at the end to test understanding. Key points made 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 to emphasize feelings, and understatement expresses something with less strength than expected.

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Figurative Language: Figuring It Out

The document discusses different types of figurative language including similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, and understatement. It provides examples for each type and a short quiz at the end to test understanding. Key points made 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 to emphasize feelings, and understatement expresses something with less strength than expected.

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Figurative Language

Figuring it Out
Figurative and Literal Language
Literally: words function exactly as defined
The car is blue.
He kicked the ball.

Figuratively: figure out what it means


Her teeth is as white as a pearl.

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

My mother is a teddy bear.

He is a lion in the fight.

Life is a box of chocolates.


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.


Personification
Expression with less strength than
expected.
The opposite of hyperbole.

I’ll be there in one second.

This won’t hurt a bit.


Quiz
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 an simile,
metaphor, personification, hyperbole,
or understatement.
3. You can use your notes.
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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