Transcript Figurative Language - English at "The Edge"

Figurative Language
Candy for the Reader!
Figurative Language
• Used to create fresh and original
descriptions
• Not literally true
• Help readers picture ordinary
things in new ways
• “Candy for Readers”!
Types
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Alliteration
Allusion
Hyperbole
Idioms
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Metaphors
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Similes
Alliteration
Repetition of the same
initial letter, sound, or
group of sounds in a
series of words.
Alliteration includes
tongue twisters.
http://youtu.be/DGJu6LzUfYM
Allusion
• Indirect reference
to a well-known
person, character,
place, event, or
literary work.
“He was a real Romeo
with the ladies.”
Hyperboye
“I have a ton of homework”
Using
exaggeration to
• express strong
emotion
• make a point, or
• evoke humor
Idioms
Bad Hair Day
Commonly used
expressions that
mean something
different from the
actual words.
Metaphor
• A comparison using no connecting
words
• An extended metaphor carries the
comparison throughout an entire work
or section of a work
Examples of Metaphors
• Computers are the
vehicles of tomorrow.
• All the world’s a
stage.
• Tom was frozen with
fear.
• What a bright idea!
• Love is blind.
Onomatopoeia
• Use of words
that imitate the
sounds
associated with
the objects or
actions they refer
to
http://youtu.be/DrRW7RIr0xMhttp://youtu.be/DrRW7RIr0xM
Personification
Giving human
qualities to
non-humans
http://youtu.be/5EqG5v07R24
Simile
A comparison
between seemingly
unrelated things
using connecting
words such as
– Like
– As
– Than
– Seem
Examples of Similes
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Life is like a box of chocolates
She was as proud as a peacock
I felt as dry as a bone
…as happy as the grass was green
…love is like a ghost
Metaphor or Simile?
http://youtu.be/zNFeAgUzpEQ
Figurative Language...
Is
Candy
for the
Reader!
The End.