Transcript Figurative Language Activity

Figurative Language
Metaphor
• describes something as something else that
seems unrelated
• Purpose: it shows us what these two things
have in common.
• Example: “A humorous suggestion was made
that she sing the notes on her face…” (51)
Simile
• compares two things using “like” or “as”
• Example: “…as lovely as the June night in her
flowered dress…” (76)
Personification
• gives human qualities to inanimate things
• Example: “As my taxi groaned away…” (81)
“A breeze blew
through the
room, blew
curtains in at
one end and
out the other
like pale
flags…”
p. 8)
A figure had emerged
from the shadow of my
neighbor’s mansion and was
standing with his hands in his
pockets regarding the silver
pepper of the stars” (p. 20).
It had seemed as close as a star to the
moon” (p.93)
…this
fifth
guest’s
shrill
metallic
urgency…”
(p. 15)
“Your place looks like the World’s Fair”
(p. 81).
“This is a valley of ashes—a
fantastic farm where ashes
grow like wheat into ridges
and hills…” (p. 23)
Quiz!
• “A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head
and regarded me with two fine growths of hair
which luxuriated in either nostril” (69).
Personification
“as drunk as a monkey” (76)
simile
“…the red, white, and blue banners
in front of all the houses stretched
out stiff and said tut-tut-tut-tut…”
(74)
personification
“flipped up their noses like goats at
whosoever came near “ 62
simile
:lived like a young rajah” (65
simile
“the world and its mistress 61