-SS recognize the difference between
figurative and literal language.
Ss identify and categorize examples of
figurative language from poetry and prose.
Ss explain true meaning of statements
written in figurative language.
Ss can differentiate between literal and
figurative language.
Ss identify and categorize eight different
types of figurative language.
Ss explain true meaning of statements
written in figurative language.
Figuring it Out
Literal Language: words function exactly
as
defined
The car is blue.
He caught the football.
Figurative Language: figure out what it
means
I’ve got your back.
You’re an angel.
Simile
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron (grade 6)
Idioms
Understatement
Comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”
Examples
The metal twisted like a ribbon.
She is as sweet as candy.
Using “like” or “as” doesn’t make a
simile.
A comparison must be made.
Not a Simile: I like pizza.
(no comparison is made)
Simile: The moon is like a pizza.
Not Simile: I washed the dishes as she dried
them.
Simile: The dishes were as clean as the inside
of
a full bottle of soap.
In the first example, no comparison is made.
In the second, the cleanliness of the dishes is
compared to the inside of a soap bottle.
Two things are compared without using
“like” or “as.”
Examples
All the world is a stage.
The room is trash.
She has a stone heart.
Giving human traits to objects or ideas.
Examples
The sunlight danced.
Water on the lake shivers.
The streets are calling me.
Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect.
Examples
I will love you forever. (no one lives forever)
My house is a million miles from here.
She’d kill me.
The repeating of the same letter or sound,
especially consonant sounds….including
tongue twisters.
Miss Warren was worried when Wendy was
waiting.
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers.
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, “Let us flee!”
“Let us fly,” said the flea;
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
The use of a word to describe or imitate a
natural sound made by an object or action.
Words that sound like what they mean.
pow zoom tweet,
tweet
hiss buzz
An idiom is a phrase that has a meaning different
from the individual words in a dictionary. It is a
group of words that have a special meaning when
used together.
A ‘night owl’ is an idiom.
If we say that Franz is a ‘night owl’, we don’t mean
that he actually is an owl!
He is a person who is active or wakeful at night.
• at a snail’s pace
• send someone packing
• break the ice
• lie low
Lie low
(especially of a criminal) keep out of sight; avoid
detection or attention
Snail's pace
a very slow or sluggish speed or rate
Break the ice
do or say something to relieve tension or get
conversation going
send someone packing
make someone leave in an abrupt way, throw
out, expel
Words or phrases in which contradictory or
opposite terms are used together
baby grand act naturally
jumbo shrimp climb down
adult child
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.
He drew a line as straight as an arrow.
Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are
kings and queens.
The sun was beating down on me.
A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.
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.
Ravenous and savage
from its long
polar journey,
the North Wind
is searching
for food—
Can I have one of your chips?
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
Susan suddenly stretched slowly.
“Crack” went the bat as the pitcher
hit a home run.
1. Simile 10. Onomatopoeia
2. Metaphor
3. Personification
4. Simile
5. Hyperbole
6. Personification
7. Metaphor
8. Metaphor
9. Alliteration
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