Transcript Figurative Language

Figurative
Language
Finding more creative
ways to say simple
things
Simile
• A figure of speech
involving a comparison
between unlike things
using like, as, or as
though.
Simile
Example
• He felt so
good; it was
as though he
was on top
of the world.
Metaphor
• A comparison between
essentially unlike things
without a word such as
like or as.
Metaphor
Example
• She was a
cheetah on
the race track;
No runner
could catch
up to her.
Imagery
• An image is language that describes
something that can be seen, heard,
touched, tasted, or smelled.
• The images in a literary work are
referred to, when considered together,
as the work’s imagery.
Imagery
Example
• The sun’s beams
shimmered and
danced on the
ocean’s gentle
waves.
• (sight image)
Personification
• The endowment of
inanimate objects or
abstract concepts with
animate or living qualities.
Personification
Example
• The yellow
leaves played
happily with
each other in
the wind.
Foreshadowing
• Hints at what is to
come in the story.
Foreshadowing
Example
• Whitney and
Rainsford
discuss what
it must feel
like to be
hunted.
Hyperbole
• A figure of speech using
exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Example
• The boring
English class
lasted a
thousand
years.
What is Symbolism?
• Any object, person, experience that means more
than what it is.
• EXAMPLE: A red rose is a symbol of love.
• Miss Vasquez symbolizes everything that is
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What is Mood?
• The emotional quality or atmosphere, that a writer
creates in a story (by use of language, details,
etc).
• EXAMPLES: Scary movies have a certain mood.
• What is the mood of Romeo and Juliet?
What is Theme?
• The overall message that can be applied to life.
• EXAMPLE: The theme of Kaffir Boy is that “an
education can open doors where none seem to
exist”
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What is Personification?
• When you give something that is non-human
human qualities.
• EXAMPLE: The flowers danced in the wind.
What is Conflict?
• The struggle between opposite forces (between
characters, nature, society, fate).
• External Conflict: Struggle with outside forces
• Internal Conflict: Struggle w/in character’s
mind.
• EXAMPLE: Mark Mathabane’s external;
conflict is with his father and his internal conflict
deals with the issue of going to school.
Be Better Writers!
• Use figurative
language whenever
you can.