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In order to understand
Figurative Language….
You have to understand Literal Language….
“I’ve eaten so much I feel as if I could literally burst!”
 OBVIOUSLY--In this case, the person is not using the word
“literally” in its true meaning. Literal means "exact" or "not
exaggerated." By pretending that the statement is not
exaggerated, the person stresses how much he has eaten.
Literal language is language that
means exactly what is said.
Most of the time, we use
literal language.
Recognizing Figurative Language
 The opposite of literal language
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is figurative language.
Figurative language uses
figures of speech to convey
unique images and create
some sort of special effect or
impression.
 Figurative language is
language that means more than
what it says on the surface.
 A “figure of speech” is an
intentional deviation from the
ordinary usage of language.
Types of Figurative Language
 Imagery
 Metonymy
 Simile
 Synecdoche
 Metaphor
 Assonance
 Alliteration
 Consonance
 Personification
 Ellipsis
 Onomatopoeia
 Syllepsis
 Hyperbole
 Chiasmus
 Understatement
 Euphemism
 Idioms
Personification
 A figure of speech that gives
the qualities of a person to an
animal, an object, or an idea.
Example:
“The wind yells while blowing.“
John Milton calls time “the subtle thief
of youth.”
Homer refers to “the rosy fingers of
dawn.”
Onomatopoeia
 The use of
words that
mimic sounds.
Example:
The firecracker
made a loud
ka-boom!
Let’s take a moment to practice
identifying onomatopoeias and
personification!
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Evocative Language
Make your argument more effective!
We’re going to play a little game to help us better understand evocative and
figurative language. I’m going to divide you up in pairs. Each partner group
will be given an envelope with 23 strips of paper in it. Three of those strips
are labels that say “Active Verbs,” “Onomatopoeia,” and “Personification.”
Place these labels across the top of your desk.
On each of the other 21 strips of paper is written sentences from “There Will
Come Soft Rains.” With your partner, read each sentence, then determine
whether the sentence is an example of an active verb, onomatopoeia, or
personification, then place each sentence under the appropriate label.
Active Verb
Your desk
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Evocative Language-KEY
Personification
•It quivered at each sound, the
house did.
Active Verbs
•But no doors slammed, no carpets
took the soft tread of rubber heels.
•Until this day, how well the house •Doors sprang tightly shut, but the
windows were broken by the heat
had kept its peace.
•The front door recognized the
dog voice and opened.
and the wind blew and sucked upon
the fire.
•An aluminum wedge scraped them
•There, down tubes which fed into into the sin, where hot water whirled
the cellar, it was dropped into the them down a metal throat which
digested and flushed them away to
sighing vent of an incinerator
the distant sea.
which sat like evil Baal in a dark
corner.
•The house lights flashed, water
pumps shot water from the ceilings.
•The fires rushed back into every
closet and felt of the clothes hung
there.
Onomatopoeia:
•In the living room the voice-clock
sung, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time
to get up, time to get up, seven
o’clock!
•…and in the study a click.
•Somewhere in the walls, relays
clicked, memory tapes glided under
electric eyes.
•They thudded against chairs,
whirling their mustached runners,
kneading the rug nap, sucking
gently at hidden dust.
•A dog whined, shivering, on the front •And the rain tapped on the empty
porch.
house, echoing.
•But the tables were silent and the •Animals took shape: yellow giraffes, •And there was the patter of okapi
blue lions, pink antelopes, lilac
cards untouched.
feet…
panthers convorting in crystal
•At ten o’clock the house began to substance.
die.
•The dog frothed at the mouth, lying
at the door, sniffing, its eyes turned to
•If a sparrow brushed a window,
the shade snapped up.
Imagery
Language that
appeals to the
senses.
A description of a
• Sight
• Taste
• Hearing • Smell
• Touch
sensory
experience
Simile
 A figure of speech which involves an
explicit comparison between two unlike
things, usually with the words like or as.
like, as, resembles, than.
Example:
The muscles on his
brawny arms are
strong as iron bands.
Metaphor
 A figure of speech which involves an
implied comparison between two
relatively unlike things by saying that
one IS the other is called a metaphor.
Example:
The road was a ribbon
wrapped through the
dessert.
Implied Metaphor
 a kind of metaphor lacking the actual “to be” verb (is,
am, are, was, were and other such forms of the verb “to
be”)
What is implied here about the speaker’s love?
Oh, my love has petals and sharp thorns.
Oh, I placed my love into a long-stemmed vase
And I bandaged my bleeding thumb.
And here, what is implied about the city and the
subway?
The subway coursed through the arteries of the city.
Alliteration
 Repeated consonant
sounds occurring at the
beginning of words or
within words.
Example:
She was wide-eyed
and wondering while
she waited for
Walter to waken.
Hyperbole
 An intentional exaggerated
statement used for dramatic
effect. It is not used to
mislead the reader, but to
emphasize a point.
Examples:
You’ve only told me that about a
million times today!
Your predicament saddens me so
much that I feel a veritable flood
of tears coming on.
Understatement
 The intentional understatement
is also used for dramatic effect
“Thank you for this Pulitzer Prize:
I am pleased.”
 Another kind of understatement
called Litotes occurs when a
negative is used to state a
positive:
“When I won the Pulitzer Prize, I
was not unhappy.”
Idioms
 An idiom or idiomatic expression refers
to an expression in one language that
cannot be matched or directly translated
word-for-word in another language.
Example:
"She has a bee in her bonnet,"
meaning "she is obsessed,"
cannot be literally translated
into another language word
for word.
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Figurative Language Resources
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Eye on Idioms (Online PPT)
Paint by Idioms (Game)
Alliteration or Simile? (Quiz)
Similes and Metaphors (PPT)
The Search for Similes, Metaphors, and
Idioms (PPT)
 Alliteration (PPT)
 Onomatopoeia (PPT)
 Personification (PPT)
 Hyperbole (PPT)
 Idioms (PPT)
 Simile (PPT)