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Figurative Language Power Point

This document defines and provides examples of various types of figurative language. It discusses figurative language, figures of speech, and specific types like metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, antithesis, idiom, and metonymy. Examples are provided for each term to illustrate how non-literal comparisons, exaggerations, or meanings are created through creative language usage. Practice problems are included at the end to test understanding of the different figurative language devices.

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Figurative Language Power Point

This document defines and provides examples of various types of figurative language. It discusses figurative language, figures of speech, and specific types like metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, antithesis, idiom, and metonymy. Examples are provided for each term to illustrate how non-literal comparisons, exaggerations, or meanings are created through creative language usage. Practice problems are included at the end to test understanding of the different figurative language devices.

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Figurative Language

Figurative Language
 Defined:  Language that goes
beyond the normal
meaning of the words
used; it is used to create a
special effect or feeling.
 It compares, exaggerates,
or means something other
than what it first appears
to mean.
Figure of Speech
 A literary device used to create a special
effect or feeling by making some type of
interesting or creative comparison.
 Most common types are: hyperbole,
metaphor, metonymy, personification,
simile, and understatement
Antithesis: an-ti-thE-sis
 Definition  An opposition, or
contrast, of ideas
 Example:  “It was the best of
times, it was the worst
of times, it was the
age of wisdom, it was
the age of
foolishness…” -
Charles Dickens, A
Tale of Two Cities
Hyperbole: hi-pur’ba-li
 Defined:  Is an exaggeration, or
overstatement

 Example:
Idiom: id-I-um
 Defined:  A phrase or expression that
means something different
from what the words actually
say.
 Usually understandable by a
particular group of people.
 Example:  It’s raining cats and dogs.
Metaphor: met-a-four
 Defined:  A comparison of two
unlike things in which
no word of comparison
is used (like, as, than)

 Example:
 He is a real rat.
Metonymy: ma-tone-a-mi
 Defined:  The substituting of one
word for another that
is closely related to it.
 Example:  The pen is mightier
than the sword.
 Pen and sword
represent publishing and
military force,
respectively.
Personification: pur-son-i-fi-k-shun
 Defined:  Literary device in
which the author
speaks of or describes
an animal, object, or
idea as if it were a
person
 Example:  The clouds cried.
Simile: sim-a-lee
 Defined:  A comparison of two
unlike things in which
a word of comparison
(like, as, than) is used
 Example:
 He was tall as a
giraffe.
Practice:
 On the next few slides there will be
examples. Use your notes to try and figure
out which type of figure of speech is being
used.
Practice:
1. You hit the nail on the head.
2. She was quiet as a mouse.
3. My friend is the funniest person in the world.
4. As she walk it sounded like the wind was
whispering.
5. I won’t tell anyone, I’ll keep it in my mental vault.
6. A jumbo shrimp
7. The Whitehouse did not want to comment.

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