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The document discusses different types of figurative language including imagery, simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and idioms. It provides definitions and examples for each type of figurative language. Literary devices are forms of figurative language that are used in creative works to convey ideas in an indirect yet expressive way. Recognizing figurative language is important for fully understanding poems and other literary works.

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Figurative Language Powerpoint

The document discusses different types of figurative language including imagery, simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and idioms. It provides definitions and examples for each type of figurative language. Literary devices are forms of figurative language that are used in creative works to convey ideas in an indirect yet expressive way. Recognizing figurative language is important for fully understanding poems and other literary works.

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Literary

Devices
Literary devices are
Figurative language!

Recognizing Figurative
Language
The opposite of literal language is figurative
language. Figurative language is language that
means more than what it says on the surface.
It usually gives us a feeling about its subject.
Writers use figurative language almost as
frequently as literal language. When you read,
you must be conscious of the difference.
Otherwise, a poem may make no sense at all.

Recognizing Literal
Language
Ive eaten so much I feel as if I
could literally burst!
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.

What is figurative
language?
Whenever you describe something by

COMPARING it with something else, you are


using figurative language.

8 Types of Figurative Language


Imagery
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Idioms

Imagery
Language that appeals to the senses.

Descriptions of people or objects stated


in terms of our senses

Sight
Hearing
Touch
Taste
Smell

Simile
A figure of speech which involves a direct

comparison between two unlike things,


usually with the words like or as.
Example: The muscles on his brawny arms
are strong as iron bands.

Metaphor
A comparison between two relatively

unlike things using a form of be. The


comparison is not announced by like or
as.
Example: The road was a ribbon wrapped
through the desert.

Alliteration
Repeated letter sounds at the

beginning of words.
Example: She was wide-eyed and wondering
while she waited for Walter to waken.

Personification
A figure of speech which gives the

qualities of a person to an animal, an


object, or an idea.
Example: The wind yells while blowing."
The wind cannot yell. Only a living thing can
yell.

Onomatopoeia
The use of words that mimic sounds.

Example: The firecracker made a loud kaboom!

Hyperbole
An exaggerated statement used to

emphasize a point.

Example: Shes said like on several million


occasions.

Idioms
An idiom or idiomatic expression is an

expression in one language that cannot


be directly translated 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.

Recorder
write top
3 examples
on chart
paper

Door

Door

Your turn!

Director
ensure
everyone
does their
job. Help
where
needed.

1. Read Woodsong
2. In your notebook, create a list of all the examples

of your literary device search for the best


examples you can find
3. Share with your group
4. Choose the top 3 examples
5. Record these top 3 on your chart paper and on

your bookmark
Checker
check
bookmarks
for top 3
examples

Time
Keeper
watch
clock &
remind
group of
time left

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