FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Take notes on your sheet
Jan 01, 2016
METAPHOR• Comparing two things without using “like”
or “as”
• Example: Emily is a rose
• ELVIS: You ain’t nothing but a hound dog• AC/DC: She was a fast machine• Goo Goo Dolls: You’re the closest to Heaven
I’ll ever be
SIMILE
• Comparing two things using “like” or “as”
• Example: She is as quiet as a mouse
• Michael Jackson: She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene
• Pink Floyd: There’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky
PERSONIFICATION
• Giving human-like qualities to objects or things that aren’t alive.
• Example: The moon smiled down at me.
• Saves the Day: As I'm talking my words slip to the floor and they crawl through your legs and slide under the back door
IDIOM
• Expression we use every day that aren’t meant to be taken literally
• Examples: – Boy, it’s raining cats and dogs!– He’s feeling under the weather– That test was a piece of cake– I’ll give him a taste of his own medicine
ONOMATOPOEIA
• When the word is spelled the way it sounds
– Example: sploosh, ker-pow, bam!
– Most Black Eyed Peas Songs • How the beat bang, Boom Boom Pow
• “Like a G6 – Slizzard”
ALLITERATION
• When the beginning of many words in a row sound the same
– The purple and pink pig put pennies in the pool
– Better be a better boy before you botherbetting that you'll bring her back home again.
IRONY
• Saying one thing but meaning another
– Sarcasm
– When deaf Ludwig Beethoven published another great symphony.
FORESHADOWING
• Giving hints of something that’s about to happen
• I was about to walk around the corner when I heard a loud scream (what’s he going to see when he turns the corner?!)
IMAGERY
• Painting a picture using words
The dog barked vs.
As the sun was setting, the fluffy dog cried aloud into the deep hollows of the house
** 5 senses
Three Doors Down: I left my body lying somewhere in the universe in the sands of time.
Oxymoron
• Combination of words that seem contradictory
• Examples: Jumbo shrimp, living dead, deafening silence, bitter sweet, serious joke