Figurative Language

Figurative Language

by:Mrs.O. Colunga

Author's Craft

Anything done on purpose by a writer to make their writing look or sound a certain way. Craft is the art of writing.

SSIFT POETRY ANALYSIS

• Structure

• Sound Devices

• Imagery

• Figurative Language

• Theme

Structure

• How is it build?

• How many stanzas?

• How many lines?

• Shape? Length?

• Single Words/Design

• Punctuation, . ! ! "--" -

Sound Devices

• End Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Meter

Imagery (Sensory Details)

• Sight

• Sound

• Taste

• Smell

• Touch

Figurative Language Tools:

• I-Idioms

• S-similes

• H-hyperbole

• A-alliteration

• M-metaphor

• P-personification

• O-onomatopoeia

Theme

• Lesson

• Message

• Moral

• Theme

• (LMMT)

• What lesson did the reader learn?

CPQ: What is Figurative Language?

What strategy to we use?

What is Figurative Language?

when words mean something other than their literal (written) meaning

Why is Figurative Language important?

• Authors use it to help readers form images in their minds.

• Figurative Language helps readers understand something unfamiliar with something familiar.

• Figurative Language is found in fictional stories, dramas, and poetry.

Just How Big Was He?

Let’s pretend for a minute that you have an adventure on the way home from school. You are chased by a rather large dog who seems really hungry and grouchy. You run in the house, slam the door, and begin to tell your mom about your scary walk (or run) home from school.

Just How Big Was He?

• You begin telling her that it was a big dog.

• She asks- How big?

• What your mom is asking for is some help visualizing the dog that was chasing you.

• She wasn't there, so she wants you to add some more description to help her get a picture in her mind.

Imagery is important

•  When writers add details to help readers form mental pictures, they are using imagery.

• Good writers and good story tellers do this by adding figurative language to their descriptions to help readers or listeners form images in their minds.

• You could use a simile and say that the dog was like Mr. Green’s mastiff at the end of the block.

Personification

• It has the root word "person"

• Using human qualities or characteristics to describe nonhuman things.

• Things act/behave like humans.

• Used to create mental images.

Let's see how much you have learned

Ready?? Here we go...

Multiple Choice

What is Personification?

• The repetition of usually consonant sounds.

• giving something human qualities

• Big exaggeration

Multiple Choice

What is a Hyperbole?

• Big exaggeration

• Comparing two unlike things

• A statement that doesn't really mean what is being said.

Multiple Choice

The sun played hide and seek with the clouds.

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• personification

Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language is this: The leaves danced in the wind.

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

An obvious exaggeration

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

Multiple Choice

Using human qualities or characteristics to describe non human things

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

• simile