Idioms and Analogies Review

Idioms and Analogies

By Jon Sullivan

In this lesson:

Make sure you:

​1. Read each slide carefully before attempting the questions.

2. Answer the questions to the best of your ability.

3. Read the follow-up slides carefully, even if you got the question correct.​

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Literal Language

​Definition-

Taking words in their usual or most basic sense.

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Example: Ride a bike.​

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When language means exactly what it says... if you tell someone to ride a bike with the intent of getting them to ride a bike would be a very literal statement. No hidden meaning whatsoever.

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Metaphors, similes, idioms, personification, allusions

​Examples

​Language that departs from a literal use of words

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Figurative language makes meaning by asking the reader or listener to understand something by virtue of its relation to some other thing, action, or image.  It still has meaning.

​Definitions:

Figurative Language-

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Match

Match the following

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• The leaves danced in the breeze.

• The wall was hard.

• She was like a goddess.

Figurative Language

Figurative Language

Figurative language

Personification

Literal Language

Figurative Language Simile

• Figurative Language

• Figurative Language

• Figurative language

  Personification

• Literal Language

• Figurative Language Simile

Poll

Poll Question: Which do you feel you understand the least?

• Idioms

• Analogies

• I really don't get either.

• I feel really comfortable with both.

Example:

The words in an idiom can not be take literally.

The words may have a literal meaning but it also has another figurative meaning.​

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Figurative Language

Idioms- Definition: a group of words established by usage as having a meaning that has nothing to do with the individual words

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Don't get bent out of shape about it.

​This means don't get upset about it. It definitely does not really have anything to do with bending.​

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They don't really fall into any other group of figurative language. They aren't similes, metaphors, or allusions. A lot of times they have nothing to do with the literal words being written or spoken.

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​Usually has some historical origin often unknown

Important things to remember about Idioms.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an idiom?

• The lion roared like a siren.

• I represent like Juice WRLD.

• That's the last straw.

• Guillermo is a brick, when he lands those punches.

The last straw.

Meaning

It is an idiom, because it has nothing to do with straws. It means I will put up with nothing more, or I am running out of patience.

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Multiple Choice

What does the idiom That's the last straw mean?

• I have given you the last straw

• I am running out of patience.

• The soda is empty.

• Tie two gophers together by their tail, and you'll have gopher-chuks.

Multiple Select

Select only the idioms.

• A picture is worth a thousand words.

• Penny for your thoughts.

• I'm a peacock, you gotta let me fly!

• He got past the line by the skin of his teeth.

• Shine bright like a diamond!

A picture is worth a thousand words.

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​Penny for your thoughts.

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...by the skin of his teeth.​

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The non idioms:

​I'm a peacock... is a metaphor, because it is comparing the I and the peacock without using like or as.

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Shine bright like a diamond ... is a simile because it is comparing the implied you in the command to a diamond.

​The Idioms

Open Ended

What do you think A picture is worth a thousand words means? Explain why.

This is to that as that is to this!

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Analogies

Analogies

Analogies are best for describing two things and their relationships.

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Tom Brady is to football as Michael Jordan is to basketball.​

​--- We are comparing Tom and Michael, and how they are at their sports.

Game of thrones is to all TV shows as Genghis Kahn was to Ancient China, it totally ravages them!

---- We are comparing Game of Thrones to Genghis Kahn, because they are equal in dominance over their competition.

ELA

Tom Brady is a cheater and MJ is not though.

Fill in the Blank

Mr. Sullivan is to 7th grade English Class, as _______ is to 7th grade social studies class. Fill in the blank.

How things relate to each other.

Analogies help describe things by explaining their relationships and how they compare.

Its about:

As he is the teacher of social studies, I am one of the teachers of English.

Because:

Hopefully, you answered Mr. Sutton.

Did you know the river bluffs in Platte County were formed thousands of years ago by glaciers!

-Socrates

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“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

​Socrates wrote this sometime around 430 B.C. (2450 years ago!). I guess some things never change! Can you spot at least one piece of figurative language?