Figurative language U4

Figurative language

Figurative language

​Figurative language creates comparisons by linking the senses and the concrete to abstract ideas. Words or phrases are used in a non-literal way for particular effect, for example simile, metaphor, personification.

Figurative language

​A simile is a figure of speech that compares two usually dissimilar things. The comparison uses like, as or as if.

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He is as good as gold

Figurative language

​A metaphor makes a resemblance between one thing and another declared by suggesting that one thing is another. Metaphors are common in spoken and written language.

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My fingers are ice​

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Figurative language

​A personification is a figure of speech which attributes human characteristics to abstractions such as love or things.

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The trees sighed and moaned in the wind

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Figurative language

​Listen to 4 sentences. In each sentence you are going to listen the following phraes.

• ​pull it off

• ​in the dark

• ​a hot topic

• ​makes it

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Multiple Choice

Sentence 1: Pull it off

• To succeed in do something

• To separate and object from another object

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Sentence 2: in the dark

• Without light

• Without knowledge

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Sentence 3: a hot topic

• A subject related to heat

• A new and exciting subject

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Sentence 4: makes it

• Succeeds at something

• Creates something

Word Power

Word Power: Dark

Search online for the meaning of the following expressions:

• ​a short in the dark

• ​a dark horse

• ​pitch dark

• ​dark side (of someone or something)

Multiple Choice

A dark horse means

• Completely dark

• In a state of ignorance

• A candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.

• An attempt that has little chance for success

• The negative, troubled, or antagonistic part of someone or something that is usually kept concealed

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Dark side means

• Completely dark

• In a state of ignorance

• The negative, troubled, or antagonistic part of someone or something that is usually kept concealed

• An attempt that has little chance for success

• A candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.

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A short in the dark means

• The negative, troubled, or antagonistic part of someone or something that is usually kept concealed

• An attempt that has little chance for success

• In a state of ignorance

• A candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.

• Completely dark

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Pitch dark means

• The negative, troubled, or antagonistic part of someone or something that is usually kept concealed

• An attempt that has little chance for success

• In a state of ignorance

• A candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.

• Completely dark

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In the dark means

• The negative, troubled, or antagonistic part of someone or something that is usually kept concealed

• In a state of ignorance

• An attempt that has little chance for success

• A candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.

• Completely dark