Figurative Language

Figurative Language Review

Match

Pre-Lesson Knowledge Check: Match the Figurative Language with its definition.

• Comparison of two unlike things USING LIKE OR AS

• Comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as

• Giving human traits to inanimate objects

• an extreme exaggeration for effect

• a brief reference to an important person, place, event, or literary work

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Hyperbole

Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• compares unlike things

• ​USES like or as

  • Juliet is​ like the sun.

​Simile

• compares unlike things

• DOESN'T use like or as

• usually states one thing is something else

  • ex) Juliet is the sun.

​Metaphor

Metaphor VS Simile

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Is this statement a metaphor or simile? My dog, Goose, is like a good soldier, because he listens well.

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Is this statement a metaphor or simile? This pizza is fire!

Open Ended

Give an example of a metaphor.

Open Ended

Give an example of a simile.

Personification

• Gives human qualities to inanimate (non-living) things

  • The tree branches waved at me through the car window.

    • This is personification, because trees cannot actually wave.

Hyperbole

• An extreme exaggeration for effect

  • ​My backpack weighs a ton.

    • Obviously your backpack doesn't way 2,000 pounds.

Allusion

• A brief reference to an important person, place, event, or literary work

  • I felt like I must have spidey senses, as I anticipated the trouble brewing in the hallway.

    • This is a reference to Spider-Man.

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Is this statement an example of personification, hyperbole, or allusion? Chocolate cake is my Achilles' heel.

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Is this statement an example of personification, hyperbole, or allusion? The wind howled on the cold and blustery day.

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Is this statement an example of personification, hyperbole, or allusion? I'll turn into a pumpkin if I don't get back home in time.

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Is this statement an example of personification, hyperbole, or allusion? Their smile was a mile wide.

Open Ended

Give an example of a hyperbole.

Open Ended

Give an example of personification.

Open Ended

Give an example of an allusion. (You might need to Google this one.)

Idiom

• A phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative meaning

  • It's raining cats and dogs out there!

    • This phrase means it is raining hard, not that dogs and cats are falling from the sky.

Draw

Draw something to represent the idea of the idiom COUCH POTATO

Draw

Google an idiom and draw it. We will use some of these drawings in a class activity.

Match

Post-Lesson Knowledge Check: Match the Figurative Language with its definition.

• Comparison of two unlike things USING LIKE OR AS

• Comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as

• Giving human traits to inanimate objects

• an extreme exaggeration for effect

• a brief reference to an important person, place, event, or literary work

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Hyperbole

Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Allusion