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Figurative Language

"Figurative language uses figures of speech (such as similes, metaphors and clichés) to suggest new pictures or images, or to create stronger effects." /www.wix.com, Oct 27, 2020.

" Figurative devices are certain words or phrases that add essence and clarity to poems and essays, and help paint a mental picture in the mind of the reader." by profound-answers.com March 1, 2021

​What is Figurative Language?

Multiple Choice

My backpack weighs a ton!

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

The evening melted away like a snowflake.

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

Poll

A _____is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things and uses the words “like” or “as” and they are commonly used in everyday communication. A _______ is used with the aim of sparking an interesting connection in the reader’s mind.

• simile

• metaphor

• pun

• personification

Multiple Choice

Slept like a log

Sly as a fox

Fits like a glove

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Functions of simile

"Similes allow writers to create imagery for readers through figurative language that might otherwise be limited by just descriptive language."

"It is a statement that demonstrates similarities between two people or things."

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Examples of similes:

• The boy was as brave as a lion in the jungle.

• The new teacher is as tall as a giraffe.

• The new neighbor is as curious as a cat; nothing escapes her attention.

• Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Sibilance in Shakespeare's Hamlet

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I don't wanna meet your kin

Make you spin or do you in

Or select you, or dissect you

Or inspect you, or reject you...

• sibilance

• simile

• hyperbole

• pun

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means the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of closely connected words in sentences or phrases.

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Effects of alliteration:

• It can create a rhythm when reading something aloud.

• It can make particular words or phrases memorable and catchy.

• It can help to focus the reader's attention on a particular section or phrase.

Multiple Choice

Bob brought the box of bricks to the basement.

• pun

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

Multiple Choice

All those moments will be lost in time, like… tears in rain. (Blade Runner)

• personification

• sibilance

• simile

• allitiration

Multiple Choice

"Double, double, toil and trouble."

• simile

• pun

• alliteration

• sibilance