Playing with Words: The Art and Mystery of Figurative Language

Figurative

Language

Playing with Words: The Art and Mystery of Figurative Language

Vocabulary List for today:

​Vocabulary Reference List

​Figurative language is a way of using words to express ideas in a more creative and imaginative way. We use it to describe something by comparing it to something else, rather than saying it directly. Literal language, on the other hand, is when we say exactly what we mean.

​When we say 'It's raining cats and dogs,' we are using figurative language because we don't literally mean that cats and dogs are falling from the sky.

​A metaphor is a comparison of two things without using like or as

​When we want to give the qualities of one thing to something else, we compare it to our noun. E.g. If I wanted to say that someone ran fast, what has that quality that I can compare it to?

​Metaphor

​The boy was a Cheetah on the track.

My dad is a couch potato.

Multiple Choice

Is this a metaphor?

That show is trash!

• yes

• no

​A Simile is a comparison of two things using like or as

​When we want to give the qualities of one thing to something else, we compare it to our noun. E.g. If I wanted to say that someone ran fast, what has that quality that I can compare it to?

Simile

​The boy was as fast as a Cheetah on the track.

My dad is like a couch potato.

Multiple Choice

Is this a simile?

That show is as good as trash!

• yes

• no

​Personification is when we give human qualities, actions or human form to something that isn't human or may not even have a form.

Personification

Anger pushed me forward

The sun smiled down on us

Multiple Choice

Is this personification?

The tree danced in the wind

• yes

• no

It is a phrase or expression that has a meaning that cannot be understood from the literal definition of the words used. that has developed over time and is unique to the language and culture in which they are used.

Idiom

Don't count your chickens before they've hatched

Kick the bucket

Break a leg

Multiple Choice

Is this an idiom?

The pizza will be ready at 6:30 tonight

• yes

• no

Is a figure of speech in which extreme exaggeration is used to emphasize or heighten the impact of a statement. It can be used to make a statement sound more important, or to create emphasis, humor, or a sense of drama.

Hyperbole

I didn't even get a second of rest last night

We've been driving for an eternity

I am freezing to death here!

Multiple Choice

Is this Hyperbole?

It took me a lifetime to finish the homework

• yes

• no

Is a literary technique in which the same consonant sound is repeated at the beginning of two or more words in close proximity

Alliteration

She sells seashells by the seashore

Multiple Choice

Is this Alliteration?

I went into the store and bought butchered beef for brisket.

• yes

• no

A device in which there is a contrast or discrepancy between what is expected or intended and what actually occurs.

Irony

Multiple Choice

Is this irony?

Blaze destroys fire station

• yes

• no

Onomatopoeia refers to words that imitate or suggest the sound they describe

Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Is this an Onomatopoeia?

The bee flew past me

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

Is this an Onomatopoeia?

The bee buzzed past me

• yes

• no

Vocabulary List for today:

​Vocabulary Reference List

Multiple Choice

"Baby, you're a firework!"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Irony

Multiple Choice

"Boom, clap!"

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Irony

Multiple Choice

"Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert youNever gonna make you cry. Never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you"

• Personification

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"I have died everyday waiting for you. Darling don't be afraid i have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more"

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"and I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket. But I've got to get a move on with my life. It's time to be a big girl now."

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"Little old lady got mutilated late last night. Werewolves of London again."

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corned moon? Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?"

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"It's like rain on your wedding day. It's a free ride when you've already paid. It's the good advice that you just can't take."

• Personification

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more, just to be the man who walked a 1000 miles to fall down at your door."

• Personification

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street. Faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly. Loving him is like trying to change your mind. Once you're already flying through the free fallLike the colours in autumn, so bright, just before they lose it all."

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"My heart's a stereo. It beats for you, so listen close. Hear my thoughts in every note. Make me your radio"

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole