The Landlady Figurative Language

Figurative Language

Words or phrases that are meaningful, but not literally true

Figurative Language is used to...

• Compare two unlike ideas to increase understanding of one

• Describe ideas sometimes difficult to understand

• Show a deeper emotion or connection

• Influence the audience

• Help make connections

• Make descriptions easier to visualize

• Elicit an emotion

Analyzing Figurative Language

• Explicit

  • What do the lines mean literally?

  • What image is created in your mind?

• Implicit

  • What do the lines imply, suggest, reveal, show…?

  • What do the images represent?

  • What ideas or feelings do they bring up?

  • What is the deeper meaning?

Match

Match the following types of figurative language to it's definition.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Comparing 2 things using "like" or "as"

Saying one thing is something else

Saying the same words again

Describing using the sensory details

• Comparing 2 things using "like" or "as"

• Saying one thing is something else

• Saying the same words again

• Describing using the sensory details

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following example:

My mother is as busy as a bee.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following example:

• The tall trees were curtains that surrounded us during our picnic.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following example:

• "And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously – oh, so cautiously – cautiously (for the hinges creaked)” from "The Tell-Tale Heart"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following example:

• She smelled the scent of sweet hibiscus wafting through the air, its tropical smell a reminder that she was on vacation in a beautiful place.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following example:

• My desk had a mountain of paperwork on it.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following example:

• I am so tired I will sleep like a baby.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following example:

• He sat quietly, letting her words soak in.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following example:

• Silence was broken by the peal of piano keys as Shannon began practicing her concerto.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following quote:

"The name itself conjured up images of watery cabbage, rapacious landladies, and a powerful smell of kippers in the living room. " (65-67)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following quote:

"the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks" (6-7)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following quote:

"He walked briskly down the street. Briskness, he had decided, was the one common characteristic of all successful businessmen. The big shots up at the head office were absolutely fantastically brisk all the time. " (23-27)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following quote:

"She was holding it well out in front of her, and rather high up, as though the tray were a pair of reins on a frisky horse." (227-229)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following quote:

"Green curtains (some sort of velvety material) were hanging on either side of the window." (43-45)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following quote:

"She looked exactly like the mother of one's best school friend welcoming one into the house to stay for the Christmas holidays." (123-125)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which type of figurative language is the following quote:

"The back was hard and cold, and when he pushed the hair to one side with his fingers, he could see the skin underneath, grayish, black and dry and perfectly preserved." (353-356)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Imagery