Interpreting Figurative Language

Figurative Language

by Faye Perkins

Multiple Choice

"the negative or positive feelings associated with a word" is ...

Preview Question

• connotation

• denotation

• figurative language

• technical term

​Standard

​L.10.5a

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​Interpret figures of speech (e.g., euphemism, oxymoron) incontext and analyze their role in the text.

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​Prereq: Euphemisms are words or phrases that are inoffensive or kinder.

passed away/died....porcelain throne/toilet...number 1 or number 2

​An oxymoron uses contradictory words placed together for emphasis.

​small crowd....pretty ugly....awfully good...living dead

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​Idioms are expressions tha do not mean what they literally say.

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​It ain't over til the fat lasy sings

​Learning Targets

​Students should be able to:

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• ​Recognize a figure of speech and explain its effect on the piece of writing.

• ​Evaluate the use of figures of speech in writing and evaluated whether the figure of speech achieves the author's purpose.

​Vocabulary

• ​Figurative Language

• ​Euphemism

• ​Oxymoron

• ​idiom

• ​metaphor

• ​simile

• ​hyperbole

• ​juxaposition

Multiple Choice

What is a language that uses words in ways that shift from their literal interpretation to achieve a more complex or powerful effect

• Figurative Language

• Literal Language

• Imagery

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

What makes a comparison between two unrelated things stating that one thing is like another thing.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Irony

Multiple Choice

What is an intentional exaggeration of the truth, used to emphasize the importance of something or to create a comic effect

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Figurative Language

Multiple Choice

What takes non-human things and describes them as having human attributes

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Pun

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unrelated things by stating that one thing is another thing

• Figurative Language

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

an expression that means something totally different than the the literal interpretation of its words would suggest

• literal language

• idiom

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

means exactly what it says

• literal language

• figurative language

• irony

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

• juxtaposition

• imagery

• figurative language

• simile

Multiple Choice

What is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that ends up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated

• Pun

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Figurative Language