Figurative Language

2.4 Figurative Language

By Kasey Pinney

Multiple Choice

What is a Hyperbole?

• the comparison of two unlike things without the use of like or as

• an exaggeration

• giving human qualities to something nonhuman

• comparison of thwo unlike things that uses like or as

Multiple Choice

What is a Similie?

• the comparison of 2 unlike things that use like or as

• an exaggeration

• the comparison of 2 unlike thing without the use of like or as

• giving human qualities to something nonhuman

Multiple Choice

What is a Metaphor?

• an exaggeration

• the comparison of two unlike things without the use of like or as

• the comparison of two unlike things that uses like or as

• giving human qualities to something nonhuman

Multiple Choice

What is Personification?

• an exaggeration

• giving human qualities to something non human

• the comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• the comparison of two unlike things without the use of like or as

​- William Shakespeare

"All the world's a stage,

and all the men and women merely players"​

Open Ended

What does "the men and women merely players" mean? What are players?

Multiple Choice

What figurative language is used in this line:

"sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines"

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

What figurative language is used in this line:

"your eternal summer shall not fade"

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

What figurative language is used in this line:

"death shall not brag"

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

They=seeds

Meadows=large fields of flowers

Underline negative words in your packet​

Important information

Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie,

Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand,

Forlorn as ashes, shrivelled, scentless, dry-

Meadows and gardens running through my hand. ​

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The Poem

from "The Seed-Shop"

Poll

Which of the following best describes the connotation of the meadows and gardens metaphor?

• The metaphor is neutral and simply completes the image developed in the first 3 lines of the poem

• The metaphor is positive and starkly contrasts with the description in the first 3 lines of the poem

• The metaphor is frightening and creates a jarring image that is completely disconnected from the earlier description

• The metaphor is negative and reveals that the speaker is confused or in conflict with her feelings about the seeds.

Open Ended

Which of the answer choices did you pick AND what words did you look at to decide that answer?

Poll

Did you enjoy this lesson?

• More than doing the lesson on paper

• The same as doing the lesson on paper

• Less than doing the lesson on paper

• There's a different way that we should do the lesson.