Figurative Language

Foil

• When one character in the story contrasts with another

• The romantic lead in a play

• Literally anything the author comes up with

• used to represent a stark contrast between what is said and what is meant

What is Imagery

• A comparison between 2 things

• Giving human characteristics to non-living things

• a cartoon effect

• words/phrases used to create "Mental Images"

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a simile?

• using because in a sentence

• A comparison using "such as, like or as"

• when one character in the story contrasts with another

• A smile that is misspelled.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Metaphor

• uses like or as to compare

• to conjecture

• Assigning the meaning, characteristic or identity of one thing to another dissimilar thing; comparison drawn between similarities of unlike things

• To impede

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is verbal irony?

• used to represent a stark contrast between what is said and what is meant

• using words/phrases to create mental images

• literal

• implied

Denotation

• literal

• implied

Connotation

• literal

• implied