Figurative Language 11-12

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What is Figurative Language?

• used to mean exactly what is written.

• the use of words in a way that deviates from the conventional order and meaning in order to convey a complicated meaning, colorful writing, clarity, or evocative comparison.

• uses the actual meanings of words or phrases in very straightforward and to the point.

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What is Literal Language?

• uses different figures of speech to make the content more persuasive or to have a greater impact.

• uses figures of speech such as metaphors, similes or an oxymoron to make the message more meaningful.

• precise and often tells the reader exactly the point.

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It is a use of words that have the same or very similar vowel sounds near one another.

• Alliteration

• Apostrophe

• Assonance

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A figure of speech that gives human traits to something that is not a person. The practice of representing an inmate object or an abstract idea as a person, and endowing it with human traits.

• Apostrophe

• Personification

• Simile

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A word or phrase for one thing that is used in place of another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar. : “ Like” and “as” is not used.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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A term which uses an exaggeration to add a more dramatic meaning to the sentence.

• Hyperbole

• Pun

• Paradox

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When two words in a phrase contradicted one another. Paired words with contradicting meaning.

• Paradox

• Synecdoche

• Oxymoron

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It is the use of words that resemble the sounds associated with the objects or actions they prefer to.

• Metonymy

• Onomatopoeia

• Synecdoche

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Is a statement which contradict itself. Using contradicting terms to make a point. A combination of words or statements that makes the reader pause to think deeper.

• Paradox

• Pun

• Assonance

It is a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.

• Euphemism

• Allusion

• Irony