English 1H - Figurative Language

What are literary devices?

• Lies!

• Tools a writer uses to engage the reader

• Ways to make reading boring

• Tools to describe something as factual and true

Answer explanation

Figurative language describes something as different from its factual and true meaning.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Makes a comparison between two unrelated things by stating that one thing IS another thing, even though this is not LITERALLY true.

• Smilie

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Instead of stating that one this IS another thing, states that one thing is LIKE another thing.

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Personification

• Giving human qualities to non humans

• A phrase that has a meaning that is different from the literal meaning of the words.

• An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Onomatopoeia

• A word that imitates the sound of the object or action it refers to.

• When. you pronounce the word, it will mimic the sound of what it is describing.

• Makes a reference to a person, place, thing, book, or pop culture.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Allusion

• The beginning sound of words are repeated in close succession.

• Makes a reference to a person, place, thing, book, historical event, or pop culture.

• An excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact.

• A common expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from its literal meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

The beginning sound of words are repeated in close succession.

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Hyperbole

• A common expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from its literal meaning.

• The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas.

• An excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact.

• Language that brings to mind sensory impressions.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Idiom

• The use of words in which the spoken sound resembles the actual sound.

• A play on words that uses the similarity in sound between two words with distinctly different meanings.

• A common expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from its literal meaning.

• A fundamental, universal idea explored in a literary work.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

You are a sunflower is an example of...

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4