Four Types of Figurative Language

Figurative language is...

• When you say something that is meant to be taken literally

• When you say something that means something different

• When you use specific words (diction) to paint a picture in the reader's head

• All of these are true

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Literal or figurative: She looks exactly like her twin sister

• Literal

• Figurative

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Literal or figurative: The sun smiled down on the picnic.

• Literal

• Figurative

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Literal or Figurative: She called me a million times last night.

• Literal

• Figurative

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Literal or Figurative: I'm so exhausted because I only got four hours of sleep last night.

• Literal

• Figurative

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Use FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE to express the following idea: I'm so exhausted because I only got four hours of sleep last night.

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Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• It is very dry in the desert

• My mouth was a desert

• She called me a million times last night

• None of these

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My mouth was a desert.

In this metaphor, what two things are being compared, and what is the effect of that comparison?

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Choose the statement that is NOT true about metaphors and similes

• They are both types of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

• They both make figurative comparisons between two unlike things

• Metaphors use "like" or "as" and similes don't

• Similes use "like" or "as" to make a figurative comparison

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Choose the correct simile

• Walt Frazier stood as tall as a library bookcase

• Walt Frazier stood as tall as a New York skyscraper

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