Purpose of Figurative Language

What is the purpose of using figurative language in writing?

• To make the text more engaging and memorable

• To provide literal meanings to words

• To simplify complex ideas

• To create confusion in the reader's mind

What does figurative language add to a text?

• facts about the subject

• imagery to describe the subject

• To simplify complex ideas

• to make a text more complicated

Which of the following would be considered a simile?

• I'm a scaredy cat when it comes to scary movies!

• I fell as I was walking into the kitchen.

• The cat was as fierce as a tiger.

• I like hiking in the woods.

Which of the following would be an example of personification?

• He is a monster on the track!

• The flowers tickled my nose.

• The wind was very fast.

• He danced in the hallway.

Why do we use figurative language?

• To describe the situation.

• To express our feelings.

• To express our thoughts.

• All of the above.

Why do people use figurative language?

• To be grammatically correct.

• To make their writing interesting and visual, or to emphasize and idea and make a point.

• To structure their writing into paragraphs.

• Because it sounds nice in songs.

Why do authors use figurative language? What is the point? Answer in a complete sentence.

Why did the author include the following figurative language?

• To show the movement of the storm over the different cities in the area.

• To describe the beauty of the trees in the storm as they swayed.

• To show the intensity of the storm by describing the effect on sound and movement.

• To explain how the people felt scared when the storm was at its worst because of how loud it was.

Why did the author include the following figurative language?

• To explain how the author wish he had used the old controller instead.

• To illustrate how intensely his brother was staring which shows he was displeased at what he saw.

• To convey the difference between using the old controller in comparison to the new controller.

• To show how much his brother liked lasers as a superpower and his wish for wanting them.

Why did the author include the following figurative language?

The smells from the panaderia basically dragged me inside; the pan dulce was screaming my name!

• To emphasize the speaker's reluctance and contrast it with their desire for the baked goods.

• To show the superiority of pan dulce over conchas.

• To describe the feeling of the sugar rush from eating the pan dulce.

• To illustrate the smells using movement which shows how addictive sugar is.