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The document discusses different types of figurative language including similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, proverbs, oxymorons, and understatements. It provides examples of each type of figurative language and encourages the reader to identify which type each example represents.

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Figurative-Language Power Point

The document discusses different types of figurative language including similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, proverbs, oxymorons, and understatements. It provides examples of each type of figurative language and encourages the reader to identify which type each example represents.

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Figurative Language

“Figuring it Out”
Figurative and Literal Language
Literally: words function exactly as defined
The car is blue.
He caught the football.
Figuratively: figure out what it means
I’ve got your back.
You’re a doll.
^Figures of Speech
Simile
Comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”

Examples
The metal twisted like a ribbon.
She is as sweet as candy.
Important!
Using “like” or “as” doesn’t make a simile.

A comparison must be made.

Not a Simile: I like pizza.

Simile: The moon is like a pizza.


Metaphor
Two things are compared without using
“like” or “as.”

Examples

All the world is a stage.


Men are dogs.
Her heart is stone.
Personification
Giving human traits to objects or ideas.

Examples

The sunlight danced.


Water on the lake shivers.
The streets are calling me.
Hyperbole
Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect.

Examples
I will love you forever.
My house is a million miles away.
She’d kill me.
Understatement
Expression with less strength than expected.
The opposite of hyperbole.

I’ll be there in one second.

This won’t hurt a bit.


Onomatopoeia
• A word that “makes” a sound
• SPLAT
• PING
• SLAM
• POP
• POW
Idiom
• A saying that isn’t meant to be taken
literally.
• Doesn’t “mean” what it says
• Don’t be a stick in the mud!
• You’re the apple of my eye.
• I have an ace up my sleeve.
Pun
• A form of “word play” in which
words have a double meaning.
• I wondered why the baseball
was getting bigger and then it
hit me.
• I’m reading a book about anti-
gravity. It’s impossible to put it
down.
• I was going to look for my
missing watch, but I didn’t
have the time.
Proverb
• A figurative saying in which a bit of
“wisdom” is given.
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away
• The early bird catches the worm
Oxymoron
• When two words are put together that
contradict each other. “Opposites”
• Jumbo Shrimp
• Pretty Ugly
• Freezer Burn
Quiz
On a separate sheet of paper…
1. I will put an example of figurative
language on the board.
2. You will write whether it is an simile,
metaphor, personification, hyperbole,
pun, proverb, idiom, onomatopoeia,
oxymoron or understatement.
3. You can use your notes.
1

He drew a line as straight as an arrow.


2

Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn


are kings and queens.
3

Can I see you for a second?


4

The sun was beating down on me.


5

A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.


6
I'd rather take baths
with a man-eating shark,
or wrestle a lion
alone in the dark,
eat spinach and liver,
pet ten porcupines,
than tackle the homework,
my teacher assigns.
7
Ravenous and savage
from its long
polar journey,

the North Wind

is searching
for food—
8
Dinner is on the house.
9

Can I have one of your chips?


10
Don’t bit the hand that feeds you.
11.
• The clouds smiled down at me.
12.
• SPLAT!
13.
• She is as sweet as candy
14.
• I could sleep forever!
15.
• He drove his expensive car into a tree and
found out how the Mercedes bends
16.
• I used to have a fear of hurdles, but I got
over it
17.
• The wheat field was a sea of gold.
18.
• The streets called to him.
19.
• POP!
20.
• She was dressed to the nines.
21.
• The early bird catches the worm.
22.
• Old news
23.
• Your face is killing me!
24.
• She was as white as a ghost.
25.
• She has a skeleton in her closet.

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