FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Take notes on your sheet

METAPHOR• Comparing two things without using “like”

or “as”

• Example: Emily is a rose

• ELVIS: You ain’t nothing but a hound dog• AC/DC: She was a fast machine• Goo Goo Dolls: You’re the closest to Heaven

I’ll ever be

Coffee house,

much??

Coffee house,

much??

SIMILE

• Comparing two things using “like” or “as”

• Example: She is as quiet as a mouse

• Michael Jackson: She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene

• Pink Floyd: There’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky

PERSONIFICATION

• Giving human-like qualities to objects or things that aren’t alive.

• Example: The moon smiled down at me.

• Saves the Day: As I'm talking my words slip to the floor and they crawl through your legs and slide under the back door

IDIOM

• Expression we use every day that aren’t meant to be taken literally

• Examples: – Boy, it’s raining cats and dogs!– He’s feeling under the weather– That test was a piece of cake– I’ll give him a taste of his own medicine

ONOMATOPOEIA

• When the word is spelled the way it sounds

– Example: sploosh, ker-pow, bam!

– Most Black Eyed Peas Songs • How the beat bang, Boom Boom Pow

• “Like a G6 – Slizzard”

ALLITERATION

• When the beginning of many words in a row sound the same

– The purple and pink pig put pennies in the pool

– Better be a better boy before you botherbetting that you'll bring her back home again.

HYPERBOLE

• A big exaggeration

I’d walk a million miles to get to you by Vanessa Carlton

IRONY

• Saying one thing but meaning another

– Sarcasm

– When deaf Ludwig Beethoven published another great symphony.

FORESHADOWING

• Giving hints of something that’s about to happen

• I was about to walk around the corner when I heard a loud scream (what’s he going to see when he turns the corner?!)

IMAGERY

• Painting a picture using words

The dog barked vs.

As the sun was setting, the fluffy dog cried aloud into the deep hollows of the house

** 5 senses

Three Doors Down: I left my body lying somewhere in the universe in the sands of time.

Oxymoron

• Combination of words that seem contradictory

• Examples: Jumbo shrimp, living dead, deafening silence, bitter sweet, serious joke