figurative language by alejandro fonseca. definitions simile: a comparison between two or more...

Figurative Language

By Alejandro Fonseca

Definitions

• Simile: a comparison between two or more things using the words like or as.

• Metaphor: A comparison between two or more things using the words like or as.Hyperbole: An extreme exaggeration.

• Personification: Giving human qualities to non-human.• Allusion: Reference to a historical place, event,, and person.• Symbolism: One thing represents another.• Imagery: A mental picture that uses the five senses.

Simile

• The sun is like a yellow ball of fire in the sky.• It is comparing the sun to the color yellow.• It means that sun is a ball of fire.

Metaphor

• The policeman let him off with a yellow card.• It is compare the police with a referee.• He is a giving warning.

Personification

• Necklace is a friend.• It is a personification because necklace is a

thing and necklace cannot be a friend.• It is mean the necklace is to close to me.

Allusion

• She looked as beautiful as Juliet on her way home.

• This is a allusion because is comparing a girl to Juliet, which is a character of play.

• It really means that she was really beautiful.

Symbolism

• A cross represent religion.• It is a symbolism because represent the cross

where God was crucify.• Its represent religion.

Imagery

• I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

• It is a Imagery because you can see the author dancing the daffodils.

Practice• Caged Bird

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.

Answers

• Personification: His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream.

• Imagery: The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.

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