Figurative Language

Terms to know

• “It pricks like a thorn.”• “You are as sweet as pie.”• Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?

Simile

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Simile: A comparison using “like” or “as”

• “It is the east, & Juliet is the sun.”

• Your room is a pigsty.• Baby you’re a firework!

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Metaphor

Metaphor: a comparison of two unlike things not using “like” or “as”

• “The grey eyed morn smiles on the frowning night" • The waffle jumped up out of the toaster.• The wind hissed.

Personification

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Personification: giving an inanimate object, animal, or idea human qualities

• The Prince warns of the future consequences of starting anymore trouble in the city streets: “Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace"

Foreshadowing

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Foreshadowing: a warning or hint of a future event

• Tone in news articles: objective.• Tone in “The Office”: humorous, mocking, sarcastic, etc.

Tone

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Tone: the author’s attitude toward a subject

Oxymoron

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•“O, loving hate!”•“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”

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Oxymoron: a group of words that are self-contradicting

Juliet: Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet. 

Romeo (Aside) : Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this? Juliet: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague…"

Aside

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Aside: an often short remark made by a character that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by other characters in the play

• Romeo’s monologue(Act 2 scene 2, lines 1-26)

• Juliet’s monologue(Act 3 scene 2, lines 1-37)Guesses!?

Monologue

Monologue: an extended speech by one character to other characters, often telling a story or explaining something

• “The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars”• It’s raining cats

and dogs!• I’m so hungry I

could eat a horse.

Hyperbole

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Hyperbole: exaggerated statements that are not meant to be taken literally

Soliloquy

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Soliloquy: a long speech in which a character talks to him or herself and reveals his/her inner thoughts

• “You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead”• The best way to

communicate with a fish is to drop it a line.

Pun

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Pun: a play on words that is a humorous way of using a word or phrase so that more than one meaning is suggested

• From forth the fatal loins of these two foes• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Alliteration

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Alliteration: the repetition of the same/very similar consonant sounds usually at the beginning of words (typically in the same line of poetry or same sentence)

Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our SCENE

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands UNCLEAN

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their LIFE

Whose misadventured piteous o'erthrow do with their deaths bury their parents' STRIFE

End Rhyme

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End Rhyme: a rhyme at the end of a line rather than in the middle of the line