figurative language: words that mean more than what they say
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Figurative Language: Words that Mean More than What They Say. Figurative Language. Literal Meaning: what a word would exactly mean in the dictionary. Also known as Denotation. Figurative Meaning: Like a figure (or picture), the symbolic or associated meaning. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Figurative Figurative Language:Language:
Words that Words that Mean More Mean More than What than What They SayThey Say
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Figurative LanguageFigurative LanguageLiteral Literal Meaning:Meaning:what a word what a word would exactly would exactly mean in the mean in the dictionarydictionary
Also known asAlso known as Denotation Denotation
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Figurative Figurative Meaning:Meaning:
Like a figure (or Like a figure (or picture), the symbolic picture), the symbolic or associated meaningor associated meaning
Also known asAlso known as Connotation Connotation
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Heart
Literal Meaning -
Figurative Meaning -
the main organ that pumps blood in the circulatory system
love, affection, Valentine’s Day,center of attention
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Figurative Figurative Language:Language:
1.1. MetaphorMetaphor2.2. SimileSimile3.3. HyperboleHyperbole4.4. SymbolSymbol5.5. PersonificationPersonification6.6. RepetitionRepetition7.7. AlliterationAlliteration8.8. Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia 9.9. ImageryImagery
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MetaphorA direct comparison of two things
(not using “like” or “as”)
Ex. After lifting weights, I am an ogre.
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SimileComparing two things using “like”
or “as”
Ex. She sings like an angel.
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HyperboleAn exaggeration/
extended metaphor
Ex. I'm drowning in money.
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Symbol(ism)
+ =
A person, place, object or action that stands for something
beyond itself
Romance added to relationships results in love.
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Personification
Giving human qualities to an animal, object or idea
Ex. I can’t type my report, the computer is sick.
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Repetition
• Repeating a word, phrase, symbol, or stanza.• A technique the author uses to emphasize the
importance of what is being said.
“And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.” -Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
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Alliteration
• The Repetition of consonant sounds (not vowels) at the beginning of words in a line or a stanza. (The same sound at the start of words.)
• Ex. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.”- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”
- Why do authors use alliteration?
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Onomatopoeia• The use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning.
Also, it is a sound spelled out.
“The only other sounds the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.”
- Robert Frostor
“Buzz, Zoom, Crash!”
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• Imagery is words or phrases that appeal to the five senses.
• Imagery helps your writing to come alive for the reader.• Example:
“The warm brownies melted in my mouth and tasted like happiness.”
Imagery
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Figurative Figurative Language:Language:
•Makes narrative Makes narrative writing more writing more interestinginteresting•Appeals to senses, Appeals to senses, helps reader feel morehelps reader feel more•Leads to deeper levels Leads to deeper levels of meaningof meaning