figurative speech
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FIGURATIVE SPEECH. FIGURE. a person in a painting. COMPARISON. sho wing the similarities between two different things. ^_^ You must be kidding !. SPEECH. WHAT IS FIGURATIVE SPEECH?. CORRECT! - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
FIGURATIVE SPEECHFIGURE
a person in a painting
CORRECT! You simply paint mental images in the reader’s mind by making comparisons
between two DIFFERENT things.
COMPARISON
showing the similarities between two different things
WHAT IS FIGURATIVE SPEECH?
SPEECH ^_^ You must be kidding!
WHAT WOULD YOU COMPARE SOMEONE TO IF THEY WERE...?
VERY
HUNGRYVERY KIND
VERY
SLOW
VERY
STRONG
He is hungry like an elephant.
She is like an angel.
He’s slow as an ox.
He is strong like a bull.
WHY WOULD YOU COMPARE A PERSON TO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING?
Figurative language
does not only point at
exactly sb or sth, but
instead forces the
reader to make an
IMAGINATIVE LEAP to a
much different thing
that has something in
common.
LEAPS WE HAVE MADE IN THE EXAMPLES
FROM
AN ANGEL
TO
A KINDHEARTED PERSON
AN ELEPHANTA HUNGRY PERSON
A JACKALAN
OPPORTUNIST
A ROBOTA
WORKAHOLIC
“Tom spoke like a
machine gun in class.”
COMPARISON
Tom is compared to a machine gun regarding the quick way he speaks.
IMAGINATIVE LEAP
We imagine his words like a volley of bullets and his mouth like a tommy gun.
This lets us imagine that he left almost no room for others to say much, or people had difficulty in following his words.
OTHERWISE
THERE WOULD
HAVE BEEN
BLOODSHED IN
CLASS!
FROM
TO
DELLA’S BEAUTIFU
L HAIR
RIPPLING AND SHINING
LIKE A CASCADE
WHEN DELLA
QUICKLY MOVES TO SHOW HER PRESENT
LIKE A SINGED
CAT
LEAPS IN THE GIFT OF THE MAGI
FROM
TO
DELLA’S HAIRLESS STATE
LIKE A CONEY ISLAND CHORUS
GIRLLIKE A
TRUANT SCHOOL
BOY
LEAPS IN THE GIFT OF THE MAGI
FROM
TO
JIM AND DELLA’S
GIFTS
THE GIFT OF THE MAGI
JIMS’S TRANSFIXE
D STATE
IMMOVABLE AS A
SETTER AT THE
SCENT OF A QUAIL
LEAPS IN THE GIFT OF THE MAGI
AS YOU SEE,... WE MAKE
LOTS OF IMAGINATIVE
LEAPS TO CREATE
MENTAL IMAGES IN THE
READER’S MIND, BUT
LITERATURE ISN’T ONLY
ALL ABOUT LEAPS. IF SO,
WE WOULD CALL IT
LEAPERATUR
E , NOT LITERATURE!...