Literary Language

Literary language: words that do not deviate from their defined meaning.

Examples: ◦ - The podium is brown. ◦ -We drove to school this morning. ◦ - The family enjoyed living in the big red

house.

Figurative LanguageFigurative language: words, and

groups of words, that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component words.

Types:-Simile-Metaphor-Personification-Idiom-Hyperbole

Figurative Language

Simile: A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox, Life is like…)

Metaphor: a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common (e.g., The goalkeeper was a rock, The car was a speeding bullet)

Figurative Language

Personification: a figure of speech when an object is giving human qualities. (e.g., Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie, The wind whistled and groaned)

Idiom: A set expression of two or more words that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words. (e.g., I worked the graveyard shift last night, We will find the treasure if we play our cards right)

Figurative Language

Hyperbole: A figure of speech where a statement is an obvious and intentional exaggeration.

(e.g., I was so hungry, I could of ate a horse!; He ran like greased lightning.)

Poetry Terms

Repetition: refers to the repeating of lines in poetry

Example:“I looked upon the rotting sea,

And drew my eyes away;I looked upon the rotting deck,And there the dead men lay.”

-Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge

Poetry Terms

Refrain: a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza

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Writing AssignmentOn a piece of notebook paper (not in

your journal), describe the object you sketched during your warm up.

MUST INCLUDE AN EXAMPLE OF 3 OUT OF THE 5 TYPES OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE WE DISCUSSED (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Idiom, and Hyperbole) Can be any 3.

Turn into your class’s tray on your way out.

Example of Refrain“It was not I that ate the pie”Bobby said that he would give me his right shoe

For a piece of the sweet treatAnd I thought that it would be nice to have another shoeBut no,It was not I that ate that pie

Jimmy caught a sniff while sneaking through our yard He would give me a fistful of mice for just one sliceI told him I needed a left shoe,But no,It was not I that ate that pie

Then Mary walked by my door,I told her she could test the restFor the the smallest peck,But no,It was not I that ate that pie.